Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Author: Michael Fry

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 0330539973

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The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman


Edinburgh History of Reading

Edinburgh History of Reading

Author: Jonathan Rose

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1474461891

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesShows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticismPortrays everyday reading in art Includes reading across national and cultural linesCommon Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives.


Edinburgh History of Reading

Edinburgh History of Reading

Author: Rose Jonathan Rose

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 147446193X

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nationsSubversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.


Edinburgh History of Reading

Edinburgh History of Reading

Author: Mary Hammond

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1474446094

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices from China in the 6th century BCE to Britain in the 18th centuryEmploys a range of methodologies from close textual analysis to quantitative data on book ownershipExamines a wide range of texts and ways of reading them from English poetry and funeral elegies to translated books in PeruChallenges period-based models of readership historyEarly Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800, and ends with an analysis of the surprisingly enduring practice of reading aloud.


The Edinburgh Dead

The Edinburgh Dead

Author: Brian Ruckley

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2011-08-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0316126926

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Edinburgh: 1828 In the starkly-lit operating theaters of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewhere, there are those experimenting with more sinister forces. Amongst the crowded, sprawling tenements of the labyrinthine Old Town, a body is found, its neck torn to pieces. Charged with investigating the murder is Adam Quire, Officer of the newly- formed Edinburgh Police. The trail will lead him into the deepest reaches of the city's criminal underclass, and to the highest echelons of the filthy rich. Soon Quire will discover that a darkness is crawling through this city of enlightenment -- and no one is safe from its corruption. The Edinburgh Dead is a powerful fusion of gothic horror, history, and the fantastical.


Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768

Author: Molly Greene

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-07-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0748694005

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This volume considers the period of Ottoman rule in Greek history in light of changing scholarship about this era and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience.


The Finishing School

The Finishing School

Author: Muriel Spark

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 178211758X

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'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.


The History of Reading

The History of Reading

Author: Shafquat Towheed

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415484206

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'The History of Reading' offers an accessible overview of this developing discipline, from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of book clubs.


Edinburgh: Mapping the City

Edinburgh: Mapping the City

Author: Chris Fleet

Publisher:

Published: 2023-10-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781839830433

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An accessible, enjoyable, attractive and browsable history of Edinburgh as seen through maps, that will appeal to all those with an interest in Edinburgh and Scottish history.


Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800

Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800

Author: Stephen W. Brown

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 0748628967

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Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.