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Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle

Author : Jane Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317576586
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle written by Jane Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of ‘needs’ to one ministering to anything that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace, social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet. The collection builds on recent critical developments in fin-de-siècle literature (including major interventions in the areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies of literary production/performance? And what relation exists between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and enhances the field of fin-de-siècle studies more generally.

London Nights

Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book London Nights written by Stephen Graham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

London Nights of Long Ago

Author : Shaw Desmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Nights of Long Ago written by Shaw Desmond and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Babylon or New Jerusalem?

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333037
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Babylon or New Jerusalem? written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever literature and the other arts make use of urban structures – it is in the city that the global and universal joins the local and individual. Babylon or New Jerusalem? Perceptions of the City in Literature draws a map of the concept of the city in literature and represents the major issues involved. Contributions to the volume revisit cities such as the London of Wordsworth, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf or Rilke’s Paris, but also travel to the politics of power in Renaissance theatre at Ferrara and to deliberate urban erasures in post-apartheid South Africa. The texts represented range from Renaissance plays to contemporary novels and to poetry from various periods, with references to the visual arts, including film. The role of memory in contemplating the city and also specific urban metaphors developed in literature, such as boxing – the square ring – and jazz are also discussed. The transformation of cities by legislation on cemeteries, by lighting or by projects of urban renewal are the subject of articles, while others reflect on images of the city in worlds specifically forged by writers like William Blake and James Thomson. The contributors themselves live and work in many varied cities, thus representing a dynamic and real variety of critical approaches, and introducing a strong theoretical and comparative element.

London's West End

Author : Rohan McWilliam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192556401
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book London's West End written by Rohan McWilliam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry. The area from the Strand to Oxford Street came to stand for sensation and vulgarity but also the promotion of high culture. The West End produced shows and fashions whose impact rippled outwards around the globe. During the nineteenth century, an area that serviced the needs of the aristocracy was opened up to a wider public whilst retaining the imprint of luxury and prestige. Rohan McWilliam tells the story of the great artists, actors and entrepreneurs who made the West End: figures such as Gilbert and Sullivan, the playwright Dion Boucicault, the music hall artiste Jenny Hill, and the American Harry Gordon Selfridge who wanted to create the best shop in the world. At the same time, McWilliam explores the distinctive spaces created in the West End, from the glamour of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through to low life bars and taverns. We encounter the origins of the modern star system and celebrity culture. London's West End, 1800-1914 moves from the creation of Regent Street to the glory days of the Edwardian period when the West End was the heart of empire and the entertainment industry. Much of modern culture and consumer society was shaped by a relatively small area in the middle of London. This pioneering study establishes why that was.

Arthur Symons

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415969673
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Arthur Symons written by Arthur Symons and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Music of John Ireland

Author : Fiona Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351750089
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Music of John Ireland written by Fiona Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.

Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885–1914

Author : Alan Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349071900
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885–1914 written by Alan Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Modern Poetry

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674399457
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Poetry written by David Perkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing.

Letters

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349102156
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Letters written by Arthur Symons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of letters by the symbolist critic and poet, Arthur Symons (1865-1945), including correspondence with such figures as James Joyce, W.B.Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Paul Verlaine, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy and Augustus John to reveal the world of literary London at the turn of the century.

Selected Early Poems

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781886075
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Selected Early Poems written by Arthur Symons and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Symons (1865–1945) was a central figure in the decadent phase of English poetry of the 1890s. His early verse, notably in the major collections Silhouettes (1892; revd 1896) and London Nights (1895; revd 1897), created a sophisticated new kind of urban poetry out of the gas-lit world of London theatre and night-life. Under the French influences of Baudelaire and Verlaine, Symons developed a wistful poetic eroticism new to English readers, leading the way to the modernism of T. S. Eliot and others in the next generation. This selection from Symons’s most fertile period as a poet reproduces the fuller revised editions of Silhouettes and London Nights in their entirety, together with related poems from his other early volumes, Days and Nights (1889), Amoris Victima (1897), Images of Good and Evil (1900), and with early poems collected in Knave of Hearts (1913). p.p1 {margin: 3.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'} Fully annotated and supplemented by related critical writings by Symons, Walter Pater, and others, this text offers students of late-Victorian literature a rich resource for the understanding of decadence in the London literary scene of the 1890s. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 7.9px Calibri}

Monsters under Glass

Author : Jane Desmarais
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140455
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Monsters under Glass written by Jane Desmarais and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the vegetable monsters of twentieth-century science fiction and the movies, comics, and video games of the present day. Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was only in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies stimulated the imagination of novelists, poets, and artists, and the hothouse entered the creative language in a highly charged way. Decadent writers in England and Europe—including Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde—transformed the hothouse from a functional object to a powerful metaphor of metropolitan life, sexuality, and being replete with a dark underside of decay and death; and of consciousness itself, nurtured and dissected under glass. In a study as wide-ranging, vivid, and beautiful as our beloved exotic blooms themselves, Jane Desmarais charts the history and influence of these humid, tropical worlds and their creations, providing a steamy window onto our recent past.

Reports, Public Works and Branches

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports, Public Works and Branches written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lyric Poem and Aestheticism

Author : Marion Thain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474415687
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Poem and Aestheticism written by Marion Thain and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the 'new lyric studies'. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne).

The Lyric in Victorian Memory

Author : Veronica Alfano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513079
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Lyric in Victorian Memory written by Veronica Alfano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition – that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.

Beyond Holy Russia

Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740124
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Holy Russia written by Michael Hughes and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nadine Dorries

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215554956
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Nadine Dorries written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee has received from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards the report (included as an appendix in this report) of his investigation of a complaint made in June 2009 against Nadine Dorries, the Member for Mid Bedfordshire. The complainant, Mr Michael Barnbrook, who at the time was a law and order spokesman for the British National Party, told the Commissioner that in his view Ms Dorries had breached the rules of the Additional Cost Allowance by claiming second home expenses in respect of her constituency home, which Mr Barnbrook said was in fact her main home. The Commissioner found that the constituency home was not Ms Dorries' main home, and did not uphold the complaint. Whilst investigating the complaint, the Commissioner also found that Ms Dorries had breached the rules by failing to notify the Department of Resources of two changes to the address of her main home. The Commissioner does not regard this breach as serious. The Committee agree with the Commissioner's findings.