Discerning Characters - 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 Discerning Characters write by Christopher J. Lukasik. This book was released on 2011-07-11. Discerning Characters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik argues, was at the center of the post-Revolutionary novel, which imagined physiognomic distinction as providing stability during a time of cultural division and political turmoil. As Lukasik shows, this tension between a model of character grounded in the fluid performances of the self and one grounded in the permanent features of the face would continue to shape not only the representation of social distinction within the novel but, more broadly, the practices of literary production and reception in nineteenth-century America across a wide range of media. The result is a new interdisciplinary interpretation of the rise of the novel in America that reconsiders the political and social aims of the genre during the fifty years following the Revolution. In so doing, Discerning Characters powerfully rethinks how we have read—and continue to read—both novels and each other.
Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1)
Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1) - 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 Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1) write by Emma Lombard. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slow-burn historical women’s fiction with a splash of romance—think: the love child of books like Bridgerton mixed with Pirates of the Caribbean. As the first full-length novel in The White Sails Series, DISCERNING GRACE captures the spirit of an independent woman whose feminine lens blows the ordered patriarchal decks of a 19th century tall ship to smithereens. Wilful Grace Baxter, will not marry old Lord Silverton with his salivary incontinence and dead-mouse stink. Discovering she is a pawn in an arrangement between slobbery Silverton and her calculating father, Grace is devastated when Silverton reveals his true callous nature. Refusing this fate, Grace resolves to stow away. Heading to the docks, disguised as a lad to ease her escape, she encounters smooth-talking naval recruiter, Gilly, who lures her aboard HMS Discerning with promises of freedom and exploration in South America. When Grace's big mouth lands her bare-bottomed over a cannon for insubordination, her identity is exposed. The captain wants her back in London but his orders, to chart the icy archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, forbid it. Lieutenant Seamus Fitzwilliam gallantly offers to take Grace off the fretting captain's hands by placing her under his protection. Grace must now win over the crew she betrayed with her secret, while managing her feelings towards her taciturn protector, whose obstinate chivalry stifles her new-found independence. But when Grace disregards Lieutenant Fitzwilliam's warnings about the dangers of the unexplored archipelago, it costs a friend his life and she realises she is not as free as she believes. DISCERNING GRACE is historical women's fiction that will appeal to fans of Claire Fraser from Outlander and Demelza Poldark from Poldark—in other words, fans of feisty historical female leads. It is a B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree. The White Sails Series complete collection box set features one sassy heroine aboard a ship full of sailors. Prepare for historical romance full of strong alpha males with a trace of vulnerability, superstitious sailors, epic sea adventures that take you from the cobbled streets of London to a tall ship setting, and ultimately a happy ending. If you love a man in uniform, strong women who don’t like being told what to do, fated mates, and happily-ever-afters, hop aboard the boxset of The White Sails Series: - Discerning Grace - Grace on the Horizon - Grace Arising - Christmas at Gilly Downs Also available as audiobooks narrated by Siobhan Waring.
The Naming of Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens
The Naming of Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens - 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 Naming of Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens write by Elizabeth Hope Gordon. This book was released on 1917. The Naming of Characters in the Works of Charles Dickens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère - 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 "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère write by Jean de La Bruyère. This book was released on 2023-11-11. The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère" by Jean de La Bruyère (translated by Henri Van Laun). Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Tale Illustrative of Scripture Characters
Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Tale Illustrative of Scripture Characters - 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 Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Tale Illustrative of Scripture Characters write by Frances Elizabeth Georgina Carey BROCK. This book was released on 1873. Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Tale Illustrative of Scripture Characters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mrs. Wilverley teaches her children about courage by using the people in the Old Testament as examples.
