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Aristocratic Vice

Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185529
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Vice written by Donna T. Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough to punish those perpetrators who were members of the elite. In this exciting new book, Andrew explores each vice’s treatment by the press at the time and shows how a century of public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of “class superiority” among the soon-to-emerge British middle class. “Donna Andrew continues to illuminate the mental landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. . . . No historian of the period has made greater or more effective use of the newspaper press as a source for cultural history than she. This book is evidently the product of a great deal of work and is likely to stimulate further work.”—Joanna Innes, University of Oxford /div

Aristocratic Vice

Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300184336
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Vice written by Donna T. Andrew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: div Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England—duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling—and the subsequent emergence of the middle class./DIV

Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867

Author : M. O'Cinneide
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230583326
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867 written by M. O'Cinneide and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.

Modernism and the Aristocracy

Author : Adam Parkes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019286629X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Aristocracy written by Adam Parkes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time, this radical redrawing of the social and political map provoked a newly intensified fascination with the aristocracy among modern writers. Undone by history, the British aristocracy and its Anglo-Irish cousins were remade by literary modernism. Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege is about the results of that remaking. The book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Ford Madox Ford, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, and others writing in Britain and Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Combining an historical focus on the decades between the two world wars with close attention to the verbal textures and formal structures of literary texts, Adam Parkes asks: What did the decline of the British aristocracy do for modernist writers? What imaginative and creative opportunities did the historical fate of the aristocracy precipitate in writers of the new democratic age? Exploring a range of feelings, affects, and attitudes that modernist authors associated with the aristocracy in the interwar period--from stupidity, boredom, and nostalgia to sophistication, cruelty, and kindness--the book also asks what impact this subject-matter has on the form and style of modernist texts, and why the results have appealed to readers then and now. In tackling such questions, Parkes argues for a reawakening of curiosity about connections between class, status, and literature in the modernist period.

Presenting Women Philosophers

Author : Cecile Thérèse Tougas
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566397612
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Presenting Women Philosophers written by Cecile Thérèse Tougas and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western philosophy has long excluded the work of women thinkers from their canon. Presenting Women Philosophers addresses this exclusion by examining the breadth of women's contributions to Western thought over some 900 years. Editors Cecile T. Tougas and Sara Ebenreck have gathered essays and other writings that reflect women's deep engagement with the meaning of individual experience as well as the continuity of their philosophical concerns and practices. Arranged thematically, the collection ranges across eras and literary genres as it emphasizes the intellectual significance of written work by key figures--for example, Hildegard of Bingen's visionary writings, Iris Murdoch's fiction, Hannah Arendt's historical narratives, and the oral storytelling in black women's literary tradition. The collection also brings to light the philosophical importance of little-known work by such writers as Mme de Sabl and Mme de Condorcet. This wide-ranging collection offers non-philosophers an introduction to women's thought but also promises to engage advanced students of philosophy with new research on unrecognized contributions. Author note: Cecile T. Tougas, formerly an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is a teacher of Latin and Algebra at Ben Franklin Academy in Atlanta. Sara Ebenreck is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

The Southern Review

Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Review written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

Author : Wayne R. Dynes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368142
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Homosexuality written by Wayne R. Dynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book’s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer to issues and difficulties that still exist today. This volume contains entries from A-L.

Fonthill Recovered

Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350479
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.

Island of Vice

Author : Richard Zacks
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385534027
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Island of Vice written by Richard Zacks and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICE In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, glittering casinos, and all-night dives packed onto the island’s two dozen square miles. Police captains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, bestselling author Richard Zacks paints a vivid picture of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the cocksure crusading police commissioner who resolved to clean up the bustling metropolis, where the silk top hats of Wall Street bobbed past teenage prostitutes trawling Broadway. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how Roosevelt went head-to-head with corrupt Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, banned barroom drinking on Sundays, and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. In doing so, Teddy made a ruthless enemy of police captain “Big Bill” Devery, who grew up in the Irish slums and never tired of fighting “tin soldier” reformers. Roosevelt saw his mission as a battle of good versus evil; Devery saw prudery standing in the way of fun and profit. When righteous Roosevelt’s vice crackdown started to succeed all too well, many of his own supporters began to turn on him. Cynical newspapermen mocked his quixotic quest, his own political party abandoned him, and Roosevelt discovered that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. Zacks’s meticulous research and wonderful sense of narrative verve bring this disparate cast of both pious and bawdy New Yorkers to life. With cameos by Stephen Crane, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Pulitzer, plus a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable portrait of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory, and a brilliant portrayal of the energetic, confident, and zealous Roosevelt, one of America’s most colorful public figures.

The Profligate Son

Author : Nicola Phillips
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465037747
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Profligate Son written by Nicola Phillips and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foppish, impulsive, and philandering: William Jackson was every Georgian parent's worst nightmare. Gentlemen were expected to be honorable and virtuous, but William was the opposite, much to the dismay of his father, a well-to-do representative of the East India Company in Madras. In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips meticulously reconstructs William's life from a recently discovered family archive, describing how his youthful misbehavior reduced his family to ruin. At first, William seemed destined for a life of great fortune, but before long, he was indulging regularly in pornography and brothels and using his father's abundant credit to swindle tradesmen. Eventually, William found himself in debtor's prison and then on a long, typhus-ridden voyage to an Australian penal colony. He spent the rest of his days there, dying a pauper at the age of thirty-seven. A masterpiece of literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India, to London's elegant squares and seedy brothels, to the sunbaked shores of Australia, tracing the arc of a life long buried in history.

Cosmopolitan

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cosmopolitan

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510748
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 written by Daniel O'Quinn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport’s impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century. Editors Daniel O’Quinn and Alexis Tadié have gathered together an array of European and North American scholars to critically examine the educational, political, and medical contexts that separated sports from other physical activities. The volume reveals how the mediation of sporting activities, through match reports, pictures, and players, transcended the field of aristocratic patronage and gave rise to the social and economic forces we now associate with sports. In Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 , O’Quinn and Tadié successfully lay the groundwork for future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and representation in sports culture.

Suffrage Outside Suffragism

Author : M. Boussahba-Bravard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230801315
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Suffrage Outside Suffragism written by M. Boussahba-Bravard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays systematically explores how a sample of political groupings not founded on suffrage reacted and accommodated the issue of suffrage within their official discourses and structures. The volume leads to the heart and core of suffragism while examining the dynamics and versatilities of the Edwardian political fabric.

The Postcolonial Jane Austen

Author : You-Me Park
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134297335
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Jane Austen written by You-Me Park and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire * revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context * exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism. Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.

Anglicanism and the Fathers

Author : William Edward Addis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Anglicanism and the Fathers written by William Edward Addis and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rejected synodical addresses on the dangers&shortcomings of the Established Church. By a clergyman of the Diocese of Salisbury, etc

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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