Author: Arthur St John Adcock
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" by Arthur St. John Adcock is a captivating exploration of the iconic landmarks and historical sites that have shaped the literary landscape of England's capital. Through vivid descriptions and insightful commentary, Adcock guides readers on a journey through the city's rich literary history, from the hallowed halls of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the cozy corners of Charles Dickens' home. Each chapter illuminates the lives and works of London's literary luminaries, offering readers a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical significance of these iconic landmarks. With its blend of scholarship and storytelling, "Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" is a must-read for anyone with a passion for literature and a desire to explore the literary heritage of one of the world's greatest cities.
Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London
Author: Arthur St John Adcock
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" by Arthur St. John Adcock is a captivating exploration of the iconic landmarks and historical sites that have shaped the literary landscape of England's capital. Through vivid descriptions and insightful commentary, Adcock guides readers on a journey through the city's rich literary history, from the hallowed halls of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the cozy corners of Charles Dickens' home. Each chapter illuminates the lives and works of London's literary luminaries, offering readers a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical significance of these iconic landmarks. With its blend of scholarship and storytelling, "Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" is a must-read for anyone with a passion for literature and a desire to explore the literary heritage of one of the world's greatest cities.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" by Arthur St. John Adcock is a captivating exploration of the iconic landmarks and historical sites that have shaped the literary landscape of England's capital. Through vivid descriptions and insightful commentary, Adcock guides readers on a journey through the city's rich literary history, from the hallowed halls of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the cozy corners of Charles Dickens' home. Each chapter illuminates the lives and works of London's literary luminaries, offering readers a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical significance of these iconic landmarks. With its blend of scholarship and storytelling, "Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London" is a must-read for anyone with a passion for literature and a desire to explore the literary heritage of one of the world's greatest cities.
Memorable Paris Houses
Author: Wilmot Harrison
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Memorable Edinburgh Houses
Author: Wilmot Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Homes and Haunts
Author: Alison Booth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
The Homes, Haunts, and Friends of John Wesley
Author: John. Biography Wesley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914)
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351554263
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the forefront of the French imagination at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This study analyzes representations of the apartments and houses of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarm?and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became a contested space and an important part of the French patrimony at this time. This is the first book to emphasize the house museum as an essentially modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. The interdisciplinary study also brings new attention to the importance of photojournalism for fin-de-si?e France - and brings to light fascinating and forgotten examples of 'at home' photography by Dornac and Henri Mairet. Elizabeth Emery provides a fresh and compelling perspective on conjunctions between visual, literary, and material cultures.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351554263
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the forefront of the French imagination at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This study analyzes representations of the apartments and houses of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarm?and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became a contested space and an important part of the French patrimony at this time. This is the first book to emphasize the house museum as an essentially modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. The interdisciplinary study also brings new attention to the importance of photojournalism for fin-de-si?e France - and brings to light fascinating and forgotten examples of 'at home' photography by Dornac and Henri Mairet. Elizabeth Emery provides a fresh and compelling perspective on conjunctions between visual, literary, and material cultures.
The New Tablet of Memory, shewing every memorable event in history, from the earliest period to the year 1811, etc
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description