Author: Brian Austen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coaching (Transportation)
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
British mail-coach services 1784-1850
Author: Brian Austen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coaching (Transportation)
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coaching (Transportation)
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
British Mail-coach Services, 1784-1850
Author: Brian Austen
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Speed, Regularity and Security
Author: Tony Gammons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse-drawn vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse-drawn vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Writing the Stage Coach Nation
Author: Ruth Livesey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198769431
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198769431
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.
Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
Author: L. Rotunno
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137323809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137323809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
Letters, Postcards, Email
Author: Esther Milne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135177465
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other’s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor’s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135177465
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other’s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor’s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence.
Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Gordon Bannerman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Investigates the contract sector of the British Army during the long eighteenth century. This book argues that this group of financiers, private merchants, businessmen and farmers represented a vital interest group which was at the nexus of the fiscal-military structure. It draws on papers from the War Office, the Treasury and the Audit Office.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Investigates the contract sector of the British Army during the long eighteenth century. This book argues that this group of financiers, private merchants, businessmen and farmers represented a vital interest group which was at the nexus of the fiscal-military structure. It draws on papers from the War Office, the Treasury and the Audit Office.
The Business of News in England, 1760–1820
Author: Victoria E. M. Gardner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137336390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137336390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance.
Transport in Britain
Author: Philip Bagwell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.