William Byrd and His Contemporaries - 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 William Byrd and His Contemporaries write by Philip Brett. This book was released on 2007. William Byrd and His Contemporaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover - 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 Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover write by Kevin Joel Berland. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.
William Byrd
William Byrd - 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 William Byrd write by John Harley. This book was released on 2017-07-05. William Byrd available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive study of William Byrds life (1540-1623) and works to appear for sixty years, and fully takes into consideration recent scholarship. The biographical section includes many newly discovered facts about Byrd and his family, while in the chapters dealing with his music an attempt is made for the first time to outline the chronology of all his compositions. The book begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on a completely fresh examination of original documents, which are quoted extensively. Several previously known documents have now been identified as being in Byrds hand, and some fresh holographs have been discovered. A number of questions such as his parentage and date of birth have been conclusively settled. The book continues with a survey of Byrds music which pays particular attention to its chronological development, and links it where possible to the events and background of his life. A series of appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a summary catalogue of works. A bibliography and index complete the book. Besides musical illustrations there is a series of plates illustrating documents and places associated with Byrd.
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage - 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 On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage write by Kenneth A. Lockridge. This book was released on 1994-09. On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illuminates the ragged edge where masculinity and colonial identity meet. . . . [the book] will undoubtedly send Jefferson scholars scurrying back to their notes. . . . Most significant, by being among the first to tackle the subject of masculinity in early America, Lockridge forces colonial scholars to reexamine the lives of men they thought they already knew too well." —William and Mary Quarterly Two of the greatest of Virginia gentlemen, William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson, each kept a commonplace book--in effect, a journal where men were to collect wisdom in the form of anecdotes and quotations from their readings with a sense of detachment and scholarship. Writing in these books, each assembled a prolonged series of observations laden with fear and hatred of women. Combining ignorance with myth and misogyny, Byrd's and Jefferson's books reveal their deep ambivalence about women, telling of women's lascivious nature and The Female Creed and invoking the fallible, repulsive, and implicitly corruptible female body as a central metaphor for all tales of social and political corruption. Were these private outbursts meaningless and isolated incidents, attributable primarily to individual pathology, or are they written revelations of the forces working on these men to maintain patriarchal control? Their hatred for women draws upon a kind of misogynistic reserve found in the continental and English intellectual traditions, but it also twists and recontextualizes less misogynistic excerpts to intensified effect. From this interplay of intellectual traditions and the circumstances of each man's life and later behavior arises the possibility one or more specific politics of misogyny is at work here. Kenneth Lockridge's work, replete with excerpts from the books themselves, leads us through these texts, exploring the structures, contexts, and significance of these writings in the wider historical context of gender and power. His book convincingly illustrates the ferocity of early American patriarchal rage; its various meanings, however suggestively explored here, must remain contestable.
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 - 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 Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 write by William Byrd. This book was released on 1941. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia Historical Society and the University of North Carolina Library respectively. cf. Introd.
