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Jazz Age Barcelona
One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Studying literary journalism, photography, and the city of Barcelona itself, Robert Davidson argues that the explosion of jazz culture and the avant-garde was predominantly fostered by journalists and their positive reception of innovative new art forms and radical politics. Us...
The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe
Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Burns' work across Europe and includes bibliographies of major translations of his work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of his reception on the continent.
Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton: Vice-admiral, Alderman, and Member for York A.D. 1666-1725
In this authoritative biography, Sir Clements Robert Markham tells the story of Robert Fairfax, Vice-Admiral of the Blue and a key figure in early 18th-century British naval history. Born into a distinguished Yorkshire family, Fairfax rose through the ranks of the Royal Navy during an era of expanding maritime power and near-constant war with European rivals. Markham chronicles Fairfax's service in pivotal naval engagements, his leadership during the War of the Spanish Succession, and his principled stance against corruption within the Admiralty. More than just a military life, the biography also explores Fairfax's role as a civic leader, alderman of York, and Member of Parliament, portrayin...
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