Download or read book Playing with the Beard microform the Economic Constitution of Masculinity in Early Modern English Children s Drama written by Mark Albert Johnston and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that the beard was primarily an economic signifier of gender and status in productions by troupes of boys in early modern England and that it signified both in its presence and in its absence. I set out to show that facial hair was popularly imagined to be a naturally occurring signifier of privileged masculinity, that the early modern English beard was regulated and therefore essentially prosthetic, and that masculinity itself was economically constituted. My premise, then, is that the early modern English beard acquired a cultural and economic value that was informed by the ideological freight that it carried and that in performance it gestured toward a complex interplay among masculinity, theatricality, and economics. In my examination of the ways in which beardedness came to represent English masculinity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, I consider the ways in which the beard signified in early Tudor England as a marker of racial differentiation, how beardlessness became iconographic of the sodomite in sixteenth-century depictions of the New World, and how Henry VIII's exchange of the image of his reputedly golden beard effectively replaced the actual gold in the coins minted in 1544. I examine the use of the prosthetic beard by children's troupes in early modern England and assert that in productions where the actors were exclusively boys, beards literally created masculinity. I also suggest that early modern English boy companies may have been in some small part responsible for the perceived stability of facial hair as a signifier of privileged masculinity. I consider the preservation and excision of beards from classical models for two early modern English interludes performed by boys, the homoerotic implications of the smooth-faced catamite and parasite in non-dramatic and dramatic texts, the parodic beard as manifested on the face of the braggart soldier, the beard's relationship to patriarchal privilege and primogeniture, the extent to which the beard's significance changes or remains consistent as the socio-economic system in which it inheres undergoes change, the significance of the beard in contemporary sexological treatises and dramatic representations of hermaphroditism, the dramatic representations of the barber as they are informed by the value attributed to the early modern English beard, the spectacle of the bearded woman and the alternate economy instantiated by the "beard below," and the gender and class disguise potential of the prosthetic beard. Finally, I consider the ways in which the use of the prosthetic beard by boy actors in early modern England gestures toward boyhood as an intermediate gender term and gender itself as prosthetic.
Download or read book Of Beards and Men written by Christopher Oldstone-Moore and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Beards of History written by Kellen Roggenbuck and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves beards, so why not learn about some of the greatest beards in history? From Abraham Lincoln to Mr. T, these quirky illustrations will have you laughing along with the bearded person in your life. This book is about some great bearded historical figures, but it's also highlighting the number one beard in a child's life - his dad's! Another fun, colorful book from author/illustrator Kellen Roggenbuck! Your young reader will love it, and it makes a perfect gift for new bearded dads!
Download or read book The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama written by Mario DiGangi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insights from materialist, queer and feminist theory to show the centrality of homoerotic practices.
Download or read book International Books in Print 1988 written by Archie Rugh and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Progressive Historians written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights.
Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by and published by National Archives & Records Administration. This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published : Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1978.
Download or read book Triumph at the falls written by Leland R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media and the American Mind written by Daniel J. Czitrom and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
Download or read book American Slavery as it is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting the message through A Branch History of the U S Army Signal Corps written by Rebecca Robbins Raines and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the Message Through, the companion volume to Rebecca Robbins Raines' Signal Corps, traces the evolution of the corps from the appointment of the first signal officer on the eve of the Civil War, through its stages of growth and change, to its service in Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. Raines highlights not only the increasingly specialized nature of warfare and the rise of sophisticated communications technology, but also such diverse missions as weather reporting and military aviation. Information dominance in the form of superior communications is considered to be sine qua non to modern warfare. As Raines ably shows, the Signal Corps--once considered by some Army officers to be of little or no military value--and the communications it provides have become integral to all aspects of military operations on modern digitized battlefields. The volume is an invaluable reference source for anyone interested in the institutional history of the branch.
Download or read book The Lion of the West and the Bucktails written by James Kirke Paulding and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bucktails turns British disdain for their crude, uncivilized former colonists against the effete representatives of the Old Order. The Lion of the West, written more than a decade and a half later, not only scored a great popular success on both sides of the Atlantic but also supplied a template for the conventional portrait of the Westerner and for the humor of the Old South West.
Download or read book Vinaver Plays 2 written by Michel Vinaver and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights High Places: "A drama which, from second to second, maintains the spectator in suspense, and which, by the same stroke, achieves the dimension of pure, great metaphysical theatre." (Le Monde); The Neighbours " bizarre contemporary vaudeville, biting, disturbing, very subtle and wildly funny" (Le Figaro); Portrait of a Woman: "An intriguing challenging piece." (Financial Times); The Television Programme: "The piece is beautifully plotted and written from the heart." (Independent on Sunday) The translators are Gideon Y. Schein (High Places); Paul Antal (The Neighbours); Donald Watson (Portrait of a Woman); David and Hannah Bradby (The Television Programme)
Download or read book The Sword of Judith written by Kevin R. Brine and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
Download or read book Humanitarianism in the Modern World written by Norbert Götz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Download or read book The Letters of Centinel written by Samuel Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom by the Sword written by William A. Dobak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains, and still others took part in major operations like the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments took up posts in the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Thanks to its broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.
