The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860
Author : Cornelius P. Darcy
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719013300
Author : Cornelius P. Darcy
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719013300
Author : Cornelius P. Darcy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Robert A. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528641
A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.
Author : B. G. Blackwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719013348
Author : Janet Wolff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745678394
This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and post-modern culture. The essays in the book challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and enquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing. They also present a cogent defence of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body.
Author : Brian Lewis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1526130432
This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap empire. Unlike previous biographies, which have focused on the man’s life story and eccentricities, or just considered one aspect of his career, So clean places him squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship. Much more than a warts-and-all biography, the book uses Lever as an entry-point for contextualized and comparative essays on the history of advertising; on factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century; and on colonialism and forced labour in the Belgian Congo and the South Pacific. It concludes with a discussion of his extraordinary attempt, in his final years, to transform crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides. Written in an engaging and accessible style, So Clean will appeal to academics and students working in business, social, cultural and imperial history.
Author : Janet Wolff
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780719024603
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1009200844
This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.
Author : Jon Mee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226828395
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic mills,” in many ways so characteristic of literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. In Networks of Improvement, Mee reads a wide range of texts—economic, medical, and more conventionally “literary”—with a focus on their circulation through networks and institutions. Mee shows how a project of enlightened liberal reform articulated in Britain’s emerging manufacturing towns led to unexpectedly coercive forms of machine productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital technologies of our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Revolution as Romanticism’s “other,” Mee shows how writing, practices, and institutions emanating from these industrial towns developed a new kind of knowledge economy, one where local literary and philosophical societies served as important transmission hubs for the circulation of knowledge.
Author : Peter Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317166868
In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Paris. The following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period, and his previous visit to London in 1837, remain little known. In this richly illustrated study, Peter Willis draws on extensive original documentary evidence, as well as cultural artefacts, to tell the story of these two visits and to place them into aristocratic and artistic life in mid-nineteenth-century England and Scotland. In addition to filling a significant hole in our knowledge of the composer’s life, the book adds to our understanding of a number of important figures, including Jane Stirling and the painter Ary Scheffer. The social and artistic milieux of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are brought to vivid life.