This book is a unique compilation of literary history, autobiography, travel writing, and, of course, the history of book collecting.
By analysing how individuals interacted with cultural discourses surrounding the body, sexuality, and sin, the book explores how the concepts which defined prostitution in the Middle Ages shaped individual lives, and how individuals were ...
Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and ...
James Boswell. Athenæum . acceptance as Secretary of the Royal Academy , iii ... author , iii . 481 ; useful , in subjects of taste , v . 313 ; felt by ... in Author . a Hypochondriack , i . 493 , n . 4 ; Doug- las Cause , ii . 57 ...
Shakespeare is both the world's most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself. This volume unites these creative practices.
... James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 319–20. King's fictive letter includes a ... in Author/Publisher Relations During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris ...
... James Boswell's biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. [1791]), which turned Johnson into a “Herculean figure ... in (author is reduced to the etymological auctor, while writer is limited to one who practices the art of ...
A chronological account of transgender theory documents major movements, writings, and events, offering insight into the contributions of key historical figures while discussing treatments of transgenderism in pop culture. Original.
Recognized as the best history of Harford County ever published, this work's genealogical importance is based on its numerous biographical sketches of the county's leading citizens, as well as lists of non-associators and non-enrollers, ...
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