Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on some versos of 390 leaves.

Author: Corinne Saunders
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470999160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance’s special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples

Author: Timothy J. Shannon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances and in a printed narrative he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his tribulations as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner of war. Aberdeen’s magistrates called him a liar and banished him from the city, but Williamson defended his story. Separating fact from fiction, Timothy J. Shannon explains what Williamson’s tale says about how working people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims of empire, found ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it. Exiled from Aberdeen, Williamson settled in Edinburgh, where he cultivated enduring celebrity as the self-proclaimed “king of the Indians.” His performances and publications capitalized on the curiosity the Seven Years’ War had ignited among the public for news and information about America and its native inhabitants. As a coffeehouse proprietor and printer, he gave audiences a plebeian perspective on Britain’s rise to imperial power in North America. Indian Captive, Indian King is a history of empire from the bottom up, showing how Williamson’s American odyssey illuminates the real-life experiences of everyday people on the margins of the British Empire and how those experiences, when repackaged in travel narratives and captivity tales, shaped popular perceptions about the empire’s racial and cultural geography.

Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Bangalore Venkat Raman
Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN: 9788185273730
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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