Author: Aubrey De VerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
St. Thomas of Canterbury
Author: Aubrey De VereSt. Thomas of Canterbury
Author: Aubrey De VereSt. Thomas of Canterbury. A Dramatic Poem
Author: Aubrey De VerePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385503035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY A DRAM
Author: Aubrey 1814-1902 De VerePublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372826795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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The Corpse as Text
Author: Thea TomainiPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph. This study explores the cooperation of ideology and aesthetic, the paradox of allure and revulsion, and the uncanny attraction to death. In each case there is a desire for the dead to speak in a contemporary voice; each historical personage becomes symbolic of larger aspects of the contemporary culture. The discourse of the noble body in death is reconfigured to validate English nationalist ideals and to establish the past as a Golden Era of unimpeachable superiority. It was not enough simply to study the lives and deaths of historical figures. Itwas necessary to disinter the corpses, engage physically with the dead, and experience the discourse of validation. THEA TOMAINI is Associate Professor of English (Teaching) at the University of Southern California.
Latter-day Teachers. Six Lectures
Author: Richard Acland ArmstrongPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385467926
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Catholic World
Author: Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England
Author: Jan-Melissa SchrammPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192560549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.
Prayers with a Discourse on Prayer
Author: George DawsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338539869X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The New Politicus
Author: Francis Reynolds Yonge RadcliffePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385454859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.