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When People Wrote Letters
"A tale told through wonderfully witty and moving letters, photographs, clippings and pamphlets, excepts from an unpublished autobiography and from a family history narrative, along with other saved objects. The main characters are Betty and Edith Stedman, the author's mother and great-aunt, two eloquent and adventurous women whose relationship serves as the book's central narrative. Their travels, and the travels of other family members, take the reader from nineteenth and early twentieth century New England, to Key West in the 1830s, to the Minnesota Territories in the 1860s, to France during World War I, to small towns in Texas and to China in the 1920s, and to Spain in the early 1930s, and across America during World War II" -- Back cover.
Shakespeare And The Victorians
Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
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Vanities of the Eye
Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe, a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was the focus of much debate. In medicine, art theory, science, religion, and philosophy, sight came to be characterised as uncertain or paradoxical - mental images no longer resembled the external world. Was seeing really believing? Stuart Clark explores the controversial debates of the time - from the fantasies and hallucinations of melancholia, to the illusions of magic, art, demonic deceptions, and witchcraft. The truth and function of religious images and the authenticity of miracles and visions were also questioned with new vigour, affec...
Elizabethan Drama
Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period.
Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage
Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation—a reformed drama—and a producer of Protestant habits of thought—a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society. Drawing on the insights of symbolic anthropologists, Diehl explores the relationship between the suppression of late medieval religious cultures, with their rituals, symbols, plays, processions, and devotional practices, and the emergence of a popular theater ...
Ambition, A History
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife
Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.
