The Private Rod

Author : Marlene Tromp
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0813919495

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The Private Rod by Marlene Tromp Pdf

Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behavior in marriage. Exploring the central metaphor of marital violence in these novels, Marlene Tromp uncovers the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Her investigation demonstrates that sensational constructions of gender, marriage, "brutal" relationships, and even murder, were gradually incorporated into legal debates and realist fiction as the Victorian understanding of what was "real" changed. --from publisher description.

Author : Marlene Tromp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : English fiction
ISBN : OCLC:38448182

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The Private Rod by Marlene Tromp Pdf

Author : William Fothergill Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108052740

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Extracts from the Private Letters of the Late Sir W. F. Cooke by William Fothergill Cooke Pdf

First published in 1895, this collection of letters casts light on the early history and development of the electric telegraph.

Author : Rod Machado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0963122991

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Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook by Rod Machado Pdf

Learn everything you need for the FAA private pilot exam, biennial flight reviews, and updating and refreshing your knowledge.

Author : Laura C. Berry
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813934575

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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel by Laura C. Berry Pdf

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.

Author : William M. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317847601

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The History Of The Rod by William M. Cooper Pdf

First published in 2005. The line between pain and pleasure is as thin as the tail of a whip, and this classic work is the definitive history of flagellation through the ages. As it shows, flagellation is much more than a punishment - it is also intimately tied to discipline and eroticism, has a romantic and even comic side, and has also been used for medical purposes. No one is above the bite of the birch or rod - convent nuns were chastised severely, queens have been flogged, and even favourites of the sultan have had to endure the whip in the great seraglios. The author deals in great detail with whipping in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the favourite parts of the body for whipping, flagellation and discipline in monasteries and convents, whipping in prisons, the rod in Russia, flagellation in America, whipping in Europe and the Far East, the flogging of slaves, military flogging, school punishments and the birch in the boudoir, all enlivened with colourful anecdotes. There is a chapter on the instruments of whipping, a selection of ribald and erotic poems on whipping, a section on eccentric forms of whipping such as that practised on prostitutes, many detailed line drawings, descriptive accounts and a full index. The work shows the fundamental place whipping has always played in human history, both publicly and in private, and continues to play today.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442232341

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Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

This is an eclectic collection of essays from a group of international scholars tackling various subjects on Victorian literature—from studies of specific authors such Charles Dickens’ early and later works, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and novels by Thomas Hardy to more general discussions, such as the depictions of women in Victorian novels.

Author : Henry Sullivan Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Fishes
ISBN : OXFORD:600086882

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The rod in India: being hints how to obtain sport, with remarks on the natural history of fish, their culture, and value by Henry Sullivan Thomas Pdf

Author : Richard J. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031801411

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Presidential Lightning Rods by Richard J. Ellis Pdf

Choice Outstanding Title H. R. Haldeman, President Nixon's former chief of staff, is said to have boasted: "Every president needs a son of a bitch, and I'm Nixon's. I'm his buffer and I'm his bastard. I get done what he wants done and I take the heat instead of him." Richard Ellis explores the widely discussed but poorly understood phenomenon of presidential "lightning rods"--cabinet officials who "take the heat" instead of their bosses. Whether by intent or circumstance, these officials divert criticism and blame away from their presidents. The phenomenon is so common that it's assumed to be an essential item in every president's managerial toolbox. But, Ellis argues, such assumptions can oversimplify our understanding of this tool. Ellis advises against indiscriminate use of the lightning rod metaphor. Such labeling can hide as much as it reveals about presidential administration and policymaking at the cabinet level. The metaphor often misleads by suggesting strategic intent on the president's part while obscuring the calculations and objectives of presidential adversaries and the lightning rods themselves. Ellis also illuminates the opportunities and difficulties that various presidential posts--especially secretaries of state, chiefs of staff, and vice presidents--have offered for deflecting blame from our presidents. His study offers numerous detailed and instructive examples from the administrations of Truman (Dean Acheson); Eisenhower (Richard Nixon, John Foster Dulles, Herbert Brownell, and Ezra Taft Benson); LBJ (Hubert Humphrey); Ford (Henry Kissinger); and Reagan (James Watt). These examples, Ellis suggests, should guide our understanding of the relationship between lightning rods and presidential leadership, policymaking, and ratings. Blame avoidance, he warns, does have its limitations and may even backfire at times. Nevertheless, President Clinton and his successors may need to rely on such tools. The presidency, Ellis points out, finds itself the object of increasingly intense partisan debate and microscopic scrutiny by a wary press. Lightning rods can deflect such heat and help the president test policies, gauge public opinion, and protect his political power and public image. Ellis's book is an essential primer for helping us understand this process.

Author : Philip Young
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015026941412

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The Private Melville by Philip Young Pdf

The Private Melville demonstrates how great a role his profound sense of privacy played in Melville's life and work. Secrets he was careful never to reveal are unmasked by Philip Young. Privacy, as it appears to Melville here, is of three types. First are family matters the public had no business knowing about, such as the life story of a secret half-sister; next the story of the life of a cousin, Priscilla, model for the heroine of his novel Pierre, who scandalously "marries" her half-brother; and then a history testing a rash claim made by Melville regarding the lineage of "hundreds" of ordinary New England families. The second type concerns four Berkshire Tales that depend heavily on "private jokes", and thus have secret meaning that escaped the editors who printed them and continue to evade critics and scholars. The third kind deals with two "fictions" so little understood that the meaning might as well be secret: a speech of Ahab's, which is called the "spiritual climax" of Moby-Dick; and Melville's very last fiction, "Daniel Orme", a self-portrait in which he has gone pretty much unrecognized.

Author : Sarah Yoon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781003801368

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The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels by Sarah Yoon Pdf

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253709

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Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England by Ian Ward Pdf

The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.

Author : Art Scheck
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781581578645

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Fly Rod Building Made Easy: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making a High-Quality Fly Rod on a Budget by Art Scheck Pdf

In clear steps illustrated with hundreds of photographs, Art Scheck takes the beginning rod maker through the steps to creating a handmade fly rod that will fish with the best of them but won't break the bank. Art Scheck revolutionizes the exclusive world of fly rod building by teaching the beginning rodmaker how to build a rod that will catch fish. It doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be difficult. With a few hours of work, this entertaining book and its 225 step-by-step photos will walk you through all you need to know and do—from buying the parts you'll assemble to putting that last coat of finish on your gleaming new rod. Art Scheck makes this arcane art accessible, enjoyable, and affordable.

Author : L. Rotunno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137323804

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Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898 by L. Rotunno Pdf

By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.

Author : COL Charles W. L. Hall
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466976603

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Revivals to Revolvers . . . to Die for Commonwealth and Family! by COL Charles W. L. Hall Pdf

Over two thousand men were recruited for this regiment from the counties of Hickman, Fayette, Bullitt, Jefferson, Graves, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Owen, Bourbon, and Anderson throughout 18611865! The Second Kentucky persevered over three years of unbelievable hardship valorously and under constant threat of death! Honoring all Kentuckians past and present! Part of the real life story is given to us through the memoirs and diary of Colonel Roger W. Hanson, commanding the Louisville Legion, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Every attempt has been made to fully represent our regiment in this book, to include a regiment roster of all officers and men who selfishly served their state, their conscience, and the Confederacy!