Vice And The Victorians

Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : 1474219675

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Vice and the Victorians by Mike Huggins Pdf

"Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472525567

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Vice and the Victorians by Mike Huggins Pdf

Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400842186

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price Pdf

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898702585

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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Pdf

Author : Ian Gibson
Publisher : Duckbacks
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Flagellants and flagellation
ISBN : 0715613901

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The English Vice by Ian Gibson Pdf

Sub-titled Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, this is a serious study of flogging and flagellation in English society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali.

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813944333

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Victorians on Broadway by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Pdf

Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What could possibly explain their enormous success? Victorians on Broadway is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive and considers their enduring popularity and impact on our modern culture. Providing a front row seat to the hits (as well as the flops), Weltman situates these adaptations within the history of musical theater: the Golden Age of Broadway, the concept musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, and the era of pop mega-musicals, revealing Broadway’s debt to melodrama. With an expertise in Victorian literature, Weltman draws on reviews, critical analyses, and interviews with such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Polly Pen, Frank Wildhorn, and Rowan Atkinson to understand this popular trend in American theater. Exploring themes of race, religion, gender, and class, Weltman focuses attention on how these theatrical adaptations fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements while demonstrating the complexity of their enduring legacy.

Author : John F. M. Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300150919

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Bugs and the Victorians by John F. M. Clark Pdf

This text explores how science became increasingly important in 19th century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life.

Author : Ian Gibson
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000175709

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The English Vice by Ian Gibson Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780857895615

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Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves by Jacqueline Yallop Pdf

During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.

Author : Andrew M. Eason,Roger J. Green
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498561167

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Settled Views by Andrew M. Eason,Roger J. Green Pdf

As the first scholarly anthology of its kind, Settled Views: The Shorter Writings of Catherine Booth provides fresh insight into the life and thought of the Salvation Army’s cofounder. Above all, it demonstrates the depth of her convictions on salvation, holiness of life, female preaching, social issues and world evangelization.

Author : KJ Charles
Publisher : Loveswept
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399593970

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An Unnatural Vice by KJ Charles Pdf

In the sordid streets of Victorian London, unwanted desire flares between two bitter enemies brought together by a deadly secret. Crusading journalist Nathaniel Roy is determined to expose spiritualists who exploit the grief of bereaved and vulnerable people. First on his list is the so-called Seer of London, Justin Lazarus. Nathaniel expects him to be a cheap, heartless fraud. He doesn’t expect to meet a man with a sinful smile and the eyes of a fallen angel—or that a shameless swindler will spark his desires for the first time in years. Justin feels no remorse for the lies he spins during his séances. His gullible clients simply bore him. Hostile, disbelieving, utterly irresistible Nathaniel is a fascinating challenge. And as their battle of wills and wits heats up, Justin finds he can’t stop thinking about the man who’s determined to ruin him. But Justin and Nathaniel are linked by more than their fast-growing obsession with one another. They are both caught up in an aristocratic family’s secrets, and Justin holds information that could be lethal. As killers, fanatics, and fog close in, Nathaniel is the only man Justin can trust—and, perhaps, the only man he could love. Don’t miss any of the captivating Sins of the Cities novels: AN UNSEEN ATTRACTION | AN UNNATURAL VICE | AN UNSUITABLE HEIR And look for the enticing Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles: THE RUIN OF GABRIEL ASHLEIGH | A FASHIONABLE INDULGENCE | A SEDITIOUS AFFAIR | A GENTLEMAN’S POSITION Praise for An Unnatural Vice “Explosive.”—Publishers Weekly “Animosity and attraction surge in equal measures when Nathaniel Roy, investigative journalist, faces off against Justin Lazarus, the Seer of London. Their opposing vocations and radically different backgrounds create a powerful and fascinating conflict. Although this book can be read as a stand-alone, [K. J.] Charles continues to build tension and add menace by deepening the overarching mystery introduced in the first novel. The series is definitely building to a firecracker conclusion.”—RT Book Reviews “An Unnatural Vice is a tremendous follow-up to the first book in the Sins of the City trilogy. Fans of the series—and of K. J. Charles—will love the romance between Nathaniel and Justin, and the Taillefer family mystery. . . . An Unnatural Vice is exciting, entertaining, romantic—and wonderful.”—All About Romance Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

Author : Stephen Garton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489016

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Histories of Sexuality by Stephen Garton Pdf

This book presents the first assessment of one of the most rapidly expanding fields of research: the history of sexuality. From the early efforts of historians to work out a model for sexual history, to the extraordinary impact of French philosopher Michel Foucault, to the vigorous debates about essentialism and social constructionism, to the emergence of contemporary debates about historicism, queer theory, embodiment, gender and cultural history - we now have vast and diverse historical scholarship on sex and sexuality. 'Histories of Sexuality' highlights the key historical moments and issues: pederasty and cultures of male passivity in ancient Greece and Rome; the impact of early Christianity and ideals of renunciation on the sexual cultures of late antiquity; the sustained existence of homosexual cultures in medieval and renaissance Europe; the "invention" of homosexuality and heterosexuality in eighteenth century Europe and America; the truth behind Victorian sexual repression; the work of reformers and scientists such as Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, Stella Browne, Margaret Sanger, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson.

Author : Trevor Fisher
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X006128405

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Prostitution and the Victorians by Trevor Fisher Pdf

Fascinating excerpts from newspapers, journals, diaries, and letters show that although prostitution was widespread in Victorian Britain, it was not altogether considerd amoral.

Author : Rene Denfeld
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0446565237

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The New Victorians by Rene Denfeld Pdf

Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s. Here she offers a practial battle plan which includes confronting the issues of child care and birth control, working for equal government representation, and treating sexual assault as a serious crime.

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521270642

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Prostitution and Victorian Society by Judith R. Walkowitz Pdf

A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.