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Book Victorian Olympians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Publisher : Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Victorian Olympians written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales. This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Olympian Dreamers

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  • Author : Christopher Wood
  • Publisher : Constable & Robinson
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Olympian Dreamers written by Christopher Wood and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1983 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Olympians

Download or read book Victorian Olympians written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity

Download or read book Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity written by Simon Goldhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to establish how classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed Victorian ideas of the past, and consequently informed the very construction of modernity. Its multi-disciplinary approach will be valuable to scholars and graduate students in numerous disciplines across the arts and humanities.

Book Victorian Olympians

Download or read book Victorian Olympians written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pre Raphaelites and Olympians

Download or read book Pre Raphaelites and Olympians written by Richard Beresford and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Olympians

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  • Author : Renée Free
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book Victorian Olympians written by Renée Free and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Olympians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Publisher : Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Victorian Olympians written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales. This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Skin

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  • Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 1501731602
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Victorian Skin written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin.

Book Sport in Victoria

Download or read book Sport in Victoria written by Dave Nadel and published by Ryan Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the result of contributions from a wide range of sports writers, officials and historians, relates the fascinating history of over 100 sports played in Victoria since the 1830s. It also covers the important events, venues, clubs and leagues which characterise Victoria's sporting culture. Published under the auspices of the Australian Society for Sports History.

Book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage

Download or read book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.

Book Victorian Olympus

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Gaunt
  • Publisher : Jonathan Cape
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Victorian Olympus written by William Gaunt and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Olympians

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  • Author : John Clarke
  • Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1908684070
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Cultural Olympians written by John Clarke and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to explore key questions surrounding faith, philosophy, science, culture and social progress by celebrating the life and thought of cultural leaders from Rugby School (estd. 1567). Some of the most distinguished historians, philosophers, social commentators and religious commentators are alumni of Rugby School. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the most important values that guide and challenge us today, by reflecting on the achievements of these cultural heavyweights. This collection is edited by Patrick Derham, the current Headmaster of Rugby School. Contributors include: John Witheridge John Clarke Anthony Kenny David Urquhart Robin le Poidevin A.N. Wilson Andrew Vincent A.C. Grayling Jay Winter, Ian Hesketh David Boucher Rowan William Patrick Derham John Taylor

Book Female Olympians

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  • Author : Linda K. Fuller
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-12-07
  • ISBN : 1137582812
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Female Olympians written by Linda K. Fuller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women’s bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians’ successes.

Book Persephone Rises  1860   1927

Download or read book Persephone Rises 1860 1927 written by Margot K. Louis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the nineteenth century, the figure of Persephone rapidly evolved from what was essentially a decorative metaphor into a living goddess who embodied the most spiritual aspects of ancient Greek religion. In the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new spirituality but for comprehending the deep and bitter tensions surrounding gender that interacted with this process. Beginning with an overview of the most influential ancient texts on Persephone and references to Persephone in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic period writing, Louis shows that the earliest theories of matriarchy and patriarchal marriage emerged in the 1860s alongside the first English poems to explore Persephone's story. As scholars began to focus on the chthonic Mystery cults, and particularly on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, poets and novelists explored the divisions between mother and daughter occasioned by patriarchal marriage. Issues of fertility and ritual resonate in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Willa Cather's My Antonia, while the first advance of a neo-pagan spirituality, as well as early feminist critiques of male mythography and of the Persephone myth, emerge in Modernist poems and fictions from 1908 to 1927. Informed by the latest research and theoretical work on myth, Margot Louis's fascinating study shows the development of Victorian mythography in a new light; offers original takes on Victorian representations of gender and values; exposes how differently male and female Modernists dealt with issues of myth, ritual, and ancient spirituality; and uncovers how deeply the study of ancient spirituality is entwined with controversies about gender.

Book Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators

Download or read book Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators written by Stephen Bury and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 1341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary consists of over 3000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on British graphic artists and illustrators from the '2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists' with an additional 90 revised and 60 new articles.

Book Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality

Download or read book Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality written by Elizabeth Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on female modernists specifically, this volume examines spiritual issues and their connections to gender during the modernist period. Scholarly inquiry surrounding women writers and their relation to what Wassily Kandinsky famously hoped would be an ‘Epoch of the Great Spiritual’ has generated myriad contexts for closer analysis including: feminist theology, literary and religious history, psychoanalysis, queer and trauma theory. This book considers canonical authors such as Virginia Woolf while also attending to critically overlooked or poorly understood figures such as H.D., Mary Butts, Rose Macaulay, Evelyn Underhill, Christopher St. John and Dion Fortune. With wide-ranging topics such as the formally innovative poetry of Stevie Smith and Hope Mirrlees to Evelyn Underhill’s mystical treatises and correspondence, this collection of essays aims to grant voices to the mostly forgotten female voices of the modernist period, showing how spirituality played a vital role in their lives and writing.