Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Author: Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351552139
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Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal public statues as the basis for its examination of modern European cities, the book considers the development of urban landscapes from the creation of capital cities to the last embers of the Ancien R?me and at how the royal politics of the arts affected the cityscapes of the time. The focus of the book thereby intersects across a spectrum of disciplines, including the social and architectural history of cities, the politics of urban planning, the history of monumental sculpture, and the material culture of the eighteenth century.

Inner empire

Inner empire
Author: Daniel Maudlin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1526142686
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Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain’s four-hundred year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world. Buildings stood as one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the myriad relationships that Britain maintained with the theory and practice of colonialism in its modern history. Divided into two main sections, the volume’s content considers ‘internal’ colonisation and its infrastructures of control, order, and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, the imperial economy, and cultural identity. Taken together, the essays in this volume present for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure.

The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Author: Elizabeth Tilley
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030300730
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political and social upheaval of the century. Titles examined include: The Irish Magazine, and Monthly Asylum for Neglected Biography and The Irish Farmers’ Journal, and Weekly Intelligencer; The Dublin University Magazine; Royal Irish Academy Transactions and Proceedings and The Dublin Penny Journal; The Irish Builder (1859-1979); domestic titles from the publishing firm of James Duffy; Pat and To-Day’s Woman. The Appendix consists of excerpts from a series entitled ‘The Rise and Progress of Printing and Publishing in Ireland’ that appeared in The Irish Builder from July of 1877 to June of 1878. Written in a highly entertaining, anecdotal style, the series provides contemporary information about the Irish publishing industry.

Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760

Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
Author: R. Usher
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230362168
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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.

The Troubled Life of Richard Castle, Ireland’s Pre-Eminent Early Eighteenth-Century Architect

The Troubled Life of Richard Castle, Ireland’s Pre-Eminent Early Eighteenth-Century Architect
Author: Barbara Freitag
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1527528898
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Richard Castle is widely regarded as one of the most important architects in eighteenth-century Ireland, yet this is the first book devoted to both Castle’s personal history and his professional career. The study builds on a wealth of information concerning his background. It investigates Castle’s Dutch and Sephardic ancestors, his father’s position at the Polish court, the military career of his siblings in the Saxon/Polish army, his wife’s Huguenot family, and his kinship with English economist David Ricardo. Making use of extensive research data, the book refutes commonly held misconceptions about Castle’s name, family, nationality and religion. This book will be of interest to architectural historians, readers interested in Irish/European cultural studies, and researchers into the Jewish diaspora and into early modern Europe in general.