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Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:John Thomson

1 See p.47. COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS. HE number of persons who obtain out-door or street work at Covent Garden Market is so considerable that it is necessary to devote more ...
( Category: Victorian March 2,2020 )
Antisthenes of Athens by Prince Susan;
epub |eng | | Author:Prince, Susan;

Context of Preservation This passage comes near the end of Galen’s introduction to his topic, how to cure intellectual errors (ἁμαρτήματα) of the soul. Correction of emotional passions (πάθη) is ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 2,2020 )
C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
epub |eng | | Author:Doris T. Myers

Abolishing the Controllers: The First Three Chronicles It cannot be overemphasized that the didacticism of the Chronicles consists in the education of moral and aesthetic feelings rather than the cognitive ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Deidre Shauna Lynch
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Deidre Shauna Lynch [Lynch, Deidre Shauna]

VOLUMINOUSNESS: ON GOING STEADY WITH NOVELS It is no surprise, either, that the novel is central to the discussion of “Voluminous Authors” and the particularly “intimate . . . familiarity” ...
( Category: History of Books March 2,2020 )
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | 2002-10-11 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

Written only twenty years later in the century, Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth strikes an altogether different note on the register of “becoming,” one in which the writer describes a ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Alexandra Harris [Harris, Alexandra]

Nineteen-thirties culture pastorally reconvened the lost personalities of the village. In Bernard Leach we find the artist as potter, in Hennell the artist as carpenter. In T. S. Eliot we ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 2,2020 )
Epic Romance: Homer to Milton by Colin Burrow
epub |eng | 1993-04-15 | Author:Colin Burrow [Burrow, Colin]

Vedrai de gli avi il divulgato onore, lunge precorso in loco erto e solingo; tu dietro anco rimanʼ, lento cursore, per questo de la gloria illustre arringo. Su, su, te ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 2,2020 )
Enjoying It by Alfie Bown
epub |eng | 2015-12-10 | Author:Alfie Bown [Bown, Alfie]

Even here the bias is implicit. It is as if already existing and constant structures of gender, class, race etc. explain and shape contemporary societies and everyday lives. The course ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 2,2020 )
The Genius of Language by Wendy Lesser
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

ITALIAN Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald In early 1959, while we were living in a small seaside town along the Ligurian coast, Italian television made a documentary of us. ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Ogling Ladies by Summers Sandra Lindemann;
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Summers, Sandra Lindemann;

7 Knight or Eye Candy? THE GENDERING GAZE IN HARTMANN VON AUE’S IWEIN The queen awakes from her nap and walks in on an informal gathering of knights who are ...
( Category: Women March 2,2020 )
Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles by R. Andrew McDonald
epub |eng | | Author:R. Andrew McDonald

Similarly, despite what may appear as the propensity of Manx dynasts to perpetrate violence against one another in the folios of the text (more below), we also see instances in ...
( Category: Medieval March 2,2020 )
In Pursuit of the Great Peace by Zhao Lu;
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Zhao Lu;

Conclusion In this book, I have traced the people and texts in the Han dynasty that scholars often label as “Confucian,” “Daoist,” “Old Script,” “New Script,” and so forth, and ...
( Category: Asian March 2,2020 )
The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives by Erin James
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Erin James

5 National Myths and Ontological Boundaries in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy Early in Ben Okri’s Booker Prize–winning novel The Famished Road (1991), a poor African mother tells her ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 2,2020 )
Conversations, Volume 2 by Jorge Luis Borges
mobi |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

BORGES. That’s the problem with heaven . . . no, but perhaps there’s a meagre population in heaven, no? Since many are called but few are chosen. Here I remember ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 1,2020 )
Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers 1660-1886 by Humphrey Jennings
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:Humphrey Jennings [Jennings, Humphrey]

174 OPENING OF THE RAILWAY September 15, 1830 The Northumbrian was appointed to take the lead of the procession, drawing a splendid carriage, appropriated to the reception of the Duke ...
( Category: European March 1,2020 )

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