Victoria S Lost Pavilion

Author : Paul Fyfe,Antony Harrison,David B. Hill,Sharon L. Joffe,Sharon M. Setzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349951956

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Victoria's Lost Pavilion by Paul Fyfe,Antony Harrison,David B. Hill,Sharon L. Joffe,Sharon M. Setzer Pdf

This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental contents, the controversies of its critical reception, and how it has been digitally remediated. The chapters discuss how the pavilion, decorated with frescos and encaustics by some of the most prominent painters of the mid-nineteenth century, became the center of a national conversation about an identity for British art, the capacity of its artists, and the quality of Royal and public taste. Beyond an examination of the pavilion's history, this book also introduces a digital model which restores the pavilion to virtual life, underscoring the importance of the pavilion for Victorian aesthetics and culture.

Author : James O’Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350232136

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities by James O’Sullivan Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age. Comprising 43 essays from some of the field's leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change. The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities: Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability. Reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of the digital humanities. Features an intuitive structure which divides topics across five sections: “Perspectives & Polemics”, “Methods, Tools & Techniques”, “Public Digital Humanities”, “Institutional Contexts”, and “DH Futures”. Comprehensive in scope and accessibility written, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities and wider arts and humanities. Featuring contributions from pre-eminent scholars and radical thinkers both established and emerging, The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities should long serve as a roadmap through the myriad formulations, methodologies, opportunities, and limitations of DH. Comprehensive in its scope, pithy in style yet forensic in its scholarship, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities, whatever DH might be, and whatever DH might become.

Author : Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191648274

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner Pdf

In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This 'medievalism' led, for instance, to the rituals and ornament of the Medieval Catholic church being reintroduced to Anglicanism. It led to the Saxon Witan being celebrated as a prototypical representative parliament. It resulted in Viking raiders being acclaimed as the forefathers of the British navy. And it encouraged innumerable nineteenth-century men to cultivate the superlative beards we now think of as typically 'Victorian'—in an attempt to emulate their Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Different facets of medieval life, and different periods before the Renaissance, were utilized in nineteenth-century Britain for divergent political and cultural agendas. Medievalism also became a dominant mode in Victorian art and architecture, with 75 per cent of churches in England built on a Gothic rather than a classical model. And it was pervasive in a wide variety of literary forms, from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse to triple-decker novels. Medievalism even transformed nineteenth-century domesticity: while only a minority added moats and portcullises to their homes, the medieval-style textiles produced by Morris and Co. decorated many affluent drawing rooms. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism is the first work to examine in full the fascinating phenomenon of 'medievalism' in Victorian Britain. Covering art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, music, and social reform, the Handbook also surveys earlier forms of antiquarianism that established the groundwork for Victorian movements. In addition, this collection addresses the international context, by mapping the spread of medievalism across Europe, South America, and India, amongst other places.

Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611490602

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Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court by Stanley Weintraub Pdf

Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In theyoung nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with herdeath in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in which the young United States was growing up. The responses of Americans toward Victoria reveal not only what they thought of her (and her husband) as people and as monarchs, but reflect their own ambitions, confidence, smugness, insecurities-and sense of loss. Parting from England brought a surge of pride, but it also carried with it an unanticipated price. American encounters with Queen Victoria asperson and as symbol evoke the costs of relinquishing a history, a tradition, a ceremonial texture. The brash, bewildered and beguiled Americans in these pages, from lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh, Barnum's midget "Tom Thumb" and sharpshooter Annie Oakley,to literary lions like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain and Henry James evince not only another dimension of the remote woman who might have been their queen, but what Americans were like, and what they thought they were like, in her time.

Author : Ellen Datlow,Terri Windling
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429960915

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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells by Ellen Datlow,Terri Windling Pdf

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors including Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked. "Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. Includes short stories by Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine, Maureen McHugh, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Wein, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Margaret Homans,Adrienne Munich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521573793

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Remaking Queen Victoria by Margaret Homans,Adrienne Munich Pdf

Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her a multifaceted icon serving their social and economic needs. In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, she baffled expectations throughout her reign. She was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but she also became the focus of anxieties about powerful women, and - increasingly - of anger about Britain's imperial aims. Each essay analyses a different aspect of this complex and fascinating figure. Contributors include noted scholars in the field of literature, cultural studies, art history, and women's studies.

