Fonthill Recovered : a cultural history / / Caroline Dakers
| Fonthill Recovered : a cultural history / / Caroline Dakers |
| Autore | Dakers Caroline |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : UCL Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvi, 402 pages) |
| Disciplina | 136.4973 |
| Soggetto topico | Intellectual life |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Caroline Dakers Part one. The narrative The early history of Fonthill / David Roberts Fonthill from the Middle Ages to 1744 : the first Fonthill House / Neil Burton The Beckford era / Amy Frost The break-up of the Fonthill estate ; Fonthill in the nineteenth century ; Fonthill in the twentieth century ; Out of the ruins : new houses at Fonthill / Caroline Dakers Part two. The essays The geophysical survey west of Fonthill Lake / David Roberts The landscape of Fonthill / Min Wood The early paintings of Fonthill / Jeannie Chapel The Cottington and Bradshaw burials in Westminster Abbey / Susan Jenkins The wealth of the Beckfords / Sidney Blackmore The landscape at Fonthill : an assessment of the grottoes and their builders / Michael Cousins William Thomas Beckford : between dalliance and duty / Lawrence Klein Reading Vathek and Fonthill Abbey : William Beckford's architectural imagination / Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend Fonthill and its Maecenae : works of art lost and found / Martin P. Levy Little Ridge / Michael Drury The Smithsons at Upper Lawn Pavilion / Amy Frost Fonthill Abbey, terror and videogames at the British Library / Greg Buzwell Epilogue / Caroline Dakers. |
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Dakers Caroline
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The Lonely Crowd : A Study of the Changing American Character / / David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney
| The Lonely Crowd : A Study of the Changing American Character / / David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney |
| Autore | Riesman David |
| Edizione | [Abridged and Revised Edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (lxi, 308 pages) |
| Disciplina | 136.4973 |
| Collana | Veritas Paperbacks |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, American
Ethnopsychology - United States |
| ISBN | 0-300-25347-8 |
| Classificazione | MG 70086 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Twenty Years After — A Second Preface -- Preface to the 1961 Edition -- Chapter I. Some Types of Character and Society -- Chapter II. From Morality to Morale: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation -- Chapter III. A Jury of Their Peers: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued ) -- Chapter IV. Storytellers as Tutors in Technique: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued ) -- Chapter V. The Inner-directed Round of Life -- Chapter VI. The Other-directed Round of Life: From Invisible Hand to Glad Hand -- Chapter VII. The Other-directed Round of Life (Continued): The Night Shift -- Chapter VIII. Tradition-directed, Inner-directed, and Other-directed Political Styles: Indifferents, Moralizers, Inside-dopesters -- Chapter IX. Political Persuasions: Indignation and Tolerance -- Chapter X. Images of Power -- Chapter XI. Americans and Kwakiutls -- Chapter XII. Adjustment or Autonomy? -- Chapter XIII. False Personalization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Work -- Chapter XIV. Enforced Privatization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play -- Chapter XV. The Problem of Competence: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play (Continued) -- Chapter XVI. Autonomy and Utopia -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794199303321 |
Riesman David
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] | ||
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