This Blessed Plot - this England
Title | This Blessed Plot - this England PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice L. Rider |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
Albion
Title | Albion PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 533 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307424650 |
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
Richard II
Title | Richard II PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Signet Classics |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1963-05 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780451522177 |
With a special introduction by Kenneth Muir of the University of Liverpool, this edition includes a general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, sources from which Shakespeare drew his work, and a new, comprehensive stage history of Richard II.
This Blessed Plot
Title | This Blessed Plot PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Young |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 558 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9780333579923 |
Addresses a question that has remained unanswered since the end of World War II: is Britain a European country? Rewriting the inside history of Britain and the European Union, each phase of the history in this book is built around the role of a single character, starting with Churchill and concluding with Tony Blair. The narrative is also built around the careers of Ernest Bevin, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher.
This is Our Land
Title | This is Our Land PDF eBook |
Author | Emporos |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
Henry IV
Title | Henry IV PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Nation and Narration
Title | Nation and Narration PDF eBook |
Author | Homi K. Bhabha |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136769315 |
Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.