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Author | : Sheila Johnson Kindred |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773552081 |
In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between and lived in Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister, Fanny’s articulate and informative letters – transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context – disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how much she was an inspiration for Austen’s literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny’s story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women’s roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny’s life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction as well as for those interested in biography, women’s letters, and history of the family.
Author | : Mary V. Jackson |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803275706 |
Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books
Author | : Rosemary Mitchell |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2000-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191543225 |
This monograph is a wide-ranging and sophisticated analysis of representations in text and image of the English past between 1830 and 1870. It consists of a series of inter-related case-studies of illustrated history books, ranging from editions of David Humes History of England to W. H. Ainsworths The Tower of London (1840). It contributes to present debates on nationalism, highlighting the complex and variable nature of cultural constructions of identity. Simultaneously, if offers an overall interpretation of historiographical change in early and mid-Victorian Britain, focusing in particular on the transition from picturesque reconstructions of the English past to the scientific approaches of the professional historian. Genuinely interdisciplinary, Picturing the Past presents new perspectives on traditional studies of Victorian historiography, literature, and illustration. It explores relationships between text and image, author, illustrator, and publisher, in the production of illustrated historical texts, often drawing on neglected material in publishers archives. The tendency to analyse text and image, fiction and non-fiction, popular and elite publications in isolation from each other is challenged in the interests of a more complex and nuanced portrait of the middle-class Victorian historical consciousness.
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : English imprints |
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Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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Author | : Isabelle Baudino |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000843386 |
Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : Alexander Chalmers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1042 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Biography |
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Author | : Patrick Spedding |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303056312X |
Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an account of literary marginalia based on original research from a range of unique archival sources, from mid-16th-century France to early 20th-century Tasmania. Chapters examine marginal commentary from 17th-century China, 18th-century Britain, and 19th-century America, investigating the reputations, as reflected by attentive readers, of He Zhou, Pierre Bayle, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Warton, and Sir Walter Scott. The marginal writers include Jacques Gohory, Mary Astell, Hester Thrale, Herman Melville, the young daughters of the Broome family in Gloucestershire, and the patrons of the library of the Huon Mechanics’ Institute, Tasmania. Though marginalia is often proscribed and frequently hidden or overlooked, the collection reveals the enduring power of marginalia, concluding with studies of the ethics of annotation and the resurrected life of marginalia in digital environments.
Author | : Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London |
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Total Pages | : 1012 |
Release | : 1927 |
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