Author: Norris J. Lacy
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Offer an overview and a number of examinations of Arthur's fortunes. This work reveals the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. It traces the trajectory of the Arthurian legend, and follows the turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the flourishing of the legend.
The Fortunes of King Arthur
Author: Norris J. Lacy
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Offer an overview and a number of examinations of Arthur's fortunes. This work reveals the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. It traces the trajectory of the Arthurian legend, and follows the turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the flourishing of the legend.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Offer an overview and a number of examinations of Arthur's fortunes. This work reveals the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. It traces the trajectory of the Arthurian legend, and follows the turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the flourishing of the legend.
The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel
Author: Sophia Andres
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209742
Category : Aesthetics, British
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209742
Category : Aesthetics, British
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
How to Tell Fortunes
Author: Aaron A. Warford
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736415923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In telling Fortunes by Cards—as in all games in which they are employed—the Ace ranks highest in value. Then comes the King, followed by the Queen, Knave, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven; these being generally the only cards used. The order, and comparative value of the different suits, is as follows:—First on the list stand "Clubs," as they mostly portend happiness; and—no matter how numerous, or how accompanied—are rarely or never of bad augury. Next come "Hearts," which usually signify joy, liberality, or good temper; "Diamonds," on the contrary, denote delay, quarrels, and annoyance; and "Spades"—the worst suit of all—grief, sickness, and loss of money. We are of course speaking generally, as, in many cases, the position of cards entirely changes their signification; their individual and relative meaning being often widely different. Thus, for example, the King of Hearts, the Nine of Hearts, and the Nine of Clubs, respectively signify, a liberal man, joy, and success in love, but change their position, by placing the King between the two nines, and you would read that a man, then rich and happy, would be ere long consigned to a prison!
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736415923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In telling Fortunes by Cards—as in all games in which they are employed—the Ace ranks highest in value. Then comes the King, followed by the Queen, Knave, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven; these being generally the only cards used. The order, and comparative value of the different suits, is as follows:—First on the list stand "Clubs," as they mostly portend happiness; and—no matter how numerous, or how accompanied—are rarely or never of bad augury. Next come "Hearts," which usually signify joy, liberality, or good temper; "Diamonds," on the contrary, denote delay, quarrels, and annoyance; and "Spades"—the worst suit of all—grief, sickness, and loss of money. We are of course speaking generally, as, in many cases, the position of cards entirely changes their signification; their individual and relative meaning being often widely different. Thus, for example, the King of Hearts, the Nine of Hearts, and the Nine of Clubs, respectively signify, a liberal man, joy, and success in love, but change their position, by placing the King between the two nines, and you would read that a man, then rich and happy, would be ere long consigned to a prison!
Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley. [The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward.]
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the peak
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Pages : 702
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Encyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Author: Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Publisher:
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Waverly Novels: The fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 757
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Pages : 757
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The Waverley Novels: The fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography
Author: Joanna Summers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199271291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199271291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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