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This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.
Appendices of: To Escape Into Dreams are companion books the second and third volumes of To Escape Into Dreams Appendices of: To Escape Into Dreams are companion books second and third volumes of To Escape Into Dreams. Lineages for the following family names are compiled in Volume II of the Appendices of: To Escape Into Dreams. Biller (Bealer, Bealor, Biler, Bhlen, [Bllen]) Giordano (Giordino, Gardini, Gardine, Jardine) Leighton Metallo (Matalle, Mattallo, Mattalo, Metalle, Metallo, Mital, Mctal, McTall) Sines (Seignes, Sins, Synes) Vernon, among others. * Volume II of the appendices include lineages of William the Conqueror, Vernons of Haddon Hall and Frederic Lord Leighton.
The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era’s richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.
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Children Remembered discusses the relationship between parents and children in the past. It focuses on the ways in which adults responded to the untimely deaths of children, whether and how they expressed their grief. The study engages with the hypothesis of 'parental indifference' associated with the French cultural historian Philippe Ariès by analysing the changing risk of mortality since the sixteenth century and assessing its consequences. It uses paintings and poems to describe feelings and emotions in ways that are not only highly original, but also challenge traditional disciplinary conventions. The circumstances of infant and child mortality are considered for France and England, wh...