Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1823-1825
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1828-1831
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1821-1823
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Author: Alexander M. Ross
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1825-1826
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Iron Duke
Author: Lawrence James
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144645035X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'Lord Wellington don't know how to lose a battle.' The view of an anonymous soldier at Waterloo became the judgement of the world on the man who was hailed as the first general of his age. At Waterloo he defeated Napoleon, the master of war, and finally checked the disruptive forces of the French Revolution that had troubled Europe for over twenty years. Wellington taught himself the art of war in India where his hard-fought victories helped lay the foundations of the British raj. His armies liberated Portugal and Spain, shattered the myth of French invincibility and inspired the people of Europe to resist Napoleon. Largely drawn from original sources, Lawrence James's biography follows the life of Wellington the soldier and explains how he waged war and why he won battles. This is also the story of a humane, intelligent and acerbic aristocrat who believed that his kind were predestined to lead. It shows how he stamped his iron will on the men he commanded and how they responded. It reveals Wellington the professional fighting man who created the remarkable intelligence and logistical services that were the keys to his victories. But it was as the national hero who beat Napoleon, gave Europe peace and adhered resolutely to the path of duty that he was honoured by his countrymen who saw him as 'the highest incarnation of English character'.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144645035X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'Lord Wellington don't know how to lose a battle.' The view of an anonymous soldier at Waterloo became the judgement of the world on the man who was hailed as the first general of his age. At Waterloo he defeated Napoleon, the master of war, and finally checked the disruptive forces of the French Revolution that had troubled Europe for over twenty years. Wellington taught himself the art of war in India where his hard-fought victories helped lay the foundations of the British raj. His armies liberated Portugal and Spain, shattered the myth of French invincibility and inspired the people of Europe to resist Napoleon. Largely drawn from original sources, Lawrence James's biography follows the life of Wellington the soldier and explains how he waged war and why he won battles. This is also the story of a humane, intelligent and acerbic aristocrat who believed that his kind were predestined to lead. It shows how he stamped his iron will on the men he commanded and how they responded. It reveals Wellington the professional fighting man who created the remarkable intelligence and logistical services that were the keys to his victories. But it was as the national hero who beat Napoleon, gave Europe peace and adhered resolutely to the path of duty that he was honoured by his countrymen who saw him as 'the highest incarnation of English character'.
House of Fiction
Author: Phyllis Richardson
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783523816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature. We encounter Jane Austen drinking ‘too much wine’ in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf’s love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead. Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783523816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature. We encounter Jane Austen drinking ‘too much wine’ in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf’s love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead. Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1817-1819
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1819-1821
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description