The Confessions of a Scribbler
Author : Arthur Hamilton
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Arthur Hamilton
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1880
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1896
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Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014191310X
Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Émile. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others.
Author : Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226261220
Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, from intellectuals to factory workers, to assume the identity of "invalid." Whether they suffered from a temporary condition or an incurable disease, many wrote about their experiences, leaving behind an astonishingly rich and varied record of disability in Victorian Britain. Using an array of primary sources, Maria Frawley here constructs a cultural history of invalidism. She describes the ways that Evangelicalism, industrialization, and changing patterns of doctor/patient relationships all converged to allow a culture of invalidism to flourish, and explores what it meant for a person to be designated—or to deem oneself—an invalid. Highlighting how different types of invalids developed distinct rhetorical strategies, her absorbing account reveals that, contrary to popular belief, many of the period's most prominent and prolific invalids were men, while many women found invalidism an unexpected opportunity for authority. In uncovering the wide range of cultural and social responses to notions of incapacity, Frawley sheds light on our own historical moment, similarly fraught with equally complicated attitudes toward mental and physical disorder.
Author : Eric Johns
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1326055135
Until he won a short story competition with a prize of £50,000, E. Rick Jones didn't have any problems or at least no more than any other neurotic writer who spent most of his life in his writing shed at the end of his garden. The problem was that in order to claim the prize Rick was required to be the British representative at the Digitalquill Freedom Conference in Argentina. Unfortunately, certain ruthless people (who denied they had anything to do with MI6) thought that he was not the right person to represent his country and were happy to use threats and violence to convince him of this. However, there was another group of equally ruthless people who believed it was in his country's interest for him to go to S. America which was the last place he wanted to go because there was a frightening amount of magic realism there and that was one genre of writing he couldn't stand. Both groups regarded Rick as expendable. All he wanted was his shed.
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
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Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Harry Furniss
Publisher : W. Briggs
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Artists Correspondence
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Author : Harry Furniss
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Harry Furniss illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as the Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno. Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors. His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and an additional volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Confessions of My Childhood – and After_x000D_ Bohemian Confessions_x000D_ My Confessions as a Special Artist_x000D_ The Confessions of an Illustrator – a Serious Chapter_x000D_ A Chat between My Pen and Pencil_x000D_ Parliamentary Confessions_x000D_ "Punch"_x000D_ The Artistic Joke_x000D_ Confessions of a Columbus_x000D_ Australia_x000D_ Platform Confessions_x000D_ My Confessions as a "Reformer"_x000D_ The Confessions of an Editor