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Partial Histories

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Author : Elaine M. McGirr
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-22

Partial Histories written by Elaine M. McGirr and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-22 with Performing Arts categories.

This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber ‘everybody knows’ has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the ‘nation’s poet’ and canonised Cibber’s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history’s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women’s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bête noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies.

Partial Histories

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Author : Louise Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Partial Histories written by Louise Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.

A Partial History Of Lost Causes

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Author : Jennifer duBois
language : en
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date : 2012-03-20

A Partial History Of Lost Causes written by Jennifer duBois and has been published by Dial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-20 with Fiction categories.

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and the endurance of love. NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL FOR FIRST FICTION • WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “Astonishingly beautiful and brainy . . . [a] stunning novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “I can’t remember reading another novel—at least not recently—that’s both incredibly intelligent and also emotionally engaging.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest: He launches a dissident presidential campaign against Vladimir Putin. He knows he will not win—and that he is risking his life in the process—but a deeper conviction propels him forward. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, thirty-year-old English lecturer Irina Ellison struggles for a sense of purpose. Irina is certain she has inherited Huntington’s disease—the same cruel illness that ended her father’s life. When Irina finds an old, photocopied letter her father wrote to the young Aleksandr Bezetov, she makes a fateful decision. Her father asked the chess prodigy a profound question—How does one proceed in a lost cause?—but never received an adequate reply. Leaving everything behind, Irina travels to Russia to find Bezetov and get an answer for her father, and for herself. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Salon • BookPage Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for A Partial History of Lost Causes “A thrilling debut . . . [Jennifer] DuBois writes with haunting richness and fierce intelligence. . . . Full of bravado, insight, and clarity.”—Elle “DuBois is precise and unsentimental. . . . She moves with a magician’s control between points of view, continents, histories, and sympathies.”—The New Yorker “A real page-turner . . . a psychological thriller of great nuance and complexity.”—The Dallas Morning News “Terrific . . . In urgent fashion, duBois deftly evokes Russia’s political and social metamorphosis over the past thirty years through the prism of this particular and moving relationship.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hilarious and heartbreaking and a triumph of the imagination.”—Gary Shteyngart

Partial History Of The Development Of Grain Harvesting Equipment

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939

Partial History Of The Development Of Grain Harvesting Equipment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Harvesting machinery categories.

Descriptions Of Two Species Of Distoma With The Partial History Of One Of Them Extracted From The Proceedings Of The Academy Of Natural Sciences Of Philadelphia

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Author : Joseph Leidy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848

Descriptions Of Two Species Of Distoma With The Partial History Of One Of Them Extracted From The Proceedings Of The Academy Of Natural Sciences Of Philadelphia written by Joseph Leidy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.

Breeding

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Author : Jenny Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09

Breeding written by Jenny Davidson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with History categories.

The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringing breeding could make any man a member of the cultural elite. Yet even in this egalitarian environment, the concept of breeding remained tied to theories of blood lineage, caste distinction, and biological difference. Turning to the works of Locke, Rousseau, Swift, Defoe, and other giants of the British Enlightenment, Jenny Davidson revives the debates that raged over the husbandry of human nature and highlights their critical impact on the development of eugenics, the emergence of fears about biological determinism, and the history of the language itself. Combining rich historical research with a keen sense of story, she links explanations for the physical resemblance between parents and children to larger arguments about culture and society and shows how the threads of this compelling conversation reveal the character of a century. A remarkable intellectual history, Breeding not only recasts the fundamental concerns of the Enlightenment but also uncovers the seeds of thought that bloomed into contemporary notions of human perfectibility.

Book Works

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Author : Jane Rolo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Book Works written by Jane Rolo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Artists' books categories.

Tiré du site Internet de Book Works: "Since 1984 Book Works has aimed to make and question contexts for books in a variety of ways ; "Book Works: a partial history and sourcebook" is a record of all its activities up to 1996. It is also an introduction to artists' books and their points of contact with the larger cultures of contemporary visual arts and of the written word. The book includes illuminating essays from a variety of perspectives - practical, theoretical and irreverent. Many of Book Works' projects and publications are illustrated and described with detailed critical commentary. In addition, the book contains valuable information about self-publishing and details of libraries that hold collections of artists' books."