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« The author writes like a Briton ». La réception de Balzac en Angleterre
No full textSalazar Philippe-Joseph. « The author writes like a Briton ». La réception de Balzac en Angleterre. In: Littératures classiques, n°33, printemps 1998. Fortunes de Guez de Balzac. pp. 247-262
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'A daughter come home?': the travel writings of Colleen J. McElroy
No full textRoman and Briton women from Britannia
No full textThe purpose of this article is to reflect on women from the ancient society and their studies, especially from Britannia. This work is made up of Romans and Britons women, who composed different costumes, which interspersed, which lived there and which were in some way evidenced by written and/or material vestiges. This was not a homogenous group, both for the population that had already lodged there and for the one that came later, there was a great variety of ideas about their status and how they should lead their lives. Materials on Roman and Briton have already been found epigraphically, on altars, tombstones and burials. However, this work will compare these first sources with the work of Tacitus, Annals, since this author always seems to place women with pejorative characteristics, very different from the loving and amorous words given to them in these places of death
Whaling Will Never Do For Me: The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century
No full text] just begin to find out that whaling will never do for me and have determined to leave the ship here if possible. That sentiment, expressed by a foremast hand aboard the ship Caroline in 1843, is one shared by many of the whalemen in this fascinating book. Interest in Herman Melville\u27s Moby Dick has contributed to a substantial literature on the history and lore of the industry. But not until now has the vast body of surviving whaleship logs and journals been used to paint an encompassing picture of the difficult but colorful life aboard nineteenth-century American whaling vessels.Briton Cooper Busch, author of a definitive history of the American sealing industry, in this book only incidentally discusses the actual chase for whales. His focus instead is the life of whalemen at sea, and particularly the harsh discipline that kept men aboard through long and often dispiriting years. Busch depicts the complex social world aboard ship, defining and detailing such issues as crime and punishment, competing racial elements, the social distance between officers and men, sexual behavior, and the role of women aboard ships.For oppressed, discouraged, or simply bored whalemen, several escapes existed, from the rarest of all mutiny through labor protests of various types, to individual desertion or appeal to an American consul abroad. To each of these topics Busch devotes a chapter. He also provides glimpses of those occasional moments of relief such as a Fourth of July celebration and such somber moments as a death at sea.Fascinating details and original quotations from individual whalemen make this book more than a study of general trends. For anyone with even a casual interest in whaling, it is indispensable.
Briton Cooper Busch is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at Colgate University, where he has been chairman of the department and director of the division of social sciences. He is author of eight previous books in maritime and diplomatic history.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_social_history/1001/thumbnail.jp
Co-authorship in A narrative of the uncommon sufferings and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man
No full textElectronic Thesis or Dissertation"A Negro Man, Servant to--General Winslow" travels from Boston to Jamaica, Florida, Cuba, and London within a thirteen-year time frame. In the captivity narrative A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man, Briton Hammon experiences many hardships during his various captivities. His is a unique experience in the captivity genre, but is critiqued because of the manner in which this narrative is produced. He did not write it himself so it widely argued that this white genre can claim a black author but not the authority of that author's experience. In the book, The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Du Bois portrays a two-sided man that has his own perspective, yet sees himself through others' eyes. He describes it as "two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body" (Du Bois). His aim is to explain the relationship between being an American and a Negro without a sole definition from the white perspective. This is my aim in my analysis of this text. This point of this research is to reclaim Hammon's authorship and therefore some of his authority. Hammon's voice constitutes the two souls and the two thoughts. I will examine the narrative in four sections: The title page and preface, the encounter with Indians, the imprisonment in Spanish Cuba, and his journey home
The Loyal Briton\u27s Song
No full textVerse concerning British nationalism circa the Napoleonic Warshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1062/thumbnail.jp
The Sequel to Briton\u27s Strike Home
No full textA man marries the woman that sailed with him on sea.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1766/thumbnail.jp
Sketches of our western sea coast : being an account of our country from St. John's to Bonne Bay, in which is given a description of its scenery, and the customs of the people, with narratives of importance and local interest
No full textTrip taken by the author on behalf of the Citizens' Temperance Association of St. John's, for the purpose of furthering temperance legislation in St. John'sThe Start -- On Ship-board -- From St. John's to Placentia -- Placentia -- A Passing Glance at Placentia Bay -- Burin -- Leaves from our Diary -- Harbor Briton -- Tribute to our Fishermen -- From Harbour Briton to English Harbour -- More Diary Leaves -- Little Bay, Rose Blanche and Channel -- Deserted Homes -- From Garnish to Burin -- From Channel to Bay St. George, Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay -- Commerce and Trade -- Hidden Treasure -- Unfinished churches -- Outport Roads -- St. John's -- Ourselves -- Our Aged Fishermen -- Candidates versus Electors -- Fiction versus Fact -- As Others See Us -- Summary of Work Done -- Additional Summary of Work Done ? Conclusion"To know our country is to love her more
A chart of part of the south coast of Newfoundland [cartographic material] : includingthe islands St. Peters and Miquelon, from an actual survey /
No full textDetailed chart of part of the Newfoundland, Canadian coast with relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings.; "Scale to the general chart English and French leagues 20 to a degree"; Accompanied by booklet: Directions for navigating on part of the south coast of Newfoundland, with a chart thereof, including the islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon ... / by James Cook. London : Printed for the author, and sold by J.Mount and T. Page on Tower-Hill, 1766. 32 p. : 24 cm.; Insets: Harbours of St. Laurence; Harbour [of] Briton.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm423
Femininity and national identity: Elizabeth Montagu's trip to France
No full textIn November 1776, Elizabeth Montagu, author and literary hostess, wrote from France to her friend the Scottish poet and scholar James Beattie:
If I have reaped any better advantage from my excursion it is a stronger sense of the felicity of living under a free Government & Religion rational & pure. The principles which most elevate and enoble the human character are piety and patriotism, these can never exist in their genuine state in a Land of slavery & Superstition.1
Here, Montagu speaks of the "felicity of living under a free Government" that she shares with Beattie as a Protestant Briton: a powerful shared identity, yet one which was under constant debate during the eighteenth century. As historians such as Linda Colley and Kathleen Wilson have argued, the definition of a Briton was often a contingent and volatile question, shaped by religion, class, and region.2 Montagu's imagined community of letter-writers—which included many Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, and extended well beyond its core of London authors, clergymen, politicians, and society figures—forms a version of polite Britain, self-consciously literary, religious, and patriotic.
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