The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century, Hardcover - Nicholas Baragwanath

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the impo...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but comple...

The period from 1650 to 1800 was a time of immense change in Scotland, witnessing the Union of 1707, the Jacobite Risings, and the flowering of the...

Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; ...

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales - meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, in...

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

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

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

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

Reducere. God's accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in ...

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

The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century. Published to coincide ...

DescriptionThe impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial ha...

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

Transylvania in the eighteenth century. Aspects of regional identity - Laura Stanciu, Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 88 colour illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type:...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his m...

Reducere. The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative b...

A novel, set in the late eighteenth century, about smuggling off the coast of south-east Kent, EnglandPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Simon G...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Nadine Boehm-schnitkerNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

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 ...

Inclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring us togetherPublisher: Ya...

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

The mesmerising story of the eighteenth-century financier of genius who rose from humble Scottish origins to control of the purse-strings of the mo...

"A typically wise and thoughtful book, which manages to combine a wealth of unexpected information with an immensely readable style - it should gra...

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

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

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

Reducere. In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British ...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in...