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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The 19th century in Britain was a period of innovative and creative theatrical activity that ranged from Romantic closet dramas in the early years of the century through melodramas dominated by spectacle and emotion to social dramas; it also included a restructuring of business practices that took the British theater into the next century. The development of drama was driven by the changing composition and tastes of the public.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The 20th century had the potential to touch a raw nerve & humorists had a matching potential to hit it with a slapstick to invoke laughter at the absurdity of an age that could swing between the existentialist black humor of totalitarianism & the Dadaist farce of a king on spinning bicycle wheels. Humor is about discerning a people through literary modes such as irony, parody, satire, farce, wit, absurdity, & comic stories that expose incongruities...
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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Essays on British travel writers during a time when professionalism was increasingly the norm, including professional journalists, editors and correspondents accustomed to writing on contract and with deadlines. Includes discussion of scientific societies, which through their journals and meetings sought to encourage explorers to write for the general public as well. This was a period when many technical and economic innovations made travel easier,...
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use...
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Essays on British travel writers explores the political and social changes that occurred after World War II. Technology such as color television, home video, the Internet and CD-ROM's brought people pictures from around the world broadened their interest in travel. Includes discussion of the various types of travel literature, including political, scientific, historical, and adventurous as well as the role of women travel writers.
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Essays on British travel writers during a period when travel and travel writing were transformed by education, technology and politics. Air transportation and the automobile impacted travel during this period as did the advent of color film and movie cameras. Travel guides, rather than entertaining and informative travel books for the armchair traveler, were written. This period produced globe-trotters and expatriates who wrote significant bodies...
10) Poetry for students: Volume 7presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Charlie has a foolproof plan for the first day at her new middle school. Even though she's used to starting over as the new kid-thanks to her military family's constant moving-making friends has never been easy for her. But this time, her first impression needs to last, since this is where her family plans to settle for good. So she's hiding any interests that may seem 'babyish,' updating her look, and doing her best to leave her shyness behind her...but...
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