Enter Rumour
Title | Enter Rumour PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bernard |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0571287859 |
The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.
Rumour and Renown
Title | Rumour and Renown PDF eBook |
Author | Philip R. Hardie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 707 |
Release | 2012-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521620880 |
Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.
The Plays
Title | The Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 604 |
Release | 1765 |
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Shakespeare's Works
Title | Shakespeare's Works PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1112 |
Release | 1872 |
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The Yale Shakespeare: The second part of King Henry the fourth, ed. by S.B. Hemingway
Title | The Yale Shakespeare: The second part of King Henry the fourth, ed. by S.B. Hemingway PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
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The Yale Shakespeare
Title | The Yale Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Henry IV pt. II
Title | Henry IV pt. II PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
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