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Author : Diana Sperling
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312551292
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Hurst Dancing and Other Scenes from Regency Life written by Diana Sperling and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Sperling
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780575030350
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Mrs Hurst Dancing, and Other Scenes from Regency Life, 1812-1823 written by Diana Sperling and published by Orion. This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Samson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590174
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music written by Jim Samson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609588
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Late-Life Love: A Memoir written by Susan Gubar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Winning [and] intelligent. . . . [An] impressive, often heartening addition to the literature of aging.” — Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal In this “unique blend of memoir and literary commentary” (Bookpage), acclaimed author and literary scholar Susan Gubar contemplates the beauty and strength of enduring love—both for her husband and for the literature that has shaped her life. Throughout the complications of devoted caregiving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and a stressful move to a more manageable apartment, Gubar proves that love and desire have no expiration date—on the page or in life. Late-Life Love offers a resounding retort to ageist stereotypes, appraises the obstacles unique to senior couples, and celebrates second chances.
Author : Roger Sales
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134838352
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England written by Roger Sales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Regency crisis of 1810-12 * the way in which Austen engaged in topical debates such as healthcare in both Emma and Persuasion.
Author : Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752463810
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Shocking Bodies written by Iwan Rhys Morus and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the eighteenth century opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which electricity could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead. In Shocking Bodies, Iwan Rhys Morus explores how the Victorians thought about electricity, and how they tried to use its intimate and corporeal force to answer fundamental questions about life and death. Some even believed that electricity was life, which brought into question the existence of the soul, and of God, and provided arguments in favour of political radicalism. This is the story of how electricity emerged as a powerful new tool for making sense of our bodies and the world around us.
Author : Michèle Cohen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650691
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England written by Michèle Cohen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in association with BSECS, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies"
Author : Jan Fergus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349216658
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen written by Jan Fergus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life.
Author : Mrs Joan Perkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985649
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England written by Mrs Joan Perkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.
Author : Michel Ciment
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Jane Campion on Jane Campion written by Michel Ciment and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological overview of one of modern cinema’s most celebrated directors, featuring interviews with Jane Campion herself Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema’s greatest contemporary film directors. Through a series of interviews from the early days of Campion’s career to her most recent projects, conducted by Michel Ciment, each chapter contains the study of a film: starting with the short films that Campion made during her studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, then moving through the Academy Award–winning The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke, In the Cut, Bright Star, the TV series Top of the Lake, and ending with her most recent film, the Academy Award–nominated The Power of the Dog. Organized chronologically, film-by-film, the interviews are illustrated with film stills and photographs taken on set, as well as with annotated scripts, storyboards, and personal documents lent by Campion. The book also reproduces three short stories and a text about the poet John Keats written by the director, along with actress Holly Hunter’s “Scattered Memories” of their collaboration on The Piano and Top of the Lake. A detailed bibliography and filmography of the filmmaker complete this volume, which contains more than 300 color and black-and-white illustrations.
Author : A. Rauch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230618030
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book England in 1815 written by A. Rauch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated edition of an American's engaging account of culture and politics in England during a crucial period in British history. This new edition features an extensive introduction, numerous primary-source appendices, and other critical apparatus.
Author : Valerie Dorge
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892365013
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Painted Wood written by Valerie Dorge and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the highest spiritual expressions. This volume, illustrated in color throughout, presents the proceedings of a conference organized by the Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and held in November 1994 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book includes 40 articles that explore the history and conservation of a wide range of painted wooden objects, from polychrome sculpture and altarpieces to carousel horses, tobacconist figures, Native American totems, Victorian garden furniture, French cabinets, architectural elements, and horse-drawn carriages. Contributors include Ian C. Bristow, an architect and historic-building consultant in London; Myriam Serck-Dewaide, head of the Sculpture Workshop, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels; and Frances Gruber Safford, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A broad range of professionals—including art historians, curators, scientists, and conservators—will be interested in this volume and in the multidisciplinary nature of its articles.
Author : G. E. Mingay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852850425
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Land, Labour and Agriculture, 1700-1920 written by G. E. Mingay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges and opportunities offered to British farming by the profound changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries make these years of outstanding interest to the agricultural historian. These original essays are presented to Gordon Mingay, the most distinguished historian of the Agricultural Revolution, and reflect his own interests in three central themes; landownership and landed society; rural labour; and agriculture both as a business and as a way of life.
Author : Ellen Tremper
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925219
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)
Download or read book I'm No Angel written by Ellen Tremper and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why there are so many "dumb blonde" jokes--always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the"flaxen Saxon" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra--about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon--and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing field for women and men had leveled considerably. But how did the fairy-tale blonde, that placid, pliant girl, become the "tomato upstair," as Monroe styled herself in The Seven Year Itch? In I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film, Ellen Tremper shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the changes in real women's lives. As she demonstrates, through these novels and performances, fair hair and its traditional attributes--patience, pliancy, endurance, and innocence--suffered a deliberate alienation, which both reflected and enhanced women's personal and social freedoms essential to the evolution of modernity. From fiction to film, the active, desiring, and sometimes difficult women who disobeyed, manipulated, and thwarted their fellow characters mimicked and furthered women's growing power in the world. The author concludes with an overview of the various roles of the blonde in film from the 1960s to the present and speculates about the possible end of blond dominance. An engaging and lively read, I'm No Angel will appeal to a general audience interested in literary and cinematic representations of the blonde, as well as to scholars in Victorian, women's, and film studies.
Author : Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319911015
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition written by Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy tale’s most iconic images are items of dress: the glass slippers, the red capes, the gowns shining like the sun, and the red shoes. The material cultures from which these items have been conjured reveal the histories of patronage, political intrigue, class privilege, and sexual politics behind the most famous fairy tales. The book not only reveals the sartorial truths behind Cinderella’s lost slippers, but reveals the networks of female power woven into fairy tale itself.
Author : Ellen Gill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271094
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, 1740-1820 written by Ellen Gill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides deep insights into the roles and responsibilities of men, women and children within naval families.
Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521426800
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book After Nature written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when advances in reproductive technologies are raising questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.
