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Theatric Revolution

Drama, Censorship, and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832

By: David Worrall

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Theatric Revolution

Drama, Censorship, and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832

By: David Worrall

This book uncovers the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with freedom of expression. Theatric Revolution examines this censorship and those who struggled against it.

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416

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199276757

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9780199276752

Fashioning Adultery

Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740

By: David M. Turner

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Fashioning Adultery

Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740

By: David M. Turner

This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital litigation - it documents a growing diversity in perceptions of marital infidelity in this period, against the backdrop of an explosion in print culture and a decline in the judicial regulation of sexual immorality. In general terms the book charts and explains a gradual transformation of ideas about extra-marital sex, whereby the powerfully established religious argument that adultery was universally a sin became increasingly open to challenge. The book charts significant developments in the idiom in which sexually transgressive behaviour was discussed, showing how evolving ideas of civility and social refinement and new thinking about gender difference influenced assessments of immoral behaviour.

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253

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Cambridge University Press

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1139435558

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9781139435550

Dark Eden

The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

By: David Miller

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Dark Eden

The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

By: David Miller

An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how for many Americans in the period around the Civil War nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanised and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers and artists found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.

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368

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Cambridge University Press

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0521375533

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9780521375535

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

By: David M. Turner

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Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

By: David M. Turner

This study examines physical disability in 18th century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences.

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230

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Routledge

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0415886449

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9780415886444

Paul Mellon's Legacy

A Passion for British Art : Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art

By: John Baskett,Jules David Prown,Duncan Robinson,Brian Allen,William S. Reese,William J. Reese,Yale Center for British Art,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Paul Mellon's Legacy

A Passion for British Art : Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art

By: John Baskett,Jules David Prown,Duncan Robinson,Brian Allen,William S. Reese,William J. Reese,Yale Center for British Art,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

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360

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Yale University Press

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0300117469

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9780300117462

William Hodges 1744-1797

The Art of Exploration

By: William Hodges,David Attenborough

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The Art of Exploration

By: William Hodges,David Attenborough

William Hodges is well known as the artist who accompanied Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific as official landscape painter. This book forms a major reappraisal of his career and reputation, arguing a central place for him in the development of British art. The nine essays included in this catalogue are by some of the foremost scholars in the area. They consider Hodges's work comparatively, in terms of the rise of ethnology, the investigation of Indian history, the encounter with peoples 'without history' and the development of empirical science and rationalism.

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Yale University Press

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030010376X

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9780300103762

Book's by David H. Solkin

Theatric Revolution

Theatric Revolution

Fashioning Adultery

Fashioning Adultery

Dark Eden

Dark Eden

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Disability in Eighteenth-century England

Paul Mellon's Legacy

Paul Mellon's Legacy

William Hodges 1744-1797

William Hodges 1744-1797

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