The Rules Of Gentility

Author : Janet Mullany
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061753378
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rules of Gentility written by Janet Mullany and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regency heiress Philomena Wellesley-Clegg has rather strong opinions about men and clothing. As to the former, so far two lords, a viscount, and a mad poet have fallen far short of her expectations. But she is about to meet Inigo Linsley, an unshaven, wickedly handsome man with a scandalous secret. He's nothing she ever dreamed she'd want—why then can she not stop thinking about how he looks in his breeches? A delightful marriage of Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones's Diary, Janet Mullany's The Rules of Gentility transports us to the days before designer shoes, apple martinis, and speed dating—when great bonnets, punch at Almack's, and the marriage mart were in fashion—and captivates us with a winsome heroine who learns that some rules in society are made to be broken.

Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651369
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of American Architecture written by Mark Gelernter and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of American architecture, from the first civilizations in America to the present.

Author : Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920801
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen on Display written by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a dissertation in history at the U. of Virginia, this study recreates the societal mores displayed at summer resorts at Virginia Springs from 1790-1860, as this was recorded in the letters and other archives of families who sojourned there. Lewis (history, Widener U.) suggests that her history provides a new insight into plantation society by recording responses to unusual events and lack of routine. She supplements the account with some analysis of the sources for the romantic and idealistic views of this culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Emily Thornwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility written by Emily Thornwell and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon Fyfe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567151980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Power and Modernity written by Gordon Fyfe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and negkected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized conflicts of taste, cultural independence, and interdependence between opposed art institutions and the Treasury.

Author : Clark Hulse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226360522
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rule of Art written by Clark Hulse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social, ideological, and aesthetic bases for the links between them? And what role do those links play in creating the humanistic culture that still has power over us today? These are the questions Clark Hulse takes up in this sophisticated interdisciplinary study of Renaissance aesthetics. Proposing an archeology of artistic knowledge, Hulse examines the theoretical language through which the poets, painters, and patrons of the Renaissance conceived of the relationship between the arts. That language is embedded in what he calls a "rule of art," a specific set of categories, assumptions, and practices that defined the two art forms and the relationship between them. Hulse charts the rise of both forms to the status of liberal arts requiring special intellectual training for artist and patron alike. In the process, he uncovers the history of the practice of theory in the Renaissance, revealing how artistic discourse lived in the world.

Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849125
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of Southern Culture written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending his investigation into the ethical life of the white American South beyond what he wrote in Southern Honor (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown explores three major themes in southern history: the political aspects of the South's code of honor, th

Author : Ofer Gal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400773838
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World written by Ofer Gal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century. People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors. The earth itself has been set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, sun spots. Even the motion of terrestrial objects—so close at hand and seemingly obvious—was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experiences of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, collectors.

Author : Thomas Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comic Songs written by Thomas Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hudson (grocer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comic songs. Collection the first (-thirteenth). written by Thomas Hudson (grocer.) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: