wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830
ISBN: 9780804732697 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one of the precursors to the modern nation, not as a homogeneous, stable unit, but as a dynamic process, a dialogue between heterogeneous elements. Far from being constituted by a single Act of Union, the author contends, Britain was forged--in all the variant senses of that word--from multiple acts of union and dislocation over time. Accordingly, each of the first five chapters focuses on a discursive...
Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after ...
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273,09 zł |
Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874
ISBN: 9780268025779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song."
A study of the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how tex...
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520,91 zł |
Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874
ISBN: 9780268025786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender", Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the midnineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song." Through her considerations of collections of Irish music by the Neals, Edward Bunting, and George Petrie, antiquarian tracts by Joseph Cooper Walker and Charlotte Brooke, lyrics and "The Wild Irish Girl" by Sidney Owenson, and songs by Thomas...
In "Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender", Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the midninete...
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121,33 zł |
The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781908980311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland’s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global superpower. It also witnessed religious, economic, and social upheavals, the beginnings of industrialisation, and the start of the Clearances, as well as the astonishing efflorescence of intellectual activity known as the Scottish Enlightenment. This International Companion offers new perspectives on how the long eighteenth century...
The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland’s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts...
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126,44 zł |
Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780521832830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
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437,50 zł |
Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780521180764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
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216,69 zł |
Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture
ISBN: 9781138107816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into five sections that explore: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work, Burns's early publication in North America, Burns's reception in the Americas, Burns's creation as a site of cultural memory, and...
While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robe...
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222,47 zł |
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising
ISBN: 9781316510810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial enterprise in Darien (1695-1700); the 1715 Jacobite Rising; and the 1745 Jacobite Rising. She explores the initial inscription of these episodes in forms such as ballads, official documents, manuscript newsletters,...
Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in e...
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365,64 zł |