Author: Henry Martin SaundersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Crimps, Or the Death of Poor Howe
Author: Henry Martin SaundersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v.2 and 3. Additions and corrections to v.2 and 3
Author: David Erskine BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica, Or a Companion to the Playhouse
Author: Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland
Author: Philip ConnellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521880122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Red Round Globe Hot Burning
Author: Peter LinebaughPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383036
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His Black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that “the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion.” And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocene’s birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production, Red Round Globe Hot Burning throws readers into the pivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes. Peter Linebaugh’s extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know would dispossess people around the world through today. Red Round Globe Hot Burning is the culmination of a lifetime of research—encapsulated through an epic tale of love.
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400867843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures on Revealed Religion, Its Corruption, and Its Political Views" and "Lecture on the Slave-Trade." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Naval Engagements
Author: Timothy JenksPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191516414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural history of national identity, a social history of naval commemoration, and a political history of struggles over patriotism. Examining the place that naval symbols occupied in British wartime political culture, Timothy Jenks argues that these were more relevant to patriotic discourse than the more commonly explored 'apotheosis' of the Hanoverian monarchs. He establishes the centrality of public images of admirals to the 'victory culture' and political experience of the day, tracing efforts by groups across the political spectrum to invest these figures with appropriate political capital and contemporary meaning. He engages with arguments concerning popular patriotism and the relative cohesiveness of British society. Most importantly, the book establishes the centrality of naval symbolism to the political culture of Georgian Britain. At the same time, it reveals the social practices and discourses that consistently interacted to delimit and restrain a variety of projects ostensibly designed to foster patriotism and national identity. Patriotism was contested, this study argues, rather than consensual, and British national identity in the period was contingent, an ambivalence crucial to the manner in which naval symbols functioned.
Biographia Dramatica; Or A Companion To The Playhouse
Author: David Erskine BakerThe Spirit of Despotism
Author: John BarrellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199281203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
How was the social and cultural life of Britain affected by the fear that the French Revolution would spread across the channel? In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously beenthought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Activities and spaces which had previously been regarded as 'outside' politics suddenly no longer seemed to be so, and the fear of revolution produced a culture of surveillance and suspicion which penetrated every aspect of private life. Drawing on an unusually widerange of sources, including novels, poems, plays, newspapers, debates in parliament, trials, political pamphlets, and caricatures, The Spirit of Despotism focuses on a number of examples of such invasions of privacy. It shows how the culture of suspicion affected how people spoke and behaved in London coffee-houses; how it influenced attitudes to the king's behaviour in private, especially during his summer holidays in Weymouth; how it infiltrated the country cottage, previouslyidealized as a protected haven of peace and retirement from political life; and how it influenced the fashion of the period, so that even the way people chose to style their hair came to be seen as a political issue.
Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v. 2 and 3. Additions and correction to v. 2 and 3
Author: David Erskine BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description