Charles Doyle S Fairyland

Author : Robert R. Wark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050998601

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Charles Doyle's Fairyland by Robert R. Wark Pdf

Author : Diana Barsham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351956956

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Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity by Diana Barsham Pdf

A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.

Author : Clément Chéroux,Andreas Fischer,Pierre Apraxine,Denis Canguilhem,Sophie Schmit
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300111361

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The Perfect Medium by Clément Chéroux,Andreas Fischer,Pierre Apraxine,Denis Canguilhem,Sophie Schmit Pdf

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.

Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015082923403

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The Huntington Library Quarterly by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Douglas Kerr
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191662577

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Conan Doyle by Douglas Kerr Pdf

From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives. He had a worldwide reputation and was one of the most popular authors of the age. A critical study of the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle and a cultural biography, this is a book for students of literary and cultural history, and Conan Doyle enthusiasts. It is a full account of all of his writing, and an investigation of the role of the author as he practised it, as witness, critic, and interpreter of his times. His work was widely read and enjoyed, but it is far from being a simple endorsement of the masculine, imperialist, bourgeois, scientific world he so often portrayed. The subject of this study is what Conan Doyle knew—the knowledge of his own culture, its institutions and values and ways of life, its beliefs and anxieties, which is created and shared by his writing. The book is organized according to a number of cultural domains—sport, medicine, science, law and order, army and empire, and the spiritual life. At a time when literature had become a profession, in a society where literacy was more widespread than ever before or since, Conan Doyle emerges as a maker of culture, offering his readers an image of themselves, their past and their future.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192598035

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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric figure who is his new room-mate at 221B Baker Street, before they encounter their first case: an American visitor to the city has been killed in an empty house off the Brixton Road, and the only clue the police have is the mysterious word 'Rache', scrawled in blood-red letters on the wall. As Holmes sets to work with his unique forensic methods, behind the murder a tangled skein of love, religion, and revenge gradually unwinds, taking us from the streets of London to the Utah Territory, and back again. As Nicholas Daly's Introduction describes, out of this gripping tale grew the Holmes and Watson stories that would make Conan Doyle the best-paid author of his time. His creations have become household words, inspiring not only countless adaptations and imitations, but a Sherlock Holmes museum, Sherlock Holmes-themed pubs, and a whole array of Holmesian merchandise, from cushions to jigsaw puzzles. Here, though, we meet Holmes and Watson before they became famous, and we can see how their extraordinary impact on our popular culture derives from the late-Victorian world from which they emerge.

Author : Fiona Nickerson,David Wootton
Publisher : Chris Beetles Dist
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124044798

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The Illustrators by Fiona Nickerson,David Wootton Pdf

A fascinating catalogue, containing the wide range of artists and works now expected from the Chris

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281393

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Valerie Purton
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783088065

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John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education by Valerie Purton Pdf

An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin’s influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin’s many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth’s future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin’s birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339543157

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The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland by Andrew Lang Pdf

"The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland" by Andrew Lang is a charming fairy tale that transports readers to a magical world filled with enchanting characters and captivating adventures. Lang's storytelling prowess is on full display as he introduces readers to a princess who is a "nobody" and embarks on a quest to discover her true identity. This classic fairy tale combines elements of fantasy, romance, and mystery, making it an enchanting read for both children and adults. As readers follow the princess on her journey of self-discovery, they are treated to a timeless tale of wonder and imagination.

Author : William Allingham,Richard Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092460411

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In Fairy Land by William Allingham,Richard Doyle Pdf

Author : Alice Maria Dougan,Margaret Furlong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007174371

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Art Index by Alice Maria Dougan,Margaret Furlong Pdf

Author : Dawn Cope,Peter Cope
Publisher : London : New Cavendish Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Illustrated children's books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110324220

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Postcards from the Nursery by Dawn Cope,Peter Cope Pdf

A tribute to legions of unsung children's illustrators.

Author : Carole G. Silver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190286835

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Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver Pdf

Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.

Author : John Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:32000009783129

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Memorials of the Civil War Between King Charles I. and the Parliament of England as it Affected Herefordshire and Adjacent Counties by John Webb Pdf