The Rustics

Author : Leslie Dale Feldman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739171493

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Rustics and Politics by Leslie Dale Feldman Pdf

The Beverly Hillbillies includes the portrayal of rich versus poor, the American dream, wealth, and social mobility in popular culture. The Hillbillies was a phenomenon of post-World War II America, the second wave after the 1950s, the dustbelt Depression meets the promise of opportunity achieved through luck. Luck counts in liberal society. It is, said Machiavelli, “the arbiter of half of what we do.” But is success based on luck really the American dream? And who is the bigger success story—the Hillbillies or those who have earned their wealth? Whom do we want to be or be like? Everyone wants to win the lottery, but is everyone willing to do what it takes to achieve financial independence without winning the lottery? Does winning the lottery bring social status or can it only be achieved by labor? In sum, Paul Henning’s brilliant comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies is replete with political ideas and has come to occupy a special place in popular culture as a classic television icon because of its deeper meaning and relationship to how we think about wealth, status, social mobility and the American dream.

Author : Bryan Reynolds
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801876752

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Becoming Criminal by Bryan Reynolds Pdf

In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct "criminal culture" of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn,officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality. Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring presence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.

Author : Jill Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476646862

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Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel by Jill Franks Pdf

Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia. Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author's university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly yet conversational, directed to the undergraduate student as well as the general reader or Victoriaphile. The text presents concepts in interdisciplinary cultural studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the era. The coherent style, abundant examples, discussion questions, and literary glossary make this book a valuable supplement for readers of the Victorian novel.

Author : John Halliday (Poet.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000297834

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The Rustic Bard, Or, A Voice from the People; Being Miscellaneous Poems and Songs by John Halliday (Poet.) Pdf

Author : James Johonnot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049339604

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Stories of Heroic Deeds by James Johonnot Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000117502777

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Air Enthusiast by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B2972957

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The Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11602127

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Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter J. Casagrande
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349053278

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Unity in Hardy’s Novels by Peter J. Casagrande Pdf

Author : Luisa Camaiora
Publisher : EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788867801800

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Thomas Gray: poetry and poetic identity by Luisa Camaiora Pdf

Author : Phil May,Charles Keene,L. Raven-Hill,Will Owen,George du Maurier,C. E. Brock,F. H. Townsend,Bernard Partridge,Tom Browne,Lewis Baumer,G. D. Armour,Gunning King,Linley Sambourne,G. H. Jalland,G. E. Stampa
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : EAN:8596547566229

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Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics by Phil May,Charles Keene,L. Raven-Hill,Will Owen,George du Maurier,C. E. Brock,F. H. Townsend,Bernard Partridge,Tom Browne,Lewis Baumer,G. D. Armour,Gunning King,Linley Sambourne,G. H. Jalland,G. E. Stampa Pdf

"Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics" by Phil May, Charles Keene, L. Raven-Hill, Will Owen, George du Maurier, C. E. Brock, F. H. Townsend, Bernard Partridge, Tom Browne, Lewis Baumer, G. D. Armour, Gunning King, Linley Sambourne, G. H. Jalland, G. E. Stampa. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UGA:32108059112907

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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia by William Nicholson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066183877

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000482002

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74715512

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The Eclectic Magazine by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf