Author: Pineau
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
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Glory and Terror
Author: Antoine de Baecque
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721136
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." -from the Preface by Patrick McGrath
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721136
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." -from the Preface by Patrick McGrath
Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, October 27-29, 2006
Author: Lilian H. Zirpoli
Publisher: Wapacc Organization
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Wapacc Organization
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Authors and Subjects
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The Cemetery and the City
Author: Richard A. Etlin
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Mémoire sur le danger des inhumations précipitées, & sur la nécessité d'un réglement, pour mettre les citoyens à l'abri du malheur d'être enterrés vivans. ...
Author: Pineau
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
Book Description
Mémoire Sur Le Danger Des Inhumations Précipitées, Et Sur La Nécessité d'Un Règlement
Author: Pineau-D
Publisher: Hachette Livre - BNF
ISBN: 9782329250168
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher: Hachette Livre - BNF
ISBN: 9782329250168
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 140
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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