Author: One who saw it
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Sack of London in the Great French War of 1901
Author: One who saw it
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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A Description of the Grand Pictorial Model of London in the Olden Time, Previous to the Great Fire in 1666, Painted by Messrs. Dauson and Telbin, and Now Exhibiting at the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens ... With an Account of the Great Fire of London from the Best Authorities
Author: Sidney FOSTER
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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London
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.
English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660-1700, vol 1
Author: George Southcombe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously 'witty' acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell's death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot's 'A sea of the seed's sufferings'.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously 'witty' acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell's death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot's 'A sea of the seed's sufferings'.
Metropolitan Tragedy
Author: Marissa Greenberg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442648805
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442648805
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.
The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks
Author: Thomas Brooks
Publisher:
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London
Author: Cynthia Wall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book explores the literary and cultural rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book explores the literary and cultural rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.
London's Burning
Author: Antony Taylor
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441121854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London. Periods of popular protest or radicalism have generated novels that consider the methods insurgents might use to terrorise the metropolis. There has been a tendency to dismiss such writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the construction of the terrorist threat. It analyses the high-points for the production of such works, and locates them in their cultural and historical context. From the 1840s, when a fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers' fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature in the thriller literature of the 1970s. It concludes with a re-evaluation of the metropolitan background to the figure of the Islamist terrorist.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441121854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London. Periods of popular protest or radicalism have generated novels that consider the methods insurgents might use to terrorise the metropolis. There has been a tendency to dismiss such writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the construction of the terrorist threat. It analyses the high-points for the production of such works, and locates them in their cultural and historical context. From the 1840s, when a fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers' fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature in the thriller literature of the 1970s. It concludes with a re-evaluation of the metropolitan background to the figure of the Islamist terrorist.
London in Modern Times, Or, Sketches of the English Metropolis During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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When London Burned
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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