Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Lord Chesterfield's Maxims: Or, a New Plan of Education, on the Principles of Virtue and Politeness
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Lord Chesterfield's Maxims: Or a New Plan of Education on the Principles of Virtue and Politeness
Author: ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Uses of Education
Author: Stephen BygravePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757251
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
What is education for? The question framed in the second half of the eighteenth century in England is still urgent. Posed in textbooks, histories, conduct books, economic treatises, novels, and other kinds of writing, it was asked about punishment, the classical curriculum, the low status of teachers, education of the poor, public school or private tutor, and the education of girls. Uses of Education shows the fundamental question to be about the potential and limits of Enlightenment thought as it seeks to be embodied in institutions.
Lord Chesterfield's Maxims, ... in which the exceptionable parts ... are ... rejected. ... A new edition
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of ChesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Bookseller of the Last Century
Author: Charles WelshPublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A bookseller of the last century, being some account of the life of J. Newbery, and of the books he published, with a notice of the later Newberys
Author: Charles WelshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Refining Russia
Author: Catriona KellyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191541680
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia between the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. It reflected changing attitudes to appropriate behaviour in private and public, to the acquisition of possessions, and not least to national identity (for many Russians, reading how-to books was seen as a way of 'learning how to be a Westerner'). Written or translated by members of the cultural elite trying to encourage what they saw as civilized behaviour, advice literature was also a conduit for changing views of mass readers and of their place in society. This important and engaging book is the first systematic exploration of this hitherto neglected genre of popular printed text. It examines the evolution of advice literature from the Enlightenment to the post-Soviet era, from translations of Fénelon and Madame de Lambert in the 1760s and of Samuel Smiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to tracts by Gogol and Tolstoi, Soviet pamphlets on 'how to be cultured', and post-Soviet guides to 'window treatments'. It draws on a huge range of sources - memoirs, 'novelised conduct books' such as Anna Karenina, parody advice literature, letters, and reviews - to examine the broader significance of how-to books, and their relationship with daily life (byt) as construct and as lived reality. The result is a book that not only makes a major contribution to the study of popular culture, but also throws an unexpected and revealing light on Russian history more broadly.
A Modern System of Natural History
Author: Samuel WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A New History of England. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... By the Reverend Mr. Cooper. A New Edition
Author: Richard JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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