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Total Pages : 938 pages
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Download or read book A.L.A. Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jamieson Ridenhour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810887770
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book In Darkest London written by Jamieson Ridenhour and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In the late 1830s, London began appearing as a site of literary terror, and by the end of the century a large proportion of the important Victorian "Gothic revival" novels were set in the city: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Three Impostors, The Beetle, Dracula, and many others. In Darkest London is a full-length study of the Victorian Urban Gothic, a pervasive mode that appears not only in straightforward novels of terror like those mentioned above but also in the works of mainstream authors such as Charles Dickens and in the journalism and travel literature of the time. In this volume, author Jamieson Ridenhour looks beyond broad considerations of the Gothic as a historical mode to explore the development of London and the concurrent rise of the Urban Gothic. He also considers very specific aspects of London's representation in these works and draws upon recent and then-contemporary theories, close readings of relevant texts, and cartography to support and expand these ideas. This book examines the work of both canonical and non-canonical authors, including Dickens, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, G.W.M. Reynolds, Richard Marsh, Arthur Machen, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Oscar Wilde. Placing the conventions of the Gothic form in their proper historical context, In Darkest London will appeal to scholars and students interested in an in-depth survey of the Urban Gothic.
Author : Joseph De Sapio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137407220
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London written by Joseph De Sapio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210221
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
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Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Lancet London written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317780
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Literary Theories written by William Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical application, plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings. Clearly argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.
Author : William J. Keith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590741
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Richard Jefferies written by William J. Keith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1965-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate the more important and effective qualities of his work. Although he was not a major figure in English letteres, Jefferies was highly regarded for his essays on nature and the English countryside, studies of rural conditions, and regional novels; his work mirrors the rapid change taking place in agriculture at the time, and is of interest today to social historians and economists. This study begins with a brief biological account, and then proceeds to a discussion of individual works. An important feature is a comprehensive bibliography of Jefferies' books and pamphlets, arranged in order of publication to assist the readers in checking chronology. (Department of English Studies and Texts, No. 13)
Author : Leah Hyslop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472949048
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Made in London written by Leah Hyslop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tudor oyster peddlers and Victorian pie and mash shops, to the supper clubs and street food scene flourishing today, Britain's capital has always been a tantalizing draw for those who live to eat. In Made in London, born-and-bred Londoner Leah Hyslop offers a joyful celebration of the city and its food, past and present. The book features recipes invented in the city; such as the 18th century treat Chelsea buns (a favourite of King George II) and Omelette Arnold Bennett, created for the famous writer while staying at the Savoy Hotel. Alongside these are new, exciting dishes, inspired by the Leah's eating adventures around the capital: such as a mouthwatering Pimm's and lemon curd trifle, an unusual goat's cheese and cherry tart and an easy twist on Indian restaurant Dishoom's iconic bacon naan, one of the best brunches in London. Interspersed with the recipes are short, entertaining histories and profiles about London's food scene, including the tale of the 18th century 'gin craze'; a profile of the East End's most beloved greasy spoon; and why Scotch eggs might have actually been invented in a London department store! Short shopping guides, lifting the lid on such pressing gastronomic questions as where to buy cheese, the city's most delicious chocolate shops, or the best cocktail bars for a nightcap (or two...) are also featured. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary photographs of London, alongside vintage images sourced from historic archives, this is a book for anyone who has ever lived in, visited or simply dreamt of sipping a cocktail while watching red buses trundle by in the world's greatest city.
Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Leonard Summers
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book London's humourous side written by Alfred Leonard Summers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Pye
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137540176
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 written by Patricia Pye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in this period that London began to ‘sound modern’ and, through a closer hearing of its literature, writers’ wider responses to modernity are revealed. The book is structured into familiar modernist themes, revisiting time and space, social progress and popular culture through an exploration of the sound impressions of some key works. Each chapter is contextualized by these themes, revealing how the sound of the news, social protest, music hall and suburbanization impacted on writers’ literary imaginations. Suitable for students of modernist literature and specialists in sound studies, this book will also appeal to readers with a wider interest in London’s history and popular culture between 1880-1918.
Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merryn Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349014095
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Rural England written by Merryn Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Milne-Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137002085
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book London Clubland written by A. Milne-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
Author : Richard Jefferies
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392908
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Landscape with Figures written by Richard Jefferies and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labour. This superb selection of his essays and articles shows a writer who is brimming with intense feeling, acutely aware of the land and those who work on it, and often ambivalent about the countryside. Who does it belong to? Is it a place, an experience or a way of life? In these passionate and idiosyncratic writings, almost all our current ideas and concerns about rural life can be found. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was the son of a Wiltshire farmer. He never worked the land but made his living from writing, trekking across the countryside with his notebook. He spent much of his life struggling against poverty and tuberculosis, which would eventually kill him at the age of thirty-nine. As well as being in many ways the father of English nature writing, Jefferies also wrote the classic children's book Bevis and the apocalyptic science-fiction novel After London. Richard Mabey's introduction to his selection of Jefferies' work discusses the author's life, his views on the paradoxes of rural life and his place in the tradition of nature writers.
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Download or read book John O'London's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
