Nineteenth-Century Interiors
Nineteenth-Century Interiors

Author: Clive Edwards

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1000961443

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This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style, and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period. Although in some senses every interior is unique so that a style canon may seem to be meaningless, there have been important historical trends or styles that have influenced individual interiors, and these have formed the groundwork from which other styles and tastes have developed and changed. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history.

Blood Royal
Blood Royal

Author: Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0571288901

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The four Hanoverian King Georges may have become fixed in history as 'faintly absurd, certainly unattractive, figures' but in this colourful account of their lives and times, families and courts, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson restores a sprinkling of credit where it has been due. His account does not neglect the marital discords of George I, the towering paternal disdain of George II or the tragically misunderstood 'madness' of George III. But the reader is also encouraged to consider how the Hanoverian monarchs reacted to the climate of art and fashion in their times, from George II's espousal of Handel to George IV's patronage of Beau Brummell. By its own admission not a comprehensive history, Blood Royal is nevertheless an elegant and shining string of linked vignettes and short studies.

English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author: C. Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-16

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0230503403

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This work provides a detailed account of word level pronunciation in England and Scotland between 1700 and 1900. All major and minor source materials are presented in depth and there is a close discussion of contemporary attitudes to pronunciation standards and orthographic reform. The materials are presented in three chronological periods: 1700-1750, 1750-1800 and the Nineteenth century, so that the reader is able not only to see the main characteristics of the pronunciation of both vowels and consonants in each period, but can also compare developments from one period to another, thus identifying ongoing changes to the phonology.