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Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book 1911-1921 written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga R. R. Broomfield
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arnold Bennett written by Olga R. R. Broomfield and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782437363
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Our History of the 20th Century written by Travis Elborough and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Travis Elborough's expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century.
Author : Adrian Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135206228
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book 'New Statesman' written by Adrian Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party. The author compares its first journalists with later generations of editors and writers and rediscovers the early, and lasting, importance of the British Left's best-known magazine.
Author : Jonathan Wild
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474419534
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Literature of the 1900s written by Jonathan Wild and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernismIn this ground-breaking study, Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as a vibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the stifling influence of preceding Victorianism. In the hands of this generation, which included writers such as Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Beatrix Potter, and H.G. Wells, the new century presented a unique opportunity to fashion innovative books for fresh audiences. Wild traces this literary innovation by conceptualising the focal points of his study as branches of one of the new department stores that epitomized Edwardian modernity.a These adepartments war and imperialism, the rise of the lower middle class, childrens literature, technology and decadence, and the condition of England offer both discrete and interconnected ways in which to understand the distinctiveness and importance of the Edwardian literary scene. Overall, The Great Edwardian Emporium offers a long-overdue investigation into a decade of literature that provided the cultural foundation for the coming century.
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141962232
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Year written by Mark Bostridge and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of their teachers, and celebrity aviators thrilling spectators by looping the loop. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in the making sets out on a midsummer railway journey that will result in the creation of a poem that remains loved and widely known to this day. With the coming of war, England is beset by rumour and foreboding. There is hysteria about German spies, fears of invasion, while patriotic women hand out white feathers to men who have failed to rush to their country's defence. In the book's final pages, a bomb falls from the air onto British soil for the first time, and people live in expectation of air raids. As 1914 fades out, England is preparing itself for the prospect of a war of long duration. Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR NonFiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose; and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend, which was named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008 and awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. The Fateful Year was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015.
Author : Norman Emery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) written by Norman Emery and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Farr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135776601
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Reginald McKenna written by Martin Farr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this major statesmen and financier partly through the natural advance of historical research, and partly by the discoveries of missing archival material. McKenna's role is now illuminated by his own reflections, and by the correspondence of friends and colleagues, including Asquith, Churchill, Keynes, Baldwin, Bonar Law, MacDonald, and Chamberlain. McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold.
Author : John Horne
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107913
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book German Atrocities, 1914 written by John Horne and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.
Author : Richard J. Finneran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113347
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Yeats written by Richard J. Finneran and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent volume of this distinguished annual
Author : Danny Laurie-Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030038521
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book British Invasion and Spy Literature, 1871–1918 written by Danny Laurie-Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion literature, and to a lesser extent detective literature, up to the end of World War I, Danny Laurie-Fletcher utilises fiction as a window into the mind-set of British society. There is a focus on the political arguments embedded within the texts, which mirrored debates in wider British society that took place before and during World War I – debates about military conscription, immigration, spy scares, the fear of British imperial decline, and the rise of Germany. These debates and topics are examined to show what influence they had on the creation of the intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, and how foreigners were perceived in society.
Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351856405
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Landscapes and Voices of the Great War written by Angela K. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins of popular understanding of the war. The landscape of the western front was captured during the conflict in many different ways: in photographs, paintings and print. The most commonly replicated voicing of contemporary attitudes towards the war is that of initial enthusiasm giving way to disillusionment and a sense of overwhelming futility. Investigations of the many components of war experience drawn from social and cultural history have looked to landscapes and voices beyond the frontline as a means of foregrounding different perspectives on the war. Not all of the voices presented here opposed the war, and not all of the landscapes were comprised of trenches or flanked by barbed wire. Collectively, they combine to offer further fresh insights into the multiplicity of war experience, an alternate space to the familiar tropes of mud and mayhem.
Author : Jonathan Walker
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752478834
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Blue Beast written by Jonathan Walker and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' The Blue Beast'—Edwardian slang for sexual passion—is the true account of the intimate lives of three extraordinary Edwardian women. Drawing on private family archives and highly revealing letters and diaries, the story examines how they became mistresses or confidantes of some of the most powerful men in Britain, men who profoundly affected the Empire's efforts in the First World War. The wealthy and voluptuous American adventuress, Emilie Grigsby, claimed she was the 'mascot of High Command' – and not without good reason. She courted the press baron Lord Northcliffe, the philandering Quartermaster-General, Sir John Cowans and The Times military correspondent, Colonel Charles Repington, all of whom fell under her spell. It was manipulation on an ambitious scale, although eventually her schemes unravelled. Meanwhile, the sensuous and statuesque Winifred 'Wendy' Bennett launched into a passionate affair with the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir John French. ' The 'Blue Beast' uncovers how they conducted their relationship, whilst French wrestled with crisis after crisis to keep command of a vast army on the Western Front. Finally, the strong-willed and aristocratic Hon. Sylvia Henley replaced her sister Venetia Stanley as the close confidante of Prime Minister Asquith. It brought her great influence; but it was no compensation for the personal heartache that followed. Taking the reader on a journey into London's High Society during the glittering Edwardian era and the tumult of the Great War, Jonathan Walker uncovers a story of power, passion and betrayal.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674387935
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Henry James, Selected Letters written by Henry James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers letters James wrote to his friends, family, and fellow writers in the U.S., Europe, and England.
Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898709423
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Old Thunder written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With access to previously unpublished material in the form of Hilaire Belloc's letters and photographs, Pearce's major new biography uncovers a romantic, complex, and solitary character. Illustrations.
Author : Tim Bergfelder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717383
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Titanic in Myth and Memory written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its maiden voyage and sinking in April 1912, Titanic has become a monumental icon of the 20th century and has inspired a wealth of interpretations across literature, art and media. This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the connections and differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached and used the tragedy. In the final section is an in-depth study of James Cameron's blockbuster film "Titanic".
Author : Kerry Sutherland
Publisher : Kerry Sutherland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book An Eye for Genius written by Kerry Sutherland and published by Kerry Sutherland. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature. Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along with James’s self-defeating practice of shifting from publisher to publisher, rather than adhering to the trade courtesy of remaining loyal to one house, were making the author’s efforts to keep his work in print increasingly difficult; bringing Pinker, who managed the literary business of over 100 authors including Stephen Crane, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London, into the picture made it possible for James to maintain a presence before the reading public to an extent that would have been impossible without the agent’s assistance. Pinker’s involvement was vital to the continuance of James’s career, as his later works and the New York Edition proved difficult material to place. The agent’s role as the mediator of conflict between the commercial writer and literary artist, positions that James had difficulty reconciling, had considerable influence on the shape of James’s later career and thus the way in which the author is remembered; James’s legacy is therefore clearly tied to Pinker’s efforts. Using correspondence between Pinker, James, and the primary publishers of James’s material from 1898 until Pinker’s death in 1922, along with secondary works addressing the agent’s endeavors during this period, this volume demonstrates the link between Pinker’s work and James’s continued presence in print, both during the author’s lifetime and after his death.
