An Old Castle and Other Essays
Author | : Caleb Thomas Winchester |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Publishers |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Caleb Thomas Winchester |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Publishers |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Adshead |
Publisher | : Association of Human Rights Institutes series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | : 9780300218909 |
Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still intact. This splendid publication is the definitive source of scholarship on the remarkably well-preserved exemplar of late-Elizabethan style. Composed of extensive research and newly commissioned photography, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of the house and its inhabitants through the centuries, showcasing a remarkable collection of portraiture, tapestries, furniture, and gardens, and providing readers with a genuine sense of the house's environment. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author | : Ralph Tyler Flewelling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Personality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Corman |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442692472 |
By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women novelists as canons of the novel developed over a period of roughly two hundred years, and, in so doing, suggests reasons for their frequent exclusion. Women Novelists before Jane Austen challenges the view that exclusion from the canon was a simple function of gender and goes deeper to examine potential reasons why certain women writers were overlooked. In the process, it provides an overview of histories of the British novel from the beginning through to the mid-twentieth century, ending with the publication of Watt's famous text. Further, Corman offers a prolegomenon to the important recovery work of the late-twentieth century in which many revised accounts of the history of the novel appeared, essentially improving the scope covered by Watt. This study historicizes the place of early women novelists in the British canon in order to provide an informed context for current views.
Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony Vidler |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1580932703 |
Anthony Vidler, an internationally recognized scholar, theorist, and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, is widely known for his essays on the most pressing issues and debates in the field. This volume brings together a collection of such writings—including the iconic, long unavailable “Scenes of the Street”—into one volume.Scenes of the Street and Other Essaysshowcases Vidler’s engaging and accessible expertise on both contemporary and historic subjects that are relevant to today's concerns. “Scenes of the Street,” a multi-faceted analysis of city planning is one such example; other essays in this volume include “Unknown Lands: Guy Debord and the Cartographies of a Landscape to be Invented,” “Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault,” and “The Modern Acropolis: Tony Garnier from La Cité Antique to the Cité Industrielle.” Vidler writes in his introduction: In the following essays, I have interrogated the struggle for an urban architecture in the modern period, its critiques and aspirations, in the belief that understanding the historical dimensions of the debate will lead to a renewal of interest in an architecture calculated to redeem, if only partially, our “planet of slums” and its deteriorating environment; an interest that will not simply reject “utopia” out of hand or fall back into the complacencies of nostalgia. Written during a period in which the debates themselves were actively engaged by critics and supporters of modernism, they reflect contemporary issues as they search for their prehistory. As historical inquiries, they inevitably also engage the transformations in history writing itself since 1970, intellectual responses to the social and political conditions of postwar modernity. This fascinating series of essays on issues and figures is an invaluable resource for architects and art historians and enthusiasts of structure and substance alike.