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- The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice"
- Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article focuses on Romantic, and specifically Byronic, undercurrents in Persuasion. I subsequently...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Coleridge's Francophobia
- It is no secret, nor has it ever been, that Coleridge disliked the French. The 'Gall contra Gallos' (1) that he had once joked about with Poole was really a deep-seated repugnance for an entire people, culpable not only for Jacobinism and aggression but also for bad manners and bad...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
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- Napoleon: A Political Life
- NAPOLEON: A Political Life, Steven Englund, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004, 474 pages, $35.00. In the modern biographical literature on Napoleon Bonaparte that has stood the test of time are David G. Chandler's comprehensive The Campaigns of Napoleon (Scribner, New York, 1973) and Felix Markham's cogent biographical masterpiece...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship - Review
- Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. Isser Woloch. W. W. Norton. [pound]22.50. 281 pages ISBN 0-393-05009-2. Professor Woloch, who teaches in Columbia University, has already established himself as an authority on French revolutionary history with The New Regime. In this book the author puts Napoleon -- 'this...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- No poisoning in Napoleon's death, say Swiss researchers
- GENEVA AFP — Even the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican who rose from obscurity to become emperor of France, has been the stuff of legend. But Swiss researchers are now debunking the story of the French icon's poisoning. At the end of his life Napoleon suffered from stomach...
- Research articles 2005-05-03
- Napoleon's Austerlitz bicentenary attracts international audience
- SLAVKOV, Czech Republic AFP — Government officials, military buffs and historians converged on the site where, 200 years ago, the French Emperor Napoleon won what experts say was his greatest victory, Austerlitz. On December 2 1805, Napoleon's army of around 75,000 crushed a superior force of Russians and Austrians,...
- Research articles 2005-12-02
- Semmel, Stuart: Napoleon and the British.(Book Review)
- Semmel, Stuart Napoleon and the British New Haven: Yale University Press 352 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-300-09001-3 Publication Date: September 2004 Stuart Semmel is an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware. The genesis of this book was his dissertation at Harvard...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Yale fetes Napoleon at bicentennial of his coronation.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 November 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale fetes Napoleon at bicentennial of his coronationC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11152004 New Haven, Conn. - The French department and Whitney Humanities Center of Yale will hold an international conference December 3-4 to commemorate the bicentennial...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
- Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. Adam Zamoyski. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]25.00. xviii + 634 pages. ISBN 978-0-00-719757-6. Mr Zamoyski has already written on Napoleon's disastrous attack on Russia in 1812. Here he turns to the series of meetings among representatives of those powers arrayed...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Napoleon makes a come-back; a rediscovered epic of the silent screen
- On three evenings in July 1983, the 3,700-seat auditorium of the Palais des Congres in Paris was packed with expectant audiences impatient to see a film which had been made over half a century before, had been received with acclaim by public and critics, and had then virtually disappeared without...
- Research articles 1984-08-01
- CIM Group Unveils Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics Luxury Boutique on Hollywood Boulevard in November 2006; Australia's Leading Beauty Brand, Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics, Brings out the Celebrity In You
- HOLLYWOOD -- Napoleon Perdis, Australia's leading makeup artist and the CEO and Founder of Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics, will expand his global beauty empire this November with the unveiling of a luxurious concept store on Hollywood Boulevard, marking one of the brand's first in the U.S. CIM Group has leased a...
- Research articles 2006-09-19
- Phonebites and Twentieth Century Fox Bring Family Guy and Napoleon Dynamite Sound Bites to Mobile Phones; Phonebites' RAZZ Headset™ to Include Popular Quotes From Two of the Year's Hottest Properties
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Phonebites, a global publisher of entertainment software for mobile phones, and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising have announced a two-year licensing agreement for Family Guy and Napoleon Dynamite. Under terms of the agreement, Phonebites will design, manufacture and distribute its innovative RAZZ Headsets with the most...
- Research articles 2006-01-03
- Campbell Soup Company, Ohio Governor Strickland to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Campbell's Napoleon Manufacturing Facility
- NAPOLEON, Ohio -- Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB), along with Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, State Representative Lynn Wacthmann, State Senator Steve Buehrer, and other elected officials and special guests, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Campbell's Napoleon facility, the company's largest manufacturing facility in the world.
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Know thy enema: Did colonic irrigation kill Napoleon?
- PARIS AFP ? The enduring mystery surrounding the demise of Napoleon Bonaparte has just been given another twist. The official verdict, supported by an autopsy, was that l'Empereur died of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821, at the age of 51, while in exile on Britain's South Atlantic island...
- Research articles 2004-07-21
- Napoleon's tooth up for auction
- LONDON AFP — A tooth said to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte is up for auction in Britain later this month and expected to sell for up to 8,000 pounds (11,800 euros, 14,100 dollars). It is believed to have been extracted in 1817 during the French general's exile on...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- French military food helped kill Napoleon, says study
- PARIS AFP — Nearly 186 years later, a scientific study has cleared Britain of the calumny that it murdered Napoleon, declaring instead that l'empereur was felled by stomach cancer -- and French military food was a possible cause. In the latest twist in a long-running medical saga, pathologists in the...
- Research articles 2007-01-17
- Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Book Review)
- Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. By Isser Woloch. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Pp. xi, 281. $29.95.) Napoleonic historiography has long been hobbled by the analytical categories of "for" and "against." (E.g., Pieter Geyl,...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- Napoleon's sabre fetches record 4.8 million euros
- PARIS AFP — A gold-encrusted sabre carried by the French emperor Napoleon at the battle of Marengo in 1800 fetched an unexpected 4.8 million euros (6.4 million dollars) at an auction on Sunday. "It's a world record for a souvenir of the emperor, for a sword and for a...
- Research articles 2007-06-10
- Former PM's Napoleon archive a hit at Paris auction
- PARIS AFP — Rare-book lovers, museum buyers and fans of Napoleon flocked Wednesday for a chance to bid on a rich archive on the emperor, put up for sale by former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin. Some 335 books and letters, collected over the past three decades, were...
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- Vienna, 1814; how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna
- Vienna, 1814; how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna. King, David. Harmony Books 2008 434 pages $27.50 Hardcover DC249 King, a Fullbright scholar who taught European history at the U. of Kentucky for many...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
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