Peg Woffington

Peg Woffington
Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3846056901

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Days of the Dandies -

Days of the Dandies -
Author: Peg Woffington
Publisher: Vintage Cookery Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781444609448

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Sir Harry Wildair

Sir Harry Wildair
Author: GEORGE. FARQUHAR
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2018-04-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385095348

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T025492 London: printed for James Knapton, 1701. [8],48p.; 4°

Sapphic Crossings

Sapphic Crossings
Author: Ula Lukszo Klein
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813945526

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men’s clothing—from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men’s breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates. Spanning genres from plays, novels, and poetry to pamphlets and broadsides, the cross-dressing woman came to signal more than female independence or unconventional behaviors; she also came to signal an investment in female same-sex intimacies and sapphic desires. Sapphic Crossings reveals how various British texts from the period associate female cross-dressing with the exciting possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial not only to the history of sexuality but to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire. She prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied sexuality in the past.

Banba

Banba
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1921
Genre: Ireland
ISBN: