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Author : D. S. Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848825867
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 written by D. S. Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1980 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848825867
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Rider Haggard
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814736319
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Diary of an African Journey written by H. Rider Haggard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, Haggard, the author of colonialist novels King Solomon's Mines and She returned to a South Africa which had greatly changed since the first visits of his youth. This account of his journey as a member of the British Empire's Dominions Royal Commission offers observations on the changed nature of the country after the Anglo-Boer wars and details a number of aspects of the political landscape, including a description of his interview with the founder of the African National Congress, John Dube. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253320728
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Annotated She written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it appeared in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She caused a sensation and became one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. The idea of a powerful woman endowed with immortal beauty and penetrating intellect ruling a savage people among the ruins of a vanished civilization in the heart of Africa captivated Victorian readers. Freud recommended the book to his patients. Jung equated its imaginative power with Dante's Inferno and Wagner's Ring. Continuing to fascinate later twentieth-century readers, the book has never been out of print and has won new audiences through numerous film versions. This is the first annotated edition of She. Locating the novel within the context of late-Victorian fiction and British imperialism, Norman Etherington provides biographical information regarding Haggard and elucidates references in the text of this archaeological romance.
Author : J. F. Bosher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450059635
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Imperial Vancouver Island written by J. F. Bosher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Simon Magus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470247
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult written by Simon Magus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult, Simon Magus explores the occult world of H. Rider Haggard through an analysis of his literary engagement with ancient Egypt, Romanticism and Theosophy.
Author : Wendy Roberta Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521131131
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire written by Wendy Roberta Katz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: imperial history and politics, as well as to readers of Haggard. --Book Jacket.
Author : Nicola Bown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521810159
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Ralph Pite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129218
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2 written by Ralph Pite and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.
Author : Bernard Botes Krüger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483689271
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)
Download or read book FOREIGN VOICES written by Bernard Botes Krüger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today's fiction is increasingly populated by multilingual urban societies in all their rich cultural variety," contends Bernard Botes Krüger, making a persuasive case that "readers need to 'hear' authentic sounding dialogue from the mouths of foreign-language characters-something which mere translations into standard English can never adequately accomplish." The concept of foreign-language dialogue in fiction is not new; many accomplished authors of the past have used a variety of subtle techniques to help their readers understand instances of 'foreign' dialogue. However, those techinues have never been thoroughly isolated and examined-until now. Using Britain's 'Colonial Era' literature as a starting point in this work, the author discusses and systematically catagorizes every type of 'device' used in the past, assembling in the process a veritible toolbox of techniques which aspiring writers can implement to enrich their multilingual dialogue.
Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089643621
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Audiences written by Ian Christie and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.
Author : Stephen Constantine
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152616292X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Emigrants and empire written by Stephen Constantine and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Drummond's two pioneering studies, British Economic Policy and the Empire 1919-1939, 1972, and Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939, 1974, helped to revive interest in Empire migration and other aspects of inter-war imperial economic history. This book concentrates upon the attempts to promote state-assisted migration in the post-First World War period particularly associated with the Empire Settlement Act of 1922. It examines the background to these new emigration experiments, the development of plans for both individual and family migration, as well as the specific schemes for the settlement of ex-servicemen and of women. Varying degrees of encouragement, acquiescence and resistance with which they were received in the dominions, are discussed. After the First World War there was a striking reorientation of state policy on emigration from the United Kingdom. A state-assisted emigration scheme for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen, operating from 1919 to 1922, was followed by an Empire Settlement Act, passed in 1922. This made significant British state funding available for assisted emigration and overseas land settlement in British Empire countries. Foremost amongst the achievements of the high-minded imperial projects was the free-passage scheme for ex-servicemen and women which operated between 1919 and 1922 under the auspices of the Oversea Settlement Committee. Cheap passages were considered as one of the prime factors in stimulating the flow of migration, particularly in the case of single women. The research represented here makes a significant contribution to the social histories of these states as well as of the United Kingdom.
Author : J. Jeffrey Franklin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457351
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Lotus and the Lion written by J. Jeffrey Franklin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia. As a result, Victorian and Edwardian England witnessed the emergence of comparative religious scholarship with a focus on Buddhism, the appearance of Buddhist characters and concepts in literary works, the publication of hundreds of articles on Buddhism in popular and intellectual periodicals, and the dawning of syncretic religions that incorporated elements derived from Buddhism. In this fascinating book, Franklin analyzes responses to and constructions of Buddhism by popular novelists and poets, early scholars of religion, inventors of new religions, social theorists and philosophers, and a host of social and religious commentators. Examining the work of figures ranging from Rudyard Kipling and D. H. Lawrence to H. P. Blavatsky, Thomas Henry Huxley, and F. Max Müller, Franklin provides insight into cultural upheavals that continue to reverberate into our own time. Those include the violent intermixing of cultures brought about by imperialism and colonial occupation, the trauma and self-reflection that occur when a Christian culture comes face-to-face with another religion, and the debate between spiritualism and materialism. The Lotus and the Lion demonstrates that the nineteenth-century encounter with Buddhism subtly but profoundly changed Western civilization forever.
Author : Martin Johnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474255396
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Christmas and the British: A Modern History written by Martin Johnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern Christmas was made by the Victorians and rooted in their belief in commerce, family and religion. Their rituals and traditions persist to the present day but the festival has also been changed by growing affluence, shifting family structures, greater expectations of happiness and material comfort, technological developments and falling religious belief. Christmas became a battleground for arguments over consumerism, holiday entitlements, social obligations, communal behaviour and the influence of church, state and media. Even in private, it encouraged reflection on social change and the march of time. Amongst those unhappy at the state of the world or their own lives, Christmas could induce much cynicism and even loathing but for a quieter majority it was a happy time, a moment of a joy in a sometimes difficult world that made the festival more than just an integral feature of the calendar: Christmas was one of British culture's emotional high points. Moreover, it was also a testimony to the enduring importance of family, shared values and a common culture in the UK. Martin Johnes shows how Christmas and its traditions have been lived, adapted and thought about in Britain since 1914. Christmas and the British is about the festival's social, cultural and economic functions, and its often forgotten status as both the most unusual and important day of the year
Author : G.C. Webber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317388615
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-1939 written by G.C. Webber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, examines the activities and beliefs of right-wing Conservatives and overt Fascists in inter-war Britain. It analyses the role that ideology played in the various struggles between leaders and dissidents within the Conservative Party, traces the development of central themes in right-wing thought and seeks to show how the complexity of these beliefs established ideological barriers to the growth of Fascism in Britain which, it is argued, was heavily reliant upon the support of disillusioned Conservatives for its limited success. In this way the book contributes to our understanding of both the Conservative Party and the British Fascist movement between the wars, and in doing so helps to establish an overview of right-wing politics in Britain since the turn of the century. It also contains an appendix of information on lesser-known individuals and organisations on the Right.
Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191663573
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Weeping Britannia written by Thomas Dixon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. For instance, the book also investigates the histories of painting, literature, theatre, music and the cinema to discover how and why people have been moved to tears by the arts, from the sentimental paintings and novels of the eighteenth century and the romantic music of the nineteenth, to Hollywood weepies, expressionist art, and pop music in the twentieth century. Weeping Britannia is simultaneously a museum of tears and a philosophical handbook, using history to shed new light on the changing nature of Britishness over time, as well as the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives. The story that emerges is one in which a previously rich religious and cultural history of producing and interpreting tears was almost completely erased by the rise of a stoical and repressed British empire in the late nineteenth century. Those forgotten philosophies of tears and feeling can now be rediscovered. In the process, readers might perhaps come to view their own tears in a different light, as something more than mere emotional incontinence.
