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ISBN 13 : 9787270009711
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Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter FRYER
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Download or read book Mrs Grundy: a Study in English Prudery written by Peter FRYER and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611450071
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Adventure of English written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303589
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The English written by Jeremy Paxman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race? Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century. “Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair
Author : Jerrold Seigel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018102
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Modernity and Bourgeois Life written by Jerrold Seigel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.
Author : J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136332316
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Sport in Australasian Society written by J A Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local and regional esteem. This collection explores the political, social and aesthetic influence of modern sport, attitudes to the body and the evolution of specific Australasian visions of sport.
Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830850
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.
Author : Victor Kiernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783604301
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Lords of Human Kind written by Victor Kiernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.
Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814746554
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality incorporates many different and fruitful approaches to understanding gender and sexuality. In this collection, Nikki R. Keddie presents essays, chosen from the journal Contention, written by outstanding scholars and theorists, along with responses to them. Topics discussed include procreation and female oppression, trends in feminist theory, gender and U.S. social policy, Marxism and women's history, the male search for identity today and the works of Foucault and Freud. Contributors include Nicky Hart, Juliet Mitchell, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Barbara Laslett, Sandra Harding, Linda Gordon, Theda Skocpol, Deborah Valenze, Iris Berger, Philippa Levine, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Theodore C. Kent, Roy Porter, Mark Poster, Jeffrey Masson, Frederick Crews, and Jeffrey Prager.
Author : N. Crowson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234070
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book NGOs in Contemporary Britain written by N. Crowson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with the politics of the ballot box.
Author : Mina Gorji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136009906
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Rude Britannia written by Mina Gorji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon’s obscene outburst on 'I’m a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of complaints – a muted reaction compared to the furore following his use of the f-word on television twenty-eight years earlier. This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media – journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics – and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon. Tightly edited with clear accessibly written pieces, the essays look at rudeness in: the media literature football chants street culture seaside postcards. With contributions from media figures including Tom Paulin and leading media-friendly linguists Deborah Cameron and Lynda Mugglestone, Rude Britannia raises concerns about linguistic and social codes, standards of decency, what is considered taboo in the public realm, constructions of bawdy, class, race, power and British identity.
Author : Lawrence Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351959174
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book An Affluent Society? written by Lawrence Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite the recognition that Britain had moved away from an era of rationing and scarcity, to a new age of choice and plenty, there was simultaneously a parallel feeling that the nation was in decline and being economically outstripped by its international competitors. Whilst the study of Britain's postwar history is a well-trodden path, and the paradox of absolute growth versus relative decline much debated, it is here approached in a fresh and rewarding way. Rather than highlighting economic and industrial 'decline', this volume emphasizes the tremendous impact of rising affluence and consumerism on British society. It explores various expressions of affluence: new consumer goods; shifting social and cultural values; changes in popular expectations of policy; shifting popular political behaviour; changing attitudes of politicians towards the electorate; and the representation of affluence in popular culture and advertising. By focusing on the widespread cultural consequences of increasing levels of consumerism, emphasizing growth over decline and recognizing the rising standards of living enjoyed by most Britons, a new and intriguing window is opened on the complexities of this 'golden age'. Contrasting growing consumer expectations and demands against the anxieties of politicians and economists, this book offers all students of the period a new perspective from which to view post-imperial Britain and to question many conventional historical assumptions.
Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1879998238
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)
Download or read book The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 2 written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of Biblical Law to communion and community, the sociology of the Sabbath, the family and inheritance, and much more are covered in the second volume. The purpose of this second volume is to point men to God and His Word for the government of their lives and our world. To serve and magnify God is the greatest of privileges and callings, as is the reconstruction of all things in terms of the Word of God. This, after all, is the purpose of life, to be conformed to God. Contains an appendix by Herbert Titus.
Author : Joan H Pittock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349212725
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Interpretation And Cultural History written by Joan H Pittock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-05-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Bynum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525176
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)
Download or read book William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World written by William F. Bynum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1879998416
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Noble Savages written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This $57 billion dollar industry is swallowing peoples worldwide as its revenues exceed that of professional football, baseball, and basketball combined. Statistics reveal that upwards of 40 million American adults regularly visit over 372 million published pornographic web pages. How did we get here? In the "free love" decade of the 1960s, the New Left refashioned pornography into a new image - the symbol of moral freedom. What was once sold "under the counter" as filth was now celebrated as the literary symbol of liberation from God and His law-word. This refashioning was nothing new. It was but an echo of the liberation theology of the Marquis de Sade, the 19th century pervert de France (1740-1814). In 1974, R. J. Rushdoony, wrote, "[T]his new pornography, first conceived by Sade - will not be eliminated by moral indignation or by legislation." Rushdoony recognized that the roots of pornography in modern culture are essentially religious and must be combated religiously. In this powerful book Noble Savages (formerly The Politics of Pornography) Rushdoony demonstrates that in order for modern man to justify his perversion he must reject the Biblical doctrine of the fall of man. If there is no fall, the Marquis de Sade argued, then all that man does is normative. Rushdoony concluded, "[T]he world will soon catch up with Sade, unless it abandons its humanistic foundations." In his conclusion Rushdoony wrote, "Symptoms are important and sometimes very serious, but it is very wrong and dangerous to treat symptoms rather than the underlying disease. Pornography is a symptom; it is not the problem." What is the problem? It's the philosophy behind pornography - the rejection of the fall of man that makes normative all that man does. Learn it all in this timeless classic. Originally title Politics of Pornography
Author : Barry J. Faulk
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821441396
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Music Hall and Modernity written by Barry J. Faulk and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of “the people.” In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Archer and Max Beerbohm, and late-Victorian controversies over philanthropy and moral reform, scholar Barry Faulk argues that discourse on music-hall entertainment helped consolidate the identity and tastes of an emergent professional class. Critics and writers legitimized and cleaned up the music hall, at the same time allowing issues of class, respect, and empowerment to be negotiated. Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the new middle-class, middlebrow mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes to a body of scholarship on nineteenth-century urbanism. The book will also interest scholars concerned with the emergence of a professional managerial class and the genealogy of cultural studies.
