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Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Parallel: Or, A Collection of Extraordinary Cases, Relating to Concealed Births, and Disputed Successions
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Author: Matthew C. SalyerPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498562914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century “romance” hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that popular Romantic novels such as Scott’s Waverley and Cooper’s The Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the modern nation state.
The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea
Author: Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of WinchilseaPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part I Vol 1
Author: Stuart CurranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749231
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Reveals the extent to which Charlotte Turner Smith's work constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry, representing the turbulent decade of the 1790s on its social and political, as well as literary, planes with an unparalleled richness of detail and an unblinkered vision.
The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series
Author: David BaldwinPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075247992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a bricklayer, he could read Latin. Reluctant to give any account of his background, he eventually told his employer that he was a natural son of Richard III. Yet, if this was true, why was he not publicly acknowledged by the king? Richard III made provision for his other bastards, John of Gloucester and Katherine. The fact that he was called Richard Plantagenet is also revealing. Had he simply been Richard III's bastard, he would have been styled 'of Gloucester' or given the name of his birthplace. And, most tellingly of all, where is the evidence that Prince Richard actually died? David Baldwin opens up an entirely new line of investigation and offers a startling solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in English history and a final exoneration for Richard III.
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part I
Author: Stuart CurranPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000743942
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Reveals the extent to which Charlotte Turner Smith's work constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry, representing the turbulent decade of the 1790s on its social and political, as well as literary, planes with an unparalleled richness of detail and an unblinkered vision.
Catalogue of the Principle Portion of the Valuable Library of Goddard Johnson ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, 3 Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday March 17th, 1843, and Three Following Days, (Sunday Excepted) at One O'clock, Precisely
Author: The Survival of Princes in the Tower
Author: Matthew LewisPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of a ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into the context of their disappearance and the characters of the suspects Matthew Lewis examines the motives and opportunities afresh as well as asking a crucial but often overlooked question: what if there was no murder? What if Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York survived their uncle’s reign and even that of their brother-in-law Henry VII? There are glimpses of their possible survival and compelling evidence to give weight to those glimpses, which is considered alongside the possibility of their deaths to provide a rounded and complete assessment of the most fascinating mystery in history.
Children Of Richard III
Author: Peter HammondPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, his illegitimate children John of Gloucester, and Katherine, who became countess of Huntingdon, and to other possible children, particularly Richard Plantagenet of Eastwell. Much information has been gathered from all known sources and there are discussions of the disputed date of birth and death at the age of about eight years of Edward of Middleham.
