The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine

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Published: 1894

Total Pages: 658

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The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.


Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Author: M. Mianowski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0230360297

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Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture.


MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations: Vol. 5: The Breviary of Britain

MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations: Vol. 5: The Breviary of Britain

Author: Humphrey Llwyd

Publisher: MHRA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0947623930

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Humphrey Llwyd's Breviary of Britain (1573) is both the first Tudor description of Britain and a passionate and learned defence of Welsh historical traditions. Featuring the first reference in English to the 'British Empire', Thomas Twyne's translation would influence Elizabethan writers from Michael Drayton to John Dee. The volume also includes relevant illustrative selections of David Powel's History of Cambria (1584). Based on Llwyd's own translation of the medieval Welsh chronicle, Brut y Tywysogyon, Powel's History was an important source for Spenser's Faerie Queene and Drayton's Poly-Olbion, and remained the standard history of medieval Wales until the nineteenth century. Philip Schwyzer is Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He has published extensively on Anglo-Welsh literary relations and visions of British antiquity in the early modern period. His books include Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (2004), Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature (2007); he is co-editor with Willy Maley of Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (2010).