The Life And Reminiscences Of E L Blanchard With Notes From The Diary Of Wm Blanchard By Clement Scott And Cecil Howard

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446477113

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London In The Nineteenth Century by Jerry White Pdf

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.

Author : Margot C. Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521823420

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The Character of Credit by Margot C. Finn Pdf

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Author : Brenda Assael
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192549716

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The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael Pdf

This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined broadly, to encompass not merely the prestigious West End restaurant, but also the modest refreshment room, and even the street cart) as a critical component in the creation of modern metropolitan culture. The story of the London restaurant between the 1840s and the First World War serves as an exemplary site for mapping the expansion of commercial leisure, the increasing significance of the service sector, the introduction of technology, the democratization of the public sphere, changing gender roles, and the impact of immigration. The London Restaurant incorporates the notion of 'gastro-cosmopolitanism' to highlight the existence of a diverse culture in London in this period that requires us to think, not merely beyond the nation, but beyond empire. The restaurant also had an important role in contemporary debates about public health and the (sometimes conflicting, but no less often complementary) prerogatives of commerce, moral improvement, and liberal governance. The London Restaurant considers the restaurant as a business and a place of employment, as well as an important site for the emergence of new forms of metropolitan experience and identity. While focused on London, it illustrates the complex ways in which cultural and commercial forces were intertwined in modern Britain, and demonstrates the rewards of writing histories which recognize the interplay between broad, global forces and highly localized spaces.

Author : Melanie Keene
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199662654

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Science in Wonderland by Melanie Keene Pdf

Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences; examines a range of scientific subjects, from palaeontology to entomology to astronomy.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ralph Cohen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030896683

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Transformations of a Genre by Ralph Cohen Pdf

The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations—including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel—in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.

Author : Rosemary Ashton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300227260

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One Hot Summer by Rosemary Ashton Pdf

In history -- May 1858 -- June 1858, part I -- June 1858, part II -- July 1858 -- July-August 1858 -- The aftermath of the hot summer -- Epilogue

Author : James Gatheral
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000226577

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The Bohemian Republic by James Gatheral Pdf

In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions and social practices within a global context of ideas and action. Though the story of Parisian Bohemia has been comprehensively told, much less is known of its Anglophone translations. The Bohemian Republic offers a radical reinterpretation of the phenomenon, as the neglected lives and works of British, Irish, American, and Australian Bohemians are reassessed, the transnational networks of Bohemia are rediscovered, the presence and influence of women in Bohemia is reclaimed, and Bohemia’s relationship with the marketplace is reconsidered. Bohemia emerges as a marginal network which exerted a paradoxically powerful influence on the development of popular culture, in the vanguard of material, social and aesthetic innovations in literature, art, journalism, and theatre. Underpinned by extensive and original archival research, the book repopulates the concept of Bohemianism with layers of the networked voices, expressions, ideas, people, places, and practices that made up its constituent social, imagined, and interpretive communities. The reader is brought closer than ever to the heart of Bohemia, a shadowy world inhabited by the rebels of the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Edith Hall,Henry Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315446585

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A People's History of Classics by Edith Hall,Henry Stead Pdf

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

Author : Carolyn Steedman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674839781

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Strange Dislocations by Carolyn Steedman Pdf

Using the perspectives of social and cultural history, and the history of psychology and physiology, Strange Dislocations traces a search for the self, for a past that is lost and gone, and the ways in which, over the last hundred years, the lost vision has come to assume the form of a child.

Author : Gilli Bush-Bailey,Kate Flaherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000509366

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Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960 by Gilli Bush-Bailey,Kate Flaherty Pdf

This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus—removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or obscure, travelling performers faced dangers at sea and hazardous journeys across land. Their tracks, made in pursuit of fortune and fame, intersected with those made by earlier storytellers in search for food. Touring Performance and Global Exchange takes a fresh look at such tracks—the material remains—demonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often beenconceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patterns—ones that comprise reversed flows, cross currents, and continually proliferating centres of meaning in complex networks of global exchange. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students in theatre, music, drama studies, and cultural history.

Author : Clement Scott,Cecil Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Blanchard, Edward Leman, 1820-1889
ISBN : OCLC:622664949

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The Life and Reminiscences of E.L. Blanchard, With Notes From the Diary of Wm. Blanchard, by Clement Scott and Cecil Howard by Clement Scott,Cecil Howard Pdf

Author : Edward L. Blanchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOM:39015013758142

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The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard by Edward L. Blanchard Pdf

Author : David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845782

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Subaltern Medievalisms by David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders Pdf

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : NYPL:33433069136111

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Torch and Colonial Book Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435028608347

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf