Author: Arthur Octavius Prickard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-02
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1108017967
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Author: New College (University of Oxford)
Publisher: Phillimore
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew J. Counter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0198785992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life--beginning with the French way of love. The literary works of the Bourbon Restoration ceaselessly return to the themes of love, sex, and marriage, partly as vital cultural questions in their own right, but also as a means of critiquing the deficiencies of past regimes, negotiating the politics of the present, and imagining the shape of the political future. In the literature of the Restoration, love and politics become entwined in a mutually metaphorical embrace. The Amorous Restoration, the first book in English devoted to literary and cultural life under the last Bourbon kings, considers this relationship in all its richness and many contradictions. Long neglected as a drab historical backwater, the Restoration emerges here as a vibrant era, one rife with sharp cultural and political disagreements, and possessed of an especially refined sense of allusion, discretion, and even humour. Drawing on literature, journalism, political writing, life writing, and gossip, The Amorous Restoration vividly recreates the erotic sensibilities of a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic--and political--modernity.
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004359052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Utilizing a wide range of sources, the volume furnishes precious new information regarding the composition and early reception of the King James Bible, and situates the masterpiece within the broad context of early modern scholarship and polemics.
Author: Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-06-26
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0747813973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to provide choristers for the chapel of New College, Oxford. Since then the School has had a peripatetic existence, occupying prime locations in the centre of a beautiful university city. Its pupils have witnessed centuries of dramatic history, including being inspected by Tudor monarchs during the Reformation and being forced out of their schoolroom during the English Civil War. The School has also grown over the centuries to include many more boys than those of the original choral foundation, educating and preparing them all for distinguished careers and fulfilled lives.
Author: Alexander Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1107030307
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Author: Patrick Hartwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780195030808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A masterful book...one of the most thorough books on rhetoric I've seen."--Olivia Castellano, California State University, Sacramento "A beautiful work. The first text I have so far seen that operates fully from the principles we have learned about writing and the teaching of writing in the last fiftenn years."--Ronald Shook A dramatic, invention-centered approach to the teaching of writing skills, this comprehensive text actively involves students in the writing process, drawing on the language capabilities they bring to the classroom.
Author: John A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-04-18
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ISBN-13: 9780195218893
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