Author: John CollardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Life, and Extraordinary Adventures, of James Molesworth Hobart
Author: John CollardThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of James Molesworth Hobart, Alias Henry Griffin
Author: John CollardThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of James Molesworth Hobart
Author: Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters
Author: William D. BrewerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113738719X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.
The Life ... of I. M. Hobart, Alias H. Griffin, Alias Lord Massey, the New Market Duke of Ormond, Etc. By N. D.
Author: N. DRALLOC (pseud. [i.e. John Collard.])Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Authentic Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of James Molesworth Hobart
Author: John CollardA Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)
Author: Montague SummersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375048144X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Beau Monde
Author: Hannah GreigPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191664006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in 18th-century London Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society—the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone but by the more nebulous qualification of metropolitan 'fashion'. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial; the right address, the right dinner guests, the right possessions, the right jewels, the right seat at the opera. The Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes. From brash displays of diamond jewellery to the subtle complexities of political intrigue, we see how membership of the new elite was won, maintained—and sometimes lost. On the way, we meet a rich and colourful cast of characters, from the newly ennobled peer learning the ropes and the imposter trying to gain entry by means of clever fakery, to the exile banned for sexual indiscretion. Above all, as the story unfolds, we learn that being a Fashionable was about far more than simply being 'modish'. By the end of the century, it had become nothing less than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.
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