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Book Victorian Panorama

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Wood
  • Publisher : London : Faber
  • Release : 1976-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780571107803
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Victorian Panorama written by Christopher Wood and published by London : Faber. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture

Download or read book Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture written by Sibylle Baumbach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces. This is an open access book.

Book Oriental Panorama

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  • Author : Schiffer
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN : 9004651179
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book Oriental Panorama written by Schiffer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Panorama

Download or read book Victorian Panorama written by Christopher Wood and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatres of Memory

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  • Author : Raphael Samuel
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781859840771
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Theatres of Memory written by Raphael Samuel and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an overview of how the past has been manipulated in art, politicized and sold to the consumer, yet takes issue with those who claim this interest in heritage is merely obsessive nostalgia. The author covers a multitude of topics, such as the Festival of Britain and conservation.

Book Victorian Panorama

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  • Author : Peter Courtney Quennell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Victorian Panorama written by Peter Courtney Quennell and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eminent Victorians

Download or read book Eminent Victorians written by Lytton Strachey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four "eminent Victorians" dropped an explosive charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and raised the genre to the level of high literary art. Strachey approached his subjects with skepticism rather than reverence, and his iconoclastic wit and engaging narratives thrilled as well as shocked his contemporaries. Debunking Church, Public School and Empire, his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and General Gordon of Khartoum changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. This edition is unique in being fully annotated and in drawing on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.

Book Victorian Panorama  a Survey of Life   Fashion From Contemporary Photographs

Download or read book Victorian Panorama a Survey of Life Fashion From Contemporary Photographs written by Peter 1905-1993 Quennell and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Victorian Panorama

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  • Author : Peter Quennell
  • Publisher : New York : Scribner
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Victorian Panorama written by Peter Quennell and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1937 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oriental Panorama

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  • Author : Reinhold Schiffer
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9789042007963
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Oriental Panorama written by Reinhold Schiffer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Worlds

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Worlds written by Keith Hanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century of forms of global experience that have developed more recently into rapidly expanding processes of globalization and their attendant collisions of race, religion, ethnicity, population groups, natural environments, national will and power. Emphasizing such links between global networks past and present, the essays in this volume engage with the latest work in postcolonial, cosmopolitan, and globalization theory while speaking directly to the most pressing concerns of contemporary geopolitics. Each essay examines specific cultural and historical circumstances in the formation of nineteenth-century worlds from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, political history, natural history, philosophy, the history of medicine and disease, religious studies, literary criticism, art history, and colonial studies. Detailed in their particular modes of analysis yet integrated into a collective conversation about the nineteenth century’s profound impact on our present worlds, these inquiries also explore the economic, political, and cultural determinants on nineteenth-century types of transnational experience as interweaving forces creating new material frameworks and conceptual models for comprehending major human categories—such as race, gender, subjectivity, and national identity—in global terms. As nineteenth-century global intersections differ in important ways from the shapes of globalization today, however, the essays in this volume generate new ways of understanding emergent patterns of worldwide experience in the age of imperialism and thereby stimulate fresh insights into the dynamics of global formations and conflicts today.

Book Are We There Yet

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  • Author : Alison Byerly
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2012-12-26
  • ISBN : 0472051865
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Are We There Yet written by Alison Byerly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

Book Canvas Documentaries

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  • Author : Mimi Colligan
  • Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780522850192
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Canvas Documentaries written by Mimi Colligan and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before cinema was invented, people went to picture shows. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Europe and America they were treated to dramatic pictorial spectacles. Audiences might be encircled by vast 360-degree canvases, or seated before continuous images drawn across a proscenium, or gathered in amusement parks to watch painted 3-D structures come 'alive' with the explosion of fireworks overhead. The sense of realism was enhanced by back-lighting, running commentaries and props such as real sand and trees. Canvas Documentaries captures the artistic, civic and social preoccupations of the times. Generously illustrated with paintings, etchings, engravings, mechanical drawings, architectural plans, photographs and advertising material, this beautiful book is a window on the vibrant popular culture of the Victorian era.

Book Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography written by John Hannavy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.

Book Space and Place in Children   s Literature  1789 to the Present

Download or read book Space and Place in Children s Literature 1789 to the Present written by Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children’s book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child’s relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children’s literature.

Book Imagining London  1770 1900

Download or read book Imagining London 1770 1900 written by A. Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the physical spaces of the metropolis, whose socially stratified and gendered topography was shaped by consumer culture and unregulated capitalism; and an imaginary 'London', an 'Unreal City' which reflected and influenced their understanding of, and actions in, the 'real' environment.

Book The Final Curtain

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  • Author : Harry Garlick
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9789042005686
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Final Curtain written by Harry Garlick and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garlick finds in state funerals a form of theatrical performance that reinforces the established rule, can appeal to vast audiences, and has advantages over some other forms of theater because of the emotional potency of its circumstances. After setting out a general context of appropriate theory, he presents a number of examples, among them the Medici esequie, the Duke of Wellington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Princess Diana. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR