1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911108102003321

Autore

Smith J. T (John Thomas), <1922->

Titolo

Roman villas : a study in social structure / / J.T. Smith ; drawings by A.T. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-70535-2

0-7478-0600-4

1-280-33476-2

0-203-00405-1

0-203-27065-7

9780203004050

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxxiii, 378 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

722.7

728/.09376

937

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic - Rome

Architecture, Roman - Europe

Architecture and society - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-339) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS

Sommario/riassunto

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only t



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911107678603321

Titolo

Romantic periodicals and print culture / / editor, Kim Wheatley ; with a foreword by Stephen C. Behrendt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, OR, : Frank Cass, 2003

ISBN

0-203-01099-X

1-280-05146-9

1-135-75671-6

1-283-58489-1

9786613897343

1-135-75672-4

9780203010990

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WheatleyKim <1960->

Disciplina

820.9/007

820.9007

Soggetti

English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Criticism - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English periodicals - History - 19th century

Romanticism - Great Britain

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ROMANTIC PERIODICALS AND PRINT CULTURE; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Mary Robinson, the Monthly Magazine, and the Free Press; Correcting Mrs Opie's Powers: The Edinburgh Review of Amelia Opie's Poems (1802); Novel Marriages, Romantic Labor, and the Quarterly Press; Reading the Rhetoric of Resistance in William Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash; "May the married be single, and the single happy:" Blackwood's, the Maga for the Single Man; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Construction of



Wordsworth's Genius; Detaching Lamb's Thoughts

The New Monthly Magazine and the Liberalism of the 1820sAbstracts; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects of early 19th-century periodicals, the essays in this collection treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in which Romantic ideals were challenged, modified, and developed.Contributors to the volume discuss a range of different periodicals, from the elite Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, through William Cobbett's populist weekly newspaper Two-Penny Trash, to the miscellaneous monthly magazines typified by Blackwood's. While some