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The Arcadian Friends
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Author : Tim Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-30
The Arcadian Friends written by Tim Richardson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Gardening categories.
Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these gardens were built to charm and delight, to shock and inspire all who visited. That these gardens - including Castle Howard, Stowe, Painshill and Rousham - are still so popular with visitors today is a testament to the innovation and passion of this extraordinary group of eccentrics and visionaries. The Arcadian Friends takes a highly engaging perspective on the politics and culture of England during the Enlightenment. At the same time it will be required reading for the legions of fans of the great gardens of England. Tim Richardson introduces us to a period of poltical and personal intrigue, where fantastic biblical landscapes competed for space with temples to sexual freedom; and where the installation of a water feature was a political act. The Arcadian Friends tells the story of a collection of fascinating characters whose influence changed the landscape of Britain for ever.
The Arcadian Friends
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Author : Tim Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Arcadian Friends written by Tim Richardson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The English Landscape Garden
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Author : Tim Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-10-22
The English Landscape Garden written by Tim Richardson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-22 with Architecture categories.
The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden—a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world.
Masculinity And Queer Desire In Spanish Enlightenment Literature
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Author : Mehl Allan Penrose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Masculinity And Queer Desire In Spanish Enlightenment Literature written by Mehl Allan Penrose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, Mehl Allan Penrose examines three distinct male figures, each of which was represented as the Other in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The most common configuration of non-normative men was the petimetre, an effeminate, Francophile male who figured a failed masculinity, a dubious sexuality, and an invasive French cultural presence. Also inscribed within cultural discourse were the bujarrón or ’sodomite,’ who participates in sexual relations with men, and the Arcadian shepherd, who expresses his desire for other males and who takes on agency as the voice of homoerotica. Analyzing journalistic essays, poetry, and drama, Penrose shows that Spanish authors employed queer images of men to engage debates about how males should appear, speak, and behave and whom they should love in order to be considered ’real’ Spaniards. Penrose interrogates works by a wide range of writers, including Luis Cañuelo, Ramón de la Cruz, and Félix María de Samaniego, arguing that the tropes created by these authors solidified the gender and sexual binary and defined and described what a ’queer’ man was in the Spanish collective imaginary. Masculinity and Queer Desire engages with current cultural, historical, and theoretical scholarship to propose the notion that the idea of queerness in gender and sexuality based on identifiable criteria started in Spain long before the medical concept of the ’homosexual’ was created around 1870.
Imagining Arcadia In Renaissance Romance
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Author : Marsha S. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Imagining Arcadia In Renaissance Romance written by Marsha S. Collins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction, producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation. Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over generic classification, Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance analyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in remaking Arcadia in five, canonical sixteenth-century texts: Sannazaro’s Arcadia; Montemayor’s La Diana; Cervantes’ La Galatea; Sidney’s Arcadia; and Lope de Vega’s Arcadia. Collins’ analyses of the re-imagined Arcadia in these works elucidate the interplay between timely incursions into the fictional world and the timelessness of art, highlighting issues of freedom, identity formation, subjectivity and self-fashioning, the intersection of public and private activity, and the fascination with mortality. This book addresses the under-representation of Spanish literature in Early Modern literary histories, especially regarding the rich Spanish contribution to the pastoral and to idealizing fiction in the West. Companion chapters on Cervantes and Sidney add to the growing field of Anglo-Spanish comparative literary studies, while the book’s comparative and transnational approach extends discussion of the pastoral beyond the boundaries of national literary traditions. This book’s innovative approach to these fictional worlds sheds new light on Arcadia’s enduring presence in the collective imagination today.
Discourses And Representations Of Friendship In Early Modern Europe 1500 1700
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Author : Maritere López
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Discourses And Representations Of Friendship In Early Modern Europe 1500 1700 written by Maritere López and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.
A Curious Friendship
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Author : Anna Thomasson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-03-26
A Curious Friendship written by Anna Thomasson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's A Curious Friendship brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.
Great British Gardeners
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Author : Vanessa Berridge
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Great British Gardeners written by Vanessa Berridge and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Gardening categories.
Through the stories of twenty-six inspiring figures - from ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphry Repton and Vita Sackville-West to lesser known figures, and present-day gardeners such as Beth Chatto and John Brookes - this book brings the colourful history of British gardening to life.
Aeschines And Athenian Politics
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Author : Edward M. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-02-16
Aeschines And Athenian Politics written by Edward M. Harris and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-16 with History categories.
Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines. Along with Isocrates, Aeschines was one of the most prominent Athenian politicians who advocated friendly ties with the Macedonian king Philip II. Though overshadowed by his famous rival Demosthenes, Aeschines played a key role in the decisive events that marked the rise of Macedonian power in Greece and formed the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period. Three long speeches by Aeschines, all delivered in court battles with his opponent Demosthenes, have been preserved and provide us with valuable information about Athenian politics during a major turning point in Greek history. This study of Aeschines' political career examines the reliability of court speeches as historical evidence and shows how they help reveal how democratic institutions actually functioned in Athens when faced with the rise of Macedonian power.
Universal History Ancient And Modern From The Earliest Records Of Time To The General Peace Of 1801
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Author : William Fordyce Mavor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1802
Universal History Ancient And Modern From The Earliest Records Of Time To The General Peace Of 1801 written by William Fordyce Mavor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1802 with categories.