Victorian Bibliomania
Author : Alice H. R. H. Beckwith
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Bibliomania
Author : Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher :
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians
Author : Jen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317104641
Book Description
What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.
Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981777
Book Description
The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument. Considerations of class, religion and gender are explored, illuminating changing social identities as public interest in science was allowed—even encouraged—beyond the environs of universities and elite metropolitan societies.
1979-1990
Author : Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110975068
Book Description
Humanities
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Humanities
ISBN :
Book Description
A Gentle Madness
Author : Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher :
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780979949159
Book Description
A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Author : William Robert Tymms
Publisher : London : Day and Son
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Book Description
Humanities
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Humanities
ISBN :
Book Description
A Companion to Medieval Art
Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1245 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1119077745
Book Description
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.
