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Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445658860
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Strange Victoriana written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445666316
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Victorian Murders written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466579
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Doctor Poison written by Jan Bondeson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981865
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Ripper of Waterloo Road written by Jan Bondeson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously 'ripped'. The client was nowhere to be seen. The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza's death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of 'penny dreadfuls' and urban legend. Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.
Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Monkeybrain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana written by Jess Nevins and published by Monkeybrain. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. From detective fiction to historical novels, from well-known authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to Russian newspaper serials and Chinese martial arts novels, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA is a truly exhaustive look at every aspect of fantastic literature in the days of Queen Victoria. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will be surprised to find here the roots of genres thought to be strictly contemporary, and students of literature will be amazed at the breadth and scope of writings produced in the Victoriana era. This is an invaluable reference, and truly one-of-a-kind.
Author : Alison Littlewood
Publisher : Arcadia
ISBN 13 : 1848669895
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)
Download or read book The Crow Garden written by Alison Littlewood and published by Arcadia. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller. Mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered . . . ? Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds. Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Adelina - Vita - Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Vita, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results. Vita starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism . . . and a desperate need to escape. Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of séances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Vita and save her. But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind . . . '[An] enjoyable excursion . . . gripping' The Sunday Times
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144567629X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.
Author : Essie Fox
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1914585542
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)
Download or read book The Fascination written by Essie Fox and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions... Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as 'Captain'. Theo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities ... particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mother's death in childbirth, when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced, Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name. Unable to train to be a doctor as he'd hoped, Theo finds employment in Dr Summerwell's Museum of Anatomy in London, and here he meets Captain and his theatrical 'family' of performers, freaks and outcasts. But it is Theo's fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of dark deceits, exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know... Exploring universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption and what it means to be unique, The Fascination is an evocative, glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London and darkness and deception that lies beneath...
Author : Cora Kaplan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628185
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism written by Cora Kaplan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian. In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of Victorians from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies. She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage, as well as inspiring imitation and high art, and why Henry James has become fiction's favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium? Victorians, the book argues, has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Through the constant interrogation of history in such innovative works as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, A.S. Byatt's Possession, David Lodge's Nice Work, Peter Ackroyd's Dickens, Jane Campion's The Piano, Colm Toibin's The Master, Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes's Arthur and George, 'Victoriana' maps out a very particular postmodern temporality.
Author : Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800467044
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Amazed! written by Mark Roland Langdale and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a very usual day, on a very usual school trip to Hampton Court Maze, there is a very unusually named girl called Victoriana Elizabeth Alice Royal. At least she can concentrate on history today and learn new facts as she wanders the maze. But little does Victoriana know that history will come alive for her in a way it never has before...
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446915X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Black Neo-Victoriana written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.
Author : John Bliss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527520390
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Racialization of the Occult in Nineteenth Century British Literature written by John Bliss and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the representation of the practitioner of the occult in mid to late nineteenth-century British literature. The occult was a source of emotional support and scientific curiosity during this time of change and uncertainty because it seemed to offer answers to both spiritual and scientific questions through measurable, albeit unconventional, means. However, the occult was also viewed as a threat to British society, an assault on it values, and a fundamental danger to emerging scientific enterprise. By examining the ways in which the occult and its practitioners are represented in British novels from 1850-1900, this book traces the ways that the novels commented on, participated in, and contributed to the racialization of the occult that occurred throughout the nineteenth century in Britain. The representations of the occult characters in these novels interpreted and transmitted the social, political, economic, and scientific discourses about race in the nineteenth century to the reading public, as well as participating in the discourse surrounding race and the occult.
Author : Michael Drewett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754665212
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Peter Gabriel, from Genesis to Growing Up written by Michael Drewett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Peter Gabriel fronted progressive rock band Genesis, journalists and academics alike have noted the importance of Gabriel's contribution to popular music. Gabriel secured his place in the annals of popular music history through his groundbreaking performances, the establishment of WOMAD and the Real World record label and for his political agenda. This collection documents and critically explores the most central themes found in Gabriel's work.
Author : Michael Barry
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1909396443
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Dublin's Strangest Tales written by Michael Barry and published by Portico. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dublin. Though this isn’t the usual side of the city the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Dublin, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the city’s bizarre history – past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to one of Ireland’s most beautiful, and popular, cities. Located on the beautiful eastern seaboard, Dublin is a city with more strangeness than you can shake a pint of Guinness at. Home to one million people, the name, strangely, comes from the Irish ‘Dubh Linn’, which means 'Black Pool', but that name was already taken. Dublin’s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to some of the city’s best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.
Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
ISBN 13 : 9780988192522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author : Diana Wallace
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160314
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Female Gothic Histories written by Diana Wallace and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century. Often left out of traditional historical narratives, women writers have turned to Gothic historical fiction as a mode of writing which can both reinsert them into history and symbolise their exclusion. This study breaks new ground in bringing together thinking about the Gothic and the historical novel, and in combining psychoanalytic theory with historical contextualisation.
Author : Guy Barefoot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474290361
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Gaslight Melodrama written by Guy Barefoot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Hangover Square. It also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama in Victorian or Edwardian settings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, 19th century discussions of gas lighting in street, home and theatre, and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema.
