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2 giorni fa · Victorian Orientalism was all pervasive: it is prominent in fiction by William Thackeray, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, but is also to be found in works by Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others.
1 giorno fa · Writing about a group, the historian is unable frequently to describe precisely what it is. The American patriciate is no exception to the general problem of defining group identity. The historian approaches group definition, or an approximation of it, through interaction between historical evidence bearing upon group membership and analytic ...
5 giorni fa · Eliot in Portugal, 1935–65. E liot’s letters to Emily Hale have brought to light the poet’s experiences in Portugal in the spring of 1938 during a three-week tour sponsored by the autocratic and profascist regime instituted in 1926 and headed by Oliveira Salazar since 1932.
1 giorno fa · Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of ...
3 giorni fa · William Blackwood and Sons, 1878 (1871-72), Cabinet Edition. Publisher. George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https: ...
3 giorni fa · Eliot, George, 1819-1880. "Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft." Leader, vol. VI, 13 October 1855, pp. 988-89.
5 giorni fa · grandson of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. He was a fifth cousin to the poet T.S. Eliot and a distant descendent of Washington University co-founder, William Greenleaf Eliot. Books about the Eliot Family
