London Past and Present, Wheatley

Автор: Wheatley
Название: London Past and Present
ISBN: 1108028071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108028073
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Published in 1891 in three volumes, this is a fascinating topographical dictionary covering a thousand years of history. Many of London`s historic streets and buildings were being redeveloped during the rapid urban expansion of the Victorian period, and Wheatley mines historical, literary and architectural sources to preserve their memory.

Автор: Prothero
Название: English Farming, Past and Present
ISBN: 1108062482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108062480
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Описание: Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851-1937) was an English author and politician. Published in 1912, his influential survey of English farming since the middle ages is a revised and expanded version of a book originally published in 1888 as The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. It remains a classic text.

Автор: Pisani Michael V.
Название: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
ISBN: 1609382307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382308
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre--accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller--than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.

Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music--in addition to song--was a common feature in the production of stage plays.

The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe.

Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Автор: Malcolm
Название: Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 3 Volume Set
ISBN: 1108081576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108081573
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Born in Philadelphia, James Peller Malcolm (1767–1815) travelled to London in 1787, remaining there until his death. Initially hoping for a career as a landscape painter, he became well known for his engravings, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1792, and for his books on history that made extensive use of original local records. First published in 1808, Anecdotes gives a typically personal and often light-hearted account of the history and customs of Malcolm's adopted city. Illustrated with his engravings, the work ranges from considering the diet and dress of the ancient Britons to suggesting that the Great Fire of London was state-sanctioned to rid the city of plague. This is the 1811 second edition of a valuable and often entertaining insight into English social history. The volumes cover such topics as the origin of English character, religion and superstition, and amusements and popular pastimes.

Автор: Edited by Andrzej Olechnowicz
Название: The monarchy and the british nation, 1780 to the present
ISBN: 0521606357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521606356
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Описание: This book addresses two fundamental questions about the British monarchy in the modern period. What has been its function in the political and social life of the nation? Why, for much but by no means all of the modern period, has it been so popular with its subjects?

Автор: Wheatley
Название: London Past and Present
ISBN: 1108028063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108028066
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Описание: Published in 1891 in three volumes, this is a fascinating topographical dictionary covering a thousand years of history. Many of London`s historic streets and buildings were being redeveloped during the rapid urban expansion of the Victorian period, and Wheatley mines historical, literary and architectural sources to preserve their memory.

Автор: Hawkesworth
Название: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
ISBN: 1108065503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108065504
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Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.

Автор: Hawkesworth
Название: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
ISBN: 110806549X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108065498
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Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.

Автор: Hawkesworth
Название: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
ISBN: 1108065511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108065511
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Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.

Автор: Wavrin
Название: Recueil des chroniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne, ? present nomm? Engleterre
ISBN: 1108047815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108047814
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Описание: Compiled by French knight Jean de Wavrin in the fifteenth century, this is the first history of England of this magnitude. This volume, published in 1868, covers the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V.

Автор: Wheatley
Название: Hogarth`s London
ISBN: 1108070256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108070256
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Описание: First published in 1909, this illustrated study considers the work of the artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697-1764), focusing on his depiction of London and its inhabitants. Written by the bibliographer and editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917), it skilfully unveils the many facets of life in eighteenth-century London.

Автор: Jameson
Название: Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London
ISBN: 1108073840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108073844
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A professional author of art and literary criticism as well as travel writing, Anna Jameson (1794-1860) published this book on the great private art collections of London in 1844. With an introductory essay and a catalogue raisonnee for each collection, this is a fascinating guide to mid-nineteenth-century taste in art.