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Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317242376

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Victorian Theatrical Burlesques by Richard Schoch Pdf

First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays - represents a valuable scholarly tool for students and scholars of modern drama, theatre history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques includes a 'state-of-the-art' introduction which provides a general overview of theatrical burlesques in the Victorian era, emphasising performance history. Sustained reference is made to burlesques other than those presented in the anthology. Through its general introduction, prefaces and annotations to individual plays, checklist of burlesque plays, and bibliography, the unique volume allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to see Victorian burlesques as a rich historical record of shifting attitudes toward drama and the theatre.

Author : Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu,Kyriaki Asiatidou,Ela İpek Gündüz,Enes Kavak,Gamze Almacıoğlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527548244

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English Studies in the 21st Century by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu,Kyriaki Asiatidou,Ela İpek Gündüz,Enes Kavak,Gamze Almacıoğlu Pdf

English Studies in the 21st Century presents the results of recent academic research concerning a wide spectrum of subjects—including politics, psychology, religion, philosophy, history, culture, aesthetics, and education—related to literary, cultural, and language studies. Specifically, this collection includes scholarly reflections, interpretations, criticisms, and experiments that both strengthen and challenge dominant perspectives on the English literary tradition and contribute to a multifaceted discussion of contemporary drama and theater, contemporary theory and fiction, Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, posthumanism, and interdisciplinary studies in English, including linguistics and ELT. The book will be an ideal reference for both academics and students.

Author : Anthea Lawson
Publisher : Fiddlehead Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781680130706

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A Lady's Choice by Anthea Lawson Pdf

What happens when a proper young lady meets a most unsuitable gentleman? A delightful tale from USA Today bestselling, RITA-nominated author Anthea Lawson. Lady Sara Ashford has spent years cultivating her spotless reputation: a difficult task in the face of her mother’s scandalous exploits abroad. Now she is set on a path toward a perfect, respectable future—until the highly unsuitable Comte du Lac comes to London, and she is given the task of instructing him on how to behave properly in English Society. At first Lady Sara finds him intolerable, but after he steals a kiss she realizes he is a terrible danger to her future. As soon as possible, she must put him out of her life—and her heart—forever. *Originally published in the limited edition Scandal's Daughters anthology~ KEYWORDS: Victorian Romance, Clean Romance, Sweet Romance, Romance Novella, Lords and Ladies, Tunisia, Short romance, Eva Devon

Author : Garnet Walch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048764075

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The Victorian Jubilee Book by Garnet Walch Pdf

Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843318484

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The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets by Michael J. Allen Pdf

'The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets' is a comprehensive collection of three thousand sonnets written by poets between 1836 and the early years of the twentieth century. The work contains a representative selection of sonnets for each individual poet, in order to display the diversity and innovation brought to the sonnet form by Victorian poets.

Author : Mick Davis,David Lassman
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781526764874

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The Adventures of a Victorian Con Woman by Mick Davis,David Lassman Pdf

The true crime story of a master swindler and charming con-artist who became one of the most notorious female criminals of the Victorian Age. ‘The story of Mrs. Gordon Baillie is stranger than anything to be met with in the field of fiction.’ Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as Annie, was born in the direst poverty in the small Scottish fishing town of Peterhead in 1848. Illegitimate and illiterate, her beauty and intelligence nevertheless enabled her to overcome her circumstances and become a charming and wealthy socialite living a life of luxury while raising money for worthy causes and charitable works. Behind her supposed perfect and contented life, however, lay one of the most notorious and compulsive swindlers of the Victorian Age. Her fraudulent fundraising and larger-than-life schemes played out across four decades and three continents, and involved land owners, crofters, aristocrats, politicians, bankers, socialist revolutionaries, operatic stars, and the cultural icons of the day. She became mistress to a rich aristocrat, married a world-renowned male opera singer and later took as a lover a vicar’s son with anarchist tendencies. For most of her ‘career’ she kept one step ahead of the law and her nemesis, Inspector Henry Marshall of Scotland Yard, but finally becoming undone through her own compulsion for petty theft, despite her amassed fortune. During her life she used more than forty aliases, produced four children and spent her way through millions in ill-gotten wealth. But at the turn of the twentieth century, her notoriety was such that she took refuge in America and disappeared from history. “If you want to read about a Victorian woman who was able to hide her humble origins in Scotland to become one of the most notorious con-women in well-to-do society—an audacious figure who tried to live the life she felt she deserved rather than the one society wanted her to lead—then this book is highly recommended.” —Criminal Historian, Dr Nell Darby

Author : Rachel A. Fletcher,Thijs Porck,Oliver M. Traxel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846505

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Old English Medievalism by Rachel A. Fletcher,Thijs Porck,Oliver M. Traxel Pdf

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Alexis Easley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611490169

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Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914 by Alexis Easley Pdf

This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. As women were featured in interviews and profiles, they were increasingly associated with the ephemerality of the popular press and were often excluded from emerging narratives of British literary history, which defined great literature as having a timeless appeal. Nevertheless, women writers were able to capitalize on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling history on their own terms. Press attention had a more positive effect on men's literary careers since they were expected to assume public identities; however, in some cases, media exposure had the effect of sensationalizing their lives, bodies, and careers. With the development of proto-feminist criticism and historiography, the life stories of male writers were increasingly used to expose unhealthy domestic relationships and imagine ideal forms of British masculinity. The first section of Literary Celebrity explores the practice of literary tourism in Victorian Britain, focusing specifically on the homes and haunts of Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Martineau. This investigation incorporates analysis of fascinating cultural texts, including maps, periodicals, and tourist guidebooks. Easley links the practice of literary tourism to a variety of cultural developments, including nationalism, urbanization, spiritualism, the women's movement, and the expansion of popular print culture. The second section provides fresh insight into the ways that celebrity culture informed thedevelopment of Victorian historiography. Easley demonstrates how women were able to re-tell history from a proto-feminist perspective by writing contemporary history, participating in architectural reform movements, and becoming active in literary societi

Author : Joseph Conrad,Thomas Hardy,William Makepeace Thackeray,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 1515 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968588452

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3 Books To Know Victorian Literature by Joseph Conrad,Thomas Hardy,William Makepeace Thackeray,August Nemo Pdf

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Victorian Literature. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. - Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066194408

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Meredith Allard
Publisher : Copperfield Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Hembry Castle Box Set by Meredith Allard Pdf

For fans of Downton Abbey. Read both beloved books from the Hembry Castle Chronicles together for the first time. When It Rained at Hembry Castle: A lush historical novel set in Victorian England, When It Rained at Hembry Castle is the story of an aristocratic family, secrets that dare not be told, and the wonder of falling in love. When the 8th Earl of Staton dies, his eldest son, the unreliable Richard, inherits the title and the family’s home—Hembry Castle. The Earl’s niece, the American-born Daphne, is intrigued by Edward Ellis, a rising author with a first-hand knowledge of Hembry Castle—from the servants’ hall. Can Richard come to terms with his title before bringing ruin on his family? Will Edward and Daphne find their way to each other despite the obstacles of life at Hembry Castle? When It Rained at Hembry Castle is a page-turning, romantic novel with vivid characters and an engrossing story that will keep you guessing until the end. Christmas at Hembry Castle: You are cordially invited to Christmas at Hembry Castle. An unlikely earl struggles with his new place. A young couple’s love is tested. What is a meddling ghost to do? In the tradition of A Christmas Carol, travel back to Victorian England and enjoy a lighthearted, festive holiday celebration.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 11309 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547773924

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MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection: Mystery Novels, Victorian Romances & Supernatural Tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON – Ultimate Collection: Sensation Novels, Detective Mysteries, Victorian Romances & Supernatural Tales" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: My First Novel by M. E. Braddon Novels: The Trail of the Serpent Lady Audley's Secret Aurora Floyd The Captain of the Vulture John Marchmont's Legacy Eleanor's Victory Henry Dunbar The Doctor's Wife Birds of Prey Charlotte's Inheritance Run to Earth Fenton's Quest The Lovels of Arden A Strange World The Cloven Foot Vixen Mount Royal Phantom Fortune The Golden Calf Wyllard's Weird Mohawks All Along the River Gerard (The World, the Flesh, and the Devil) London Pride His Darling Sin The Infidel Beyond These Voices Short Stories: Ralph the Bailiff and Other Stories: Ralph the Bailiff Captain Thomas The Cold Embrace My Daughters The Mystery of Fernwood Samuel Lowgood's Revenge The Lawyer's Secret My First Happy Christmas Lost and Found Eveline's Visitant – A Ghost Story Found in the Muniment Chest How I Heard my Own Will Read Flower and Weed and Other Tales: Flower and Weed George Caulfield's Journey The Clown's Quest Dr. Carrick If She Be Not Fair to Me The Shadow in the Corner His Secret Thou Art the Man Milly Darrell Good Lady Ducayne At Chrighton Abbey Children's Book: The Christmas Hirelings

Author : Meredith Allard
Publisher : Copperfield Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Painting the Past: A Guide for Writing Historical Fiction by Meredith Allard Pdf

Do you want to write historical fiction? Join Meredith Allard, the executive editor of The Copperfield Review, the award-winning literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction, as she shares tips and tricks for creating believable historical worlds through targeted research and a vivid imagination. Give in to your daydreams. Do the work. Let your creativity loose into the world so you can share your love of history and your passion for the written word with others.

Author : Erica Haugtvedt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031134630

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Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century by Erica Haugtvedt Pdf

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period’s receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The central claim is that the serialized, periodical, and dramatic media environment of the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century in Great Britain trained audiences to perceive the continuous identity of characters and worlds across disparate texts, illustrations, plays, and songs by creators other than the earliest originating author. The book contributes to fan studies, transmedia studies, and nineteenth-century periodical studies while also interrogating the nature of fictional character.

Author : Paul Fox
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838266237

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Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature by Paul Fox Pdf

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society's moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.