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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Trübner's American and oriental literary record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Trübner's American, European and Oriental literary record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
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Languages : en
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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Trübner's American, European, & Oriental Literary Record
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London, on March 10, 1887
Author: Society of Antiquaries of London. Library
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Ruth Pritchard Dawson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350244643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350244643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.
History for Ready Reference from the Best Historians
Author: Josephus Nelson Larned
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Catalogue
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Books in Cambridge Inventories: Volume 2, Catalogue
Author: E. S. Leedham-Green
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521308731
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
These two volumes, published early in 1987 will now be made available for purchase, at a special price, as a Set. They list the contents of two hundred private libraries, as recorded in inventories presented for probate in the Vice-Chancellor's Court at the University of Cambridge between 1535 and 1760. Most of the books listed (as well as the maps and instruments, scientific and musical) reflect the flowering of the late English Renaissance as it affected all levels of the University community from academic potentates to the humblest student. The first volume presents the lists themselves, with brief biographical details of the books' owners, and appendices which include extracts from early wills; the second volume catalogues by author and title the books listed in Volume I, and is further supplied with an index, under broad subject-headings, of the authors represented. Dr. Leedham-Green has assembled one of the largest collections of private book-holdings ever published for this period in this country, comprising some 20,000 titles.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521308731
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
These two volumes, published early in 1987 will now be made available for purchase, at a special price, as a Set. They list the contents of two hundred private libraries, as recorded in inventories presented for probate in the Vice-Chancellor's Court at the University of Cambridge between 1535 and 1760. Most of the books listed (as well as the maps and instruments, scientific and musical) reflect the flowering of the late English Renaissance as it affected all levels of the University community from academic potentates to the humblest student. The first volume presents the lists themselves, with brief biographical details of the books' owners, and appendices which include extracts from early wills; the second volume catalogues by author and title the books listed in Volume I, and is further supplied with an index, under broad subject-headings, of the authors represented. Dr. Leedham-Green has assembled one of the largest collections of private book-holdings ever published for this period in this country, comprising some 20,000 titles.