Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300051834
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: August 1879-September 1882
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300051834
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers
Author: James KarmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804781729
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1409
Book Description
The 1930s marked a turning point for the world. Scientific and technological revolutions, economic and social upheavals, and the outbreak of war changed the course of history. The 1930s also marked a turning point for Robinson Jeffers, both in his career as a poet and in his private life. The letters collected in this second volume of annotated correspondence document Jeffers' rising fame as a poet, his controversial response to the turmoil of his time, his struggles as a writer, the growth and maturation of his twin sons, and the network of friends and acquaintances that surrounded him. The letters also provide an intimate portrait of Jeffers' relationship to his wife Una—including a full account of the 1938 crisis at Mabel Dodge Luhan's home in Taos, New Mexico that nearly destroyed their marriage.
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
Author: Christine DeVinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317087305
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
With cheaper publishing costs and the explosion of periodical publishing, the influence of New World travel narratives was greater during the nineteenth century than ever before, as they offered an understanding not only of America through British eyes, but also a lens though which nineteenth-century Britain could view itself. Despite the differences in purpose and method, the writers and artists discussed in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World-from Fanny Wright arriving in America in 1818 to the return of Henry James in 1904, and including Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau, and Robert Louis Stevenson among others, as well as artists such as Eyre Crowe-all contributed to the continued building of America as a construct for audiences at home. These travelers' stories and images thus presented an idea of America over which Britons could crow about their own supposed sophistication, and a democratic model through which to posit their own future, all of which suggests the importance of transatlantic travel writing and the ’idea of America’ to nineteenth-century Britain.
The Emblem
Author: John ManningPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861895925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The emblem, an image accompanied by a motto and a verse or short prose passage, is both art and literature: in the emblem tradition, the image presents a story – often with pictorial symbols – and the verse below it drives home the picture-story's moral instruction. It is one of the most fascinating, and enduring, art forms in Western culture. John Manning's book charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixteenth century, and then through its various reinventions to the present day. The seventeenth century saw the development of new emblematic forms and sub-genres, and the sharpening of the form for the purpose of social satire. When the Jesuits appropriated the emblem, producing enormous quantities of material, a further dimension of moral seriousness was introduced, alongside a concentration of emblematic "wit". The emblem later came to be directed increasingly at young people and children; in particular, William Blake adopted a fresh attitude towards ideas of the child and childishness. Since then, reprints of 17th-century emblem books have been produced with new plates, and writers and artists from Robert Louis Stevenson to Ian Hamilton Finlay have used emblems in new and subversive ways.
Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Millions of readers throughout the world continue to enjoy Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other books by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). A celebrated author in many different fields of literature, Stevenson is also recognized as a highly engaging and prolific correspondent: he penned over 2,800 letters, which are contained in eight critically acclaimed volumes published by Yale University Press. In this book, 317 of Stevenson's most interesting and revealing letters represent each stage of his mature life. With a linking narrative and full annotation, Ernest Mehew sets the letters in the context of Stevenson's remarkable life. Beginning with the days of his troubled youth in Edinburgh, Stevenson's letters go on to tell of his love for Frances Sitwell, a beautiful, older married woman; a reckless journey to California in pursuit of Fanny Osbourne, the woman who became his wife; their worldwide but vain search for a healthy place to live; and a period of adventure in the South Seas, where Stevenson wrote some of his best work and became passionately involved in Samoan life. The letters show the author's zest for living despite daunting illnesses, his struggles with his own writing, his literary tastes, and his affection for his friends. Stevenson writes in many moods, ranging from playful and witty to deeply serious. Better than any biography ever could, these letters in Stevenson's own words tell the real story of his life.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cassette Books
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically HandicappedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Little Land
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781609731533
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an illustrated version of the familiar poem describing a child's dream world called the Land of Play.
Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History
Author: N.C. Wyeth
Author: David MichaelisPublisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
David Michaelis presents a fully realized portrait of a huge-spirited, deeply complicated man, a nurturing father, and an artist whose theme was conflict. And we see, through three Wyeth generations, a charismatic family and an idyllic America that was fast vanishing. of color illustrations. 94 b&w illustrations.