Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination write by Charles A. Riley. This book was released on 2001. Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernism generally signifies the efforts of late 19th century European painters, writers, musicians and philosophers who consciously broke with tradition. This is an examination of what that meant for those aristocrats who were also modernists.
The Last Libertines
The Last Libertines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Libertines write by Benedetta Craveri. This book was released on 2020-10-20. The Last Libertines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during—and was eventually destroyed by—the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of “seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy’s final moment of grace—a moment when it seemed to the nation’s elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge the widespread demand for change, and in doing so reconcile itself with Enlightenment ideals of justice, tolerance, and citizenship.” Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for “the romantic character of their exploits and amours—but also by the keenness with which they experienced this crisis in the civilization of the ancien régime, of which they themselves were the emblem.” Displaying the aristocratic virtues of “dignity, courage, refinement of manners, culture, [and] wit,” the Duc de Lauzun, the Vicomte de Ségur, the Duc de Brissac, the Comte de Narbonne, the Chevalier de Boufflers, the Comte de Ségur, and the Comte de Vaudreuil were at the same time “irreducible individualists” and true “sons of the Enlightenment,” all of them ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they found themselves condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings the past to life, powerfully dramatizing a turbulent time that was at once the last act of a now-vanished world and the first act of our own.
Aristocracy and the Modern World
Aristocracy and the Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristocracy and the Modern World write by Ellis Wasson. This book was released on 2006-07-14. Aristocracy and the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive study of the European aristocracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination
The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination write by Adeline Grand-Clément. This book was released on 2021-12-16. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also theatrical performance, museum exhibitions, advertising, television series, historical reenactment and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique.
The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture
The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture write by Stefania Michelucci. This book was released on 2020-05-04. The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic inequality and the entrenchment of new class distinctions lend a new glamor to the idea of aristocracy: witness the worldwide popularity of Downton Abbey, or the seemingly insatiable public fascination with the private lives of the British royal family. This collection of new essays investigates the enduring attraction to the icon of the aristocrat and the spectacle of aristocratic society. It traces the ambivalent reactions the aristocracy provokes and the needs (political, ideological, psychological, and otherwise) it caters to in modern times when the economic power of the landed classes have been eroded and their political role curtailed. In this interdisciplinary collection, aristocracy is considered from multiple viewpoints, including British and American literature, European history and politics, cultural studies, linguistics, visual arts, music, and media studies.
