Book Description
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Author : John Marriott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040248179
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Author : John Marriott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040242561
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Author : John Marriott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040243525
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131617588X
The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.
Author : Kathryn Chittick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317316428
The premise of Chittick's study is that the national discourse found in British periodical literature of 1802-30 is crucial to an understanding of the literary language of the era.
Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300245793
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 1996-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313032653
From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.
Author : Louis Sloos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2008 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 904742588X
An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft
Author : David Deming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786490861
This installment in a series on science and technology in world history begins in the fourteenth century, explaining the origin and nature of scientific methodology and the relation of science to religion, philosophy, military history, economics and technology. Specific topics covered include the Black Death, the Little Ice Age, the invention of the printing press, Martin Luther and the Reformation, the birth of modern medicine, the Copernican Revolution, Galileo, Kepler, Isaac Newton, and the Scientific Revolution.
Author : Sadiah Qureshi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226700968
Examines the phenomenon of human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain and considers how this legacy informs understandings of race and empire today.