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Author : Charles Manby Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : London
ISBN : NYPL:33433066656566
Author : Liz Climo
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0762452382
Artist Liz Climo has charmed her fans with her comic world of whimsical animal characters, where everyone from grizzly bears, dinosaurs, rabbits, and anteaters grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Through her comics, we discover that an armadillo can dress for Halloween, a dinosaur can be a loving parent ... and a rhino can squeeze orange juice! This collection features more than 100 comics, starring her beloved characters in all kinds of funny situations, from celebrating holidays to helping friends.
Author : Charles Manby Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : London
ISBN : OXFORD:590917625
Author : Nathaniel Wanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJF36
Author : Charlotte Matilda Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600010597
Author : Peter Coates
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780231440
Many of the world’s major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation, and power, rivers sustain life and connect the world together, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that must be crossed on the way to another place. Using four European and two North American rivers as examples, A Story of Six Rivers considers the place of rivers in our world and emphasizes the inextricable links between history, culture, and ecology. Peter Coates explores six rivers, chosen as examples of the types of rivers found on the planet: the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe; the Spree, which flows through Berlin; the Po, which cuts eastward across northern Italy; the Mersey in northwest England; the Yukon, which runs through Canada and Alaska; and the Los Angeles in California. Creating a series of river biographies, Coates gives voice to each of these bodies of water, exploring how rivers nurture us, provide cultural and economic opportunities, and pose threats to our everyday lives. He challenges recent narratives that paint rivers as the victims of abuse, pollution, and damage at the hands of humans, focusing on change rather than devastation. Describing how humans and rivers form a symbiotic—and sometimes mutually destructive—relationship, Coates argues that rivers illustrate the limits of human authority and that their capacity to inspire us is as strong as our ability to pollute them. An intimate portrait of the way these bodies of water inform our lives, A Story of Six Rivers will make us reconsider the streams and tributaries we traverse each day.
Author : Jane Hamlett,Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147407
A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today. Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries. As pets have entered our homes and joined our families, they have radically changed our world. Historians Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange show how the pet economy exploded—increasing the availability of pet foods, medicines, and shops—and reshaped our modern lives in the process. A history of pets and their human companions, this book reimagines the “pet revolution” as one among many other revolutions—industrial, agricultural, and political—that made possible contemporary life.
Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199205202
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.
Author : Heather Glen,Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198187615
Through a consideration of the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, this text offers an argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, revealing Brontë to be more aesthetically sophisticated than previously supposed.
Author : JohnC. Welchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549486
Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their contexts, group them with other objects, both similar and dissimilar, and often serve to reinforce their intrinsic or aesthetic values. The vitrine has much in common with the picture frame, the plinth and the gallery, but it has not yet received the kind of detailed art historical and theoretical discussion that has been brought to these other modes of formal display. The twelve contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture, first in the Wunderkammer and cabinet of curiosities and then in dialog with the development of glazed architecture beginning with Paxton's Crystal Palace (1851). The collection offers close discussions of the role of the vitrine and shop window in the rise of commodity culture and their apposition with Constructivist design in the work of Frederick Kiesler; as well as original readings of the use of vitrines in Surrealism and Fluxus, and in work by Joseph Beuys, Paul Thek, Claes Oldenburg and his collaborators, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Damien Hirst and Josephine Meckseper, among others. Sculpture and the Vitrine also raises key questions about the nature and implications of vitrinous space, including its fronts onto desire and the spectacle; transparency and legibility; and onto ideas and practices associated with the archive: collecting, preserving and ordering.
Author : Charles Manby Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0461489473
Author : Nathaniel Wanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Character
ISBN : UCSD:31822042772145
Author : Dan W. Clanton, Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696106
Dan W. Clanton, Jr. examines the presence and use of religion and Bible in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and stories and their later interpretations. Clanton begins by situating Christie in her literary, historical, and religious contexts by discussing “Golden Age” crime fiction and Christianity in England in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. He then explores the ways in which Bible is used in Christie's Poirot novels as well as how Christie constructs a religious identity for her little Belgian sleuth. Clanton concludes by asking how non-majority religious cultures are treated in the Poirot canon, including a heterodox Christian movement, Spiritualism, Judaism, and Islam. Throughout, Clanton acknowledges that many people do not encounter Poirot in his original literary contexts. That is, far more people have been exposed to Poirot via “mediated” renderings and interpretations of the stories and novels in various other genres, including radio, films, and TV. As such, the book engages the reception of the stories in these various genres, since the process of adapting the original narrative plots involves, at times, meaningful changes. Capitalizing on the immense and enduring popularity of Poirot across multiple genres and the absence of research on the role of religion and Bible in those stories, this book is a necessary contribution to the field of Christie studies and will be welcomed by her fans as well as scholars of religion, popular culture, literature, and media.
Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362
Author : David Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521457718
In 1750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by 1914 England, together with handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every interstice of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.