Thomas Churchyard, 1520-1604
Author : Henry William Adnitt
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Henry William Adnitt
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Robert Bell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368751530
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192593048
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Author : Anthony Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134783825
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Author : Thomas B. Shaw
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Thomas Budd Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 1870
Category : American literature
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Author : Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780773473799
volume is the first in a two-volume set which constitutes an edition of the sale catalogue of the private library of Rushton M. Dorman of Chicago, Illinois, a collection numbering 1842 separate items. The book demonstrates book-collecting and reading habits and interests among affluent late 19th-century Americans. In addition, the substance and tone of the comments set down by the original compiler of the catalogue display the marketing methods employed by a major late-19th-century book-auction firm.
Author : William Minto
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
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Author : Arly Allen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476639396
Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world. Modern boxing began in the Middle Ages in England as a criminal activity. It then became a sport supported by the kings and aristocracy. Later it was again outlawed and only in the 20th century has it become a sport popular around the world. This book describes how modern boxing began in England as an outgrowth of the native English sense of fair play. It demonstrates that boxing was the common man's alternative to the sword duel of honor, and argues that boxing and fair play helped Englishmen avoid the revolutions common to France, Italy and Germany during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. English enthusiasm for boxing largely drove out the pistol and sword duels from English society. And although boxing remains a brutal sport, it has made England one of the safest countries in the world. It also examines how the rituals of boxing developed: the meaning of the parade to the ring; the meaning of the ring itself; why only two men fight at one time; why the fighters shake hands before each fight; why a boxing match is called a prizefight; and why a knock-down does not end the bout. Its sources include material from medieval manuscripts, and its notes and bibliography are extensive.