Download or read book Victorians Undone written by Kathryn Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Medieval Crossbow written by ELLIS-GORMAN STUART and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which is why Stuart Ellis-Gorman's detailed, accessible, and highly illustrated study is so valuable. The Medieval Crossbow approaches the history of the crossbow from two directions. The first is a technical study of the design and construction of the medieval crossbow, the many different kinds of crossbows used during the Middle Ages, and finally a consideration of the relationship between crossbows and art. The second half of the book explores the history of the crossbow, from its origins in ancient China to its decline in sixteenth-century Europe. Along the way it explores the challenges in deciphering the crossbow's early medieval history as well as its prominence in warfare and sport shooting in the High and Later Middle Ages. This fascinating book brings together the work of a wide range of accomplished crossbow scholars and incorporates the author's own original research to create an account of the medieval crossbow that will appeal to anyone looking to gain an insight into one of the most important weapons of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories Victorian Romance written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era is the perfect setting for a good love story. The romantic tales of the time could be sweet, dramatic or breathtaking - there are stories for all tastes! August Nemo selected seven stories with love stories in the Victorian era: - Angela By William Schwenck Gilbert - The Parson's Daughter Oxney Colne By Anthony Trollope - Anthony Gartin's Courtship By Hubert Crackanthorpe - Right At Last By Elizabeth Gaskell - Mr. Captain and the Nymph By Wilkie Collins - A Story Of A Wedding Tour By Margaret Oliphant - A Faithful Heart By George Moore
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by Walter Besant et al and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing: This collection of short stories explores the complexities of marriage and relationships in Victorian England. Featuring works by some of the era's most influential writers, including Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories capture the tensions and struggles of couples in a society that placed strict expectations and limitations on women. Key Aspects of the Book "Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case": Marriage and Gender: The stories highlight the gendered expectations and limitations that shaped marriage and relationships in Victorian England. Psychology and Emotion: The stories delve into the complex psychology and emotional struggles of couples facing difficulties in their relationships. Literary Significance: The collection features works by some of the most important writers of the Victorian era, providing valuable insights into the literary and cultural currents of the time. Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing were all influential writers of the Victorian era, known for their contributions to literature and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, a collection of short stories focused on troubled marriages and relationships, highlights the cultural and social forces that shaped Victorian attitudes toward love, marriage, and gender.
Download or read book Anti Semitism in British Society 1876 1939 written by Colin Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and economic unrest, hostility towards the Jewish community reached its peak. Colin Holmes identifies the main strands of anti-semitic thought and their expression, starting with the Eastern Crisis of 1876 which sparked off the first serious manifestation of anti-semitism. He shows how, before 1914, opposition towards Jews rested on religious and other perceived cultural distinctions. It was only after the First World War that a sinister and significant change of emphasis occurred: racism now became the dominant feature of anti-semitism and was reinforced by theories of conspiracy, the most notorious being The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Anti-semitism has no uniform cause or characteristic and a single explanation cannot suffice. This book elucidates the complex range of factors involved, using both historical and sociological methods and drawing on extensive (and sometimes controversial) research.
Download or read book Prose by Victorian Women written by Andrea Broomfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others.
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose 1832 1901 written by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience. The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.
Download or read book Victorian Worthies written by George Henry Blore and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Gospel Triumphs Among the Jews During the Victorian Era written by John Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BUCKLEY BATMAN MYNDIE Echoes of the Victorian culture clash frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding 7 begins with Echo 107 titled CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EYES ON THE OZ CULTURE-CLASH FRONTIER followed by echoes on BUCKLEY REVISITED, AFTER THE PROTECTORATE CRUMBLED and WHAT OF PROTECTOR ROBINSON? Echoes follow on salvaging tribal ways, the Merri Creek black orphanage, ‘going round the bend’ at the Asylum and Echo 114: THE CELESTIALS OF VICTORIA, being the resented Chinese gold miners. Exploring the contrasting fate of Batman, La Trobe and Derrimut, leads into echoes on fringe-dwelling, cultural resistance and Oz racism, in particular the mass psychology of racist ideology that culminated with World War 2. After the gold rush era, life and right behaviour at the Healesville Coranderrk mission station and re-thinking William Thomas the Aboriginal Guardian lead to the pleasant notion of civilizing British colonies through sport. The life and exploits of Tom Wills is celebrated in Echo 122: THE MAKING & BREAKING OF VICTORIA’S FIRST SPORTING HERO. Turning to political history, Oz class struggles – convicts, capitalism and nation-building asks the question with Echo 124: WHITHER MARXISM [?] and then BRITISH EMPIRE POLICY REFORMS IN THE 1840s to contain a Chartist-led revolution. Facets of Victorian ‘quality of life’ since the land grab are followed by echoes on the astrology of the 1802 Port Phillip Crown possession claim and an echo titled TOWARDS AN ASTROLOGY OF CIVILIZATION. The Sounding concludes with approaches to researching Aboriginal society, an undergraduate essay on the Dreamtime and finally with Echo 130: A RAINBOW SERPENT BRIDGE. Today in the 21s century, I wonder how differently Oz would have developed if the then ruling British government in Sydney and London had not used censorship to delay the gold rush for almost 40 years! Sounding 8 begins with Echo 131: HISTORY DISTORTION & CENSORSHIP and is backed up with a critique of Britannia’s pirate empire that together spawn two more echoes of doubtful but controversial polemics in 1421 – THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD suggesting they were here in Oz many centuries before Captain Cook. Echo 135: THE KADAITCHA SUNG MEETS THE DRUID INHERITANCE pits Palm Islander Sam Watson’s 1990s fiction The Kadaitcha Sung [the ‘clever’ occult Oz Dreamtime] in occult war with the equally ancient European / Celtic / Druid magic in the psyche of the Aryan ‘race’, so to speak. Going even further out on a limb, the focus shifts to recent light shed on ‘dark ages barbarians’ now considered by some historians to have been more culturally refined than the modern city individual. Back in Oz with Echo 137: WHITE MAN’S LAW – BLACKFELLOW LAW and Echo 138: McLEOD’S BUCKET FROM SKULL CREEK brings Western Australia after WW2 into wider awareness with the Pilbara pastoral workers strike of 1946-49 that won half-decent wage rights for Aboriginal stockmen. Moving further north, Echo 141: RECENT ARNHEMLAND CONNECTIONS Part 1: Taming the NT is the stuff of White Australia’s race-based patriotism as depicted in Ion Idriess’s once-mainstream fascist fictions counterpointed by Part 2: James Gaykamangus’s Striving to bridge the chasm: my cultural learning journey. The final echo 142 talks treaty.
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part IV Volume 2 written by Ralph Pite and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Political Figures Part I Volume 4 written by Nancy LoPatin-Lummis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature. Volume 4 covers the political life of William Ewart Gladstone (Part II).
Download or read book Victorian Hansard Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Council and Assembly written by Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Fantasy written by Stephen Prickett and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from being just children's literature, Victorian Fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of Victorianism. In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques--nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds--to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development of their art form, their influences on each other, and how these writers used fantasy to question the ideology of Victorian culture and society.
Download or read book Everybody s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Jewellery written by Margaret Flower and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and informative look at Victorian jewellery, split into three eras - 'The Early Victorian, or Romantic Period (1837-60)', 'The Mid-Victorian, or Grand Period (1860-85)' and 'The Late Victorian, or Aesthetic Period (1885-1901)', each accompanied by extensive photographic illustrations. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Victorian jewellery.
