Clara's Grand Tour - 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 Clara's Grand Tour write by Glynis Ridley. This book was released on 2005-11. Clara's Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.
Clara
Clara - 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 Clara write by Emily Arnold McCully. This book was released on 2016. Clara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A rhinoceros tours Europe in the mid-18th century and becomes a sensation--based on a true story"--
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros - 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 Rhinoceros write by Kelly Enright. This book was released on 2008-06-24. Rhinoceros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rhinoceros’s horn and massive leathery frame belie its docile and solitary nature, causing the animal to be consistently perceived by humans as a monster to be feared. Kelly Enright now deftly sifts fact from fiction in Rhinoceros. Enright chronicles the vexed interactions between humans and rhinos, from early sightings that mistook the rhinoceros for the mythical unicorn to the eighteenth-century display of the rhinoceros in Europe as a wonder of nature and its introduction to the American public in 1830. The rhinoceros has long been a prized hunting object as well, whether for its horn as a valuable ingredient in Asian medicine or as a coveted trophy by nineteenth-century big-game hunters such as Theodore Roosevelt, and the book explains how such practices have led to the rhino’s status as an endangered species. Enright also considers portrayals of the animal in film, literature, and art, all in the service of discovering whether the reputed savagery of the rhino is a reality or a legacy of its mythic past. A wide-ranging, highly illustrated study, Rhinoceros will be essential for scholars and animal lovers alike.
Making Stars
Making Stars - 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 Making Stars write by Nora Nachumi. This book was released on 2022-07-15. Making Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.
Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood - 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 Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood write by Adeline Mueller. This book was released on 2021-07-16. Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In this book, Adeline Mueller examines how Mozart shaped the social and cultural reevaluation of childhood during the Austrian Enlightenment. Whether in a juvenile sonata printed with his age on the title page, a concerto for a father and daughter, a lullaby, a musical dice game, or a mass for the consecration of an orphanage church, Mozart’s music and persona transformed attitudes toward children’s agency, intellectual capacity, relationships with family and friends, political and economic value, work, school, and leisure time. Thousands of children across the Habsburg Monarchy were affected by the Salzburg prodigy and the idea he embodied: that childhood itself could be packaged, consumed, deployed, “performed”—in short, mediated—through music. This book builds upon a new understanding of the history of childhood as dynamic and reciprocal, rather than a mere projection or fantasy—as something mediated not just through texts, images, and objects but also through actions. Drawing on a range of evidence, from children’s periodicals to Habsburg court edicts and spurious Mozart prints, Mueller shows that while we need the history of childhood to help us understand Mozart, we also need Mozart to help us understand the history of childhood.
