Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century, Paperback - Bethan Roberts

This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - in multiple ways - in literary histor...

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Bethan RobertsIllustration(s): 77 color plates, 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Collection: AnimalPublication d...

Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Vividly tracing convergences of aesthetic theor...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of...

The lives of Gladys Presley and her son Elvis, across the boy's poor childhood, growing interest in the blues, ascent to fame and troubled years af...

Reducere. An exquisitely told tragic tale of thwarted love, My Policeman is soon to be adapted into film by Amazon Prime starring Harry Styles and Emma Corri...

Reducere. Acum si un film de mare succes in care joaca Harry Styles, Emma Corrin si David Dawson "Asta era tot ce voiam atunci.Sa uit lacrimile pe care le-am...

In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent waf...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and critical debates abou...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to ...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and ...

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Bethan JonesNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 232 x 155 x 21Cover type: Paperback / s...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lucas HaasisNumber of pages: 600Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 48Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine ...

Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. Yet the primary sources show that parties with disputes got on with the...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): Adam SillsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 255 x 21Cover type: Paperba...