The Last Conquest
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Literature And The Irish Famine 1845 1919
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Author : Melissa Fegan
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2002-08-08
Literature And The Irish Famine 1845 1919 written by Melissa Fegan and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-08 with History categories.
The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.
The Last Days Of The Incas
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Author : Kim MacQuarrie
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Last Days Of The Incas written by Kim MacQuarrie and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed-due largely to their horses, their steel armour and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba-only recently rediscovered by a trio of colorful American explorers. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.
Intertextuality In American Drama
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Author : Drew Eisenhauer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Intertextuality In American Drama written by Drew Eisenhauer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
The Passionate Fictions Of Eliza Haywood
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Author : Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2000
The Passionate Fictions Of Eliza Haywood written by Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator , the first English periodical written by women for women. Though tremendously popular, her novels and plays from the 1720s and 30s scandalized the reading public with explicit portrayals of female sexuality and led others to call her "the Great Arbitress of Passion." Essays in this collection explore themes such as the connections between Haywood's early and late work, her experiments with the form of the novel, her involvement in party politics, her use of myth and plot devices, and her intense interest in the imbalance of power between men and women. Distinguished scholars such as Paula Backschieder, Felicity Nussbaum, and John Richetti approach Haywood from a number of theoretical and topical positions, leading the way in a crucial reexamination of her work. The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood examines the formal and ideological complexities of her prose and demonstrates how Haywood's texts deft traditional schematization.
Theudemirus Dux The Last Of The Goths
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Author : Rafael Barroso Cabrera
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2025-05-01
Theudemirus Dux The Last Of The Goths written by Rafael Barroso Cabrera and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-01 with History categories.
This book explores Duke Theudemir’s role in the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom and the shift of power to Arab rule. It examines southeastern Iberia’s political context from Byzantine to Arab control and considers Pla de Nadal as Theudemir’s possible seat of power.
The Shape Of Apocalypse In Modern Russian Fiction
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Author : David M. Bethea
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Shape Of Apocalypse In Modern Russian Fiction written by David M. Bethea and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Last Roman Vengeance
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Author : David Donachie
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-05-01
The Last Roman Vengeance written by David Donachie and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-01 with Fiction categories.
The first volume in The Last Roman trilogy, set in the final years of the Roman Empire Sixth-century Byzantium: Corruption is rife and the empire is in turmoil when Flavius Belisarius is expected to join his father’s cohort to help protect the border of the Eastern Roman Empire. Flavius’s father, Decimus, is the governor of Dorostorum city and has two goals: to keep out the Sklaveni barbarians across the Danube and to expose the deep roots of corruption. Seeking to prevent a barbarian raid, Decimus asks the powerful magnate Senuthius Vicinus for help. But when treachery leads to death in the Belisarius family, Decimus’s reputation is damaged. With his life changed forever, Flavius swears vengeance on the man who betrayed his father and begins a journey from which there is no way back.
The Korean Information Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Korean Information Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Korea categories.
One Year In Paris
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Author : Frederic Thiphaine
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-04-10
One Year In Paris written by Frederic Thiphaine and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Poetry categories.
One Year in Paris is a collection of poems. Writings range from the mundane To the realm of spirits, from the edge of anguish To unbridled joy and exuberant hope From audacious to irreverence Always with disconcerting Honesty the words Reveal a dangerously simple and personal philosophy. The poems explore the moody nexus of love belief The shadowy worlds of emotions Where poems are paintings of perceptions. From life to death to life to the sweetness Of child's presence The alert reader will glimpse the revealed soul.
Burke
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Author : John Morley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-17
Burke written by John Morley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An 1879 biography of Edmund Burke, emphasising his independent political stance which mixed utilitarian liberalism and historic conservatism.