Anna Beer
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Eve Bites Back
An Alternative History of English Literature
- Oneworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-684-8
EAN 9780861546848
From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn't give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful and often controversial lives. Eve Bites ...
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Patriot or Traitor
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-670-0
EAN 9781786076700
A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's favourite, only to be charged with treason by her successor. Less than ...
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Armonías y suaves cantos
Las mujeres olvidadas de la música clásica
- Acantilado, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas · 32 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-84-17346-61-4
EAN 9788417346614
Desde el nacimiento de la música clásica, las mujeres que se atrevieron a componer fueron tratadas, en el mejor de los casos, con condescendencia: su vida sexual era objeto de escrutinio y a menudo servía para cuestionar su autoría. Sin embargo, las ocho protagonistas de este ensayo - Caccini,Strozzi, Jacquet de la Guerre, Von Martines, ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-434-8
EAN 9781786074348
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.'Sir Walter Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. We do not even know when this fifth ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-067-8
EAN 9781786070678
A companion to the Classic FM seriesFrancesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann.Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy. Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard.In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today ...
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-856-6
EAN 9781780748566
Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz. Revealing not just the lives and works of eight exceptional artists, historian Anna Beer also asks tough questions about the silencing of ...
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Milton
Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9628-8
EAN 9780747596288
For centuries John Milton, author of "Paradise Lost" and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or a saintly blind man. But, as Anna Beer shows, his personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8425-4
EAN 9780747584254
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the great epic Paradise Lost and of numerous sonnets and other works, from Comus and Lycidas to Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.Of all the major English poets, John Milton was by far the most deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, ...
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