History and Antiquities of Kensington
Author | : Thomas Faulkner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Kensington (London, England) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Faulkner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Kensington (London, England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Dickie |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2014-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022614254X |
A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.
Author | : Captain Alexander Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113648423X |
A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows. This reprint makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition and includes an introduction by Arthur L. Hayward, which sets the accounts in the appropriate historical context.
Author | : Matthew C. Augustine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107064392 |
Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
Author | : Thomas Faulkner (Topographer.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Kensington (London, England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Brigands and robbers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Etienne Achille Réveil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karl Baedeker (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lincoln B. Faller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1987-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521326728 |
Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character.
Author | : Alison Conway |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442698616 |
After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties. In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.