Author: Martin Easdown
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1845630939
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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In this work, Martin Easdown turns his expert attention westward to the Lancashire coast. His highly illustrated survey of the piers constructed at famous resorts like Blackpool, Morecambe, Southport and St Annes-on-Sea celebrates structures that are among the most exuberant and evocative of the Victorian age.
Author: John Wilkinson, T.T. Harland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732659151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Reproduction of the original: Lancashire Folk-Lore by John Harland, T.T. Wilkinson
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191584002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.
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Author: Robert Leake
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Gwyn Headley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800346727
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.
Author: Manchester Literary Club
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
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Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: William Richard Titterton
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Manchester Literary Club
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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