Author : Rosemary Lauder
Publisher : Alison Hodge Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0906720346

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The Devon Gardens Guide by Rosemary Lauder Pdf

A comprehensive visitor's guide to some 130 gardens in Devon. Illustrated with colour photographs, it includes a general introduction to the geology, climate and garden history of Devon; a list of nurseries and garden centres in the county, and a calendar of opening times. It is suitable for garden-lovers, whether visitors to the county or locals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Derby (England)
ISBN : NYPL:33433075903330

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Permanent Record of Queen Victoria's State Visit to Derby by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yasmeen Lari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Lahore (Pakistan)
ISBN : UOM:39015064126777

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Lahore by Yasmeen Lari Pdf

Author : Roger D. Long,Ian Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351364720

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India and World War I by Roger D. Long,Ian Talbot Pdf

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the century, including the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism to the Great Crash of 1929 which lead to the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany. It marked a turning point in world history as the end of the historical era of European dominance and the ushering in of a period which accelerated demands for freedom and autonomy in colonial settings. India played a significant role in the war and in the Allied victory on the battlefield. This book explores India’s involvement in the Great War and the way the war impacted upon the country from a variety of different viewpoints including case studies focusing on key individuals who played vital roles in the war. The long and short term impacts of the war on different locations in India are also explored in the chapters which offer an analysis of the importance of the war on India while commemorating the sacrifices which were made. A new, innovative and multidisciplinary examination of India and World War I, this book presents a select number of case studies showing the intimate relationship of the global war and its social, political and economic impacts on the Indian subcontinent. It will be of interest to academics in the field of War Studies, Colonial and Imperial History and South Asian and Modern Indian History.

Author : Felix Winternitz,Sacha Bellman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461746928

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Insiders' Guide® to Cincinnati by Felix Winternitz,Sacha Bellman Pdf

For those looking to visit Cincinnati or considering moving there, Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati is the essential source for information about this thriving Ohio city. Written by locals with first-hand experience in the region, this exceedingly useful and practical guide offers a personal perspective of Cincinnati and its surroundings and includes three maps of the area.

Author : Nicole Polizzi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451657081

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Gorilla Beach by Nicole Polizzi Pdf

Gia and Bella return to Seaside Heights for another sexy summer on the beach, where they pursue tans, fun, and the gorilla juiceheads of their dreams.

Author : Sir Walter Besant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435058344409

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Fifty Years Ago by Sir Walter Besant Pdf

Author : John Bennion Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Horse racing
ISBN : UGA:32108000858897

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A "Pink 'un" Remembers by John Bennion Booth Pdf

Examines the variety of life found in a rain forest, including the flying gecko, poison dart frog, and curly-haired tarantula.

Author : Jules Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857720627

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Albert by Jules Stewart Pdf

Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th century Britain - a superpower at the zenith of its influence - more than any other British royal or politician. Although he pleaded with his wife that no monument to his memory should be left (a plea that was to go unheeded by his grieving widow) the role he played in shaping Victorian culture stands today as indisputable proof of the enduring legacy of a man who spent just two decades of his short life in England. Though overshadowed in history by his adoring wife, and at times even mocked by her subjects, it was arguably Albert that gave form and substance to the Victorian Age. From the outset, he strove to win 'the respect, the love and the confidence of the Queen and of the nation', pursuing an extraordinary social and cultural crusade that has become his greatest legacy. From the Great Exhibition and the construction of many of London's great museums to his social campaigns against slavery and the Corn Laws, Albert's achievements were truly remarkable - in fact, very few have made such a permanent mark on British society. This is the life story of Albert of Saxe-Coburg: Prince Consort and beloved husband of Queen Victoria - and one of the most influential figures of modern Europe.