| |
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-29
PDF
|
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-29
ePub
|
The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The previous edition, edited by Henry Maas, contained just over 880.)The letters cover the whole range of Housman's daily activities, whether he writes as poet, Professor of Latin, son, brother,...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2007-03-29
PDF
|
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-22
PDF
|
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-22
PDF
|
Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'.Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-02-22
ePub
|
Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-02-03
PDF, ePub
|
Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-02-01
ePub
|
|
|
|
|
The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Excelling at Latin and Greek, he crossed the color line both socially and intellectually with his entry...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-11-20
PDF
|
This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-11-09
PDF, ePub
|
'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.'
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-11-09
ePub
|
'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.'
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-11-09
PDF
|
This book is the first full-scale edition of the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial. A comprehensive introduction addresses the role of epigram in commemorating monuments and occasions, the connection between spectacle and imperial panegyric in Martial's oeuvre,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-10-26
PDF
|
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-10-16
ePub
|
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-10-16
PDF
|
The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-10-05
PDF
|
An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism.An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-09-28
ePub
|
Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-09-28
ePub
|