Author: Mary Russell Mitford
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Perfection
Author: Margarette Lincoln
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300280491
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat’s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied. Ranging across the last four hundred years, Margarette Lincoln examines women’s health and beauty in fascinating detail. Through first-hand accounts and reports of physicians, quacks, and advertising, Lincoln captures women’s lived experience of consuming beauty products, and the excitement—and trauma—of adopting the latest fashion trends. Considering everything from body sculpture, diet, and exercise to skin, teeth, and hair, Perfection is a vibrant account of women’s body-fashioning—and shows how intimately these practices are related to community and identity throughout history.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300280491
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat’s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied. Ranging across the last four hundred years, Margarette Lincoln examines women’s health and beauty in fascinating detail. Through first-hand accounts and reports of physicians, quacks, and advertising, Lincoln captures women’s lived experience of consuming beauty products, and the excitement—and trauma—of adopting the latest fashion trends. Considering everything from body sculpture, diet, and exercise to skin, teeth, and hair, Perfection is a vibrant account of women’s body-fashioning—and shows how intimately these practices are related to community and identity throughout history.
Jane Austen the Reader
Author: O. Murphy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137292415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137292415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835
Author: Jacqueline Pearson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521584396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The first broad overview and detailed analysis of female reading audiences in this period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521584396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The first broad overview and detailed analysis of female reading audiences in this period.
Gothic Readings
Author: Rictor Norton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826485854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826485854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.
Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472539133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Hazlitt, John Keats and Charles Lamb to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472539133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Hazlitt, John Keats and Charles Lamb to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.
Critical Receptions
Author:
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN: 1930901674
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A collection of reviews on Lady Morgan's works.
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN: 1930901674
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A collection of reviews on Lady Morgan's works.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The Month
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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