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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Growing World, Or Progress of Civilization and the Wonders of Nature, Science, Literature and Art, Interspersed with a Useful and Entertaining Collection of Miscellany by the Best Authors of Our Day
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Growing World
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Growing World Or, Progress of Civilization
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Growing World ; Or, Progress of Civilization, and the Wonders of Nature, Science, Literature and Art
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Growing World
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Growing World, Or, Progress of Civilization, and Wonders of Nature, Science, Literature and Art
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
The Perversity of Things
Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452953147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452953147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.