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Author : Noel Pemberton Billing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Verbatim Report of the Trial of Noel Pemberton Billing, M.P. written by Noel Pemberton Billing and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natasha Alden
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526102617
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Reading behind the lines written by Natasha Alden and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, and applies it for the first time to novels by contemporary British writers. Focusing on war fiction, Alden builds upon current scholarship on historical fiction and memory studies, and extends the field by exploring how the use of historical research within fiction illuminates the ways in which we remember and recreate the past. Using postmemory to unlock both the transgenerational aspects of the novels discussed and the development of historiographic metafiction, Alden provides a ground-breaking analysis of the nature and potential of contemporary historical fiction. By examining the patterns and motivations behind authors’ translations of material from the historical record into fiction, Alden also asks to what extent such writing is, necessarily, metafictional. Ultimately, this study offers an updated answer to the question that historical fiction has always posed: what can fiction do with history that history cannot?
Author : Jodie Medd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021634
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism written by Jodie Medd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the legal, social and literary impact of lesbian scandal on early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture.
Author : Laura Lee
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445662590
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Oscar's Ghost written by Laura Lee and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's death
Author : Leslie J. Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351125885
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Sexuality and Identity written by Leslie J. Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the late nineteenth century, sexuality is a relatively new category within the human sciences in general and law and society scholarship in particular. Despite its novelty, it is now a central category through which we understand ourselves both as individuals and as members of communities. This volume offers a collection of essays selected to reflect the ever-widening horizons and diverse methodologies of law and society scholarship on sexual and identity in law. The essays offer an insight into some of the key themes and recent developments in this body of work. Each in different ways offers an evaluation of the nature, meaning and effects of sexuality thereby providing a critical evaluation of the politics of sexual identity as it appears in and through the law.
Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727632
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Last Stand written by Philip Hoare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called “a shocking tale of heroes and villains—illuminating and upsetting in equal measure.” The first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in London spearheaded by Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values. Billing attacked Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the “Cult of the Clitoris,” a feminine version of the “Cult of the Wilde,” a catchall for the degeneracy and perversion he was convinced had infected the land. He claimed that a black book was in the hands of their enemies the Germans, a book that contained the names of thousands of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the cult. Threat of exposure was costing England the war. Allan sued Billing for libel, and the ensuing trial, brought to life in this authoritative, spellbinding book, held the world in thrall. Was there or was there not a black book? What names did it contain? The trial was both hugely entertaining and deadly serious and raised specters of hysteria, homophobia, and paranoia that, like Oscar Wilde himself, continue to haunt us. As in Wilde’s own trial in 1895, libel was hardly the issue; the fight was for control over the country’s moral compass. In Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand, biographer and historian Philip Hoare gives us the full drama of the Billing trial, gavel to gavel, and brings to life this unique, bizarre, and fascinating event. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Eleanor Fitzsimons
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468313266
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Wilde's Women written by Eleanor Fitzsimons and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively debut biography of the flamboyant Irish writer . . . focusing on the women who loved and supported him” (Kirkus Reviews). In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly, who, like Wilde, loved fast cars, cocaine, and foreign women. Fresh, revealing, and entertaining, full of fascinating detail and anecdotes, Wilde’s Women relates the untold story of how a beloved writer and libertine played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women, and how they supported him in the midst of a Victorian society in the process of changing forever. “Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr . . . provide[s] a potted biography of the multitalented writer and gay icon . . . highly enjoyable.” —The Washington Post “Fitzsimons brilliantly calls attention to the progressive ideas and beliefs which drew the most daring and interesting women of the time to his side. The depth and painstaking care of Fitzsimons’ research is a fitting tribute to Wilde’s fascinating life and exquisite writing—and really, what better compliment is there than that?” —High Voltage
Author : Marie-Andrée Jacob
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786437988
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health written by Marie-Andrée Jacob and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Research Handbook offers significant insights into an understudied subject, bringing together a broad range of socio-legal studies of medicine to help answer complex and interdisciplinary questions about global health – a major challenge of our time.
Author : Lucy Bland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847798950
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Modern women on trial written by Lucy Bland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.
Author : James M. Diehl
Publisher : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The War Generation written by James M. Diehl and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chapter on the United States.
Author : Jennifer Ingleheart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192551604
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Masculine Plural written by Jennifer Ingleheart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools, yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with sexual content. This volume analyses the intimate and uncomfortable nexus between the Classics, sex, and education primarily through the figure of the schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge (1890-1918), whose clandestine writings not only explore homoerotic desires but also offer insightful comments on Classical education. Now a marginalized figure, Bainbrigge's surviving works - a verse drama entitled Achilles in Scyros featuring a cross-dressing Achilles and a Chorus of lesbian schoolgirls, and a Latin dialogue between schoolboys - vividly demonstrate the queer potential of Classics and are marked by a celebration of the pleasures of sex and a refusal to apologize for homoerotic desire. Reprinted here in their entirety, they are accompanied by chapters setting them in their social and literary context, including their parallels with the writings of Bainbrigge's contemporaries and near contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds, E. M. Forster, and A. E. Housman. What emerges is a provocative new perspective on the history of sexuality and the place of the Classics within that history, which demonstrates that a highly queer version of Classics was possible in private contexts.
Author : Cecily Devereux
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771125888
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance written by Cecily Devereux and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of the modern business of erotic dance. Framing Salomania with reference to imperial ideologies of motherhood and race, it works toward better understanding the increasing value of the display of the undressed female body in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This study turns critical attention to cultures of maternity in the late 19th century, primarily with reference to the ways in which women are defined in relation to their genitals as patriarchal property and space and are valued according to reproduction as their primary labour. Erotic dance as it takes shape in the modern representation of Salome insists both that the mother is and is not visible in the body of the dancer, a contradiction this study characterizes as reproductive fetishism. Looking at a range of media, the study traces the modern figure of Salome through visual art, writing, early psychoanalysis and dance, from "hootchie kootch" to the performances dancer Maud Allan called “mimeo-dramatic” to mid-20th-century North American films such as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Charles Lamont's Salome, Where She Danced to the 21st-century HBO series The Sopranos.
Author : Stephen Turton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100900848X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Before the Word Was Queer written by Stephen Turton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together research from queer linguistics and lexicography, this book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries published in Britain from the early modern to the inter-war period. Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general usage, hard words, thieves' cant, and slang to law, medicine, classical myth, women's biography, and etymology – it asks how dictionary-writers made sense of same-sex intimacy, and how they failed or refused to make sense of it. It also queries how readers interacted with dictionaries' constructions of sexual morality, against the broader backdrop of changing legal, religious, and scientific institutions. In answering these questions, the book responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.
Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639378X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Very Queer Family Indeed written by Simon Goldhill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family that wrote itself -- Sensation! -- Wooing mother -- Bringing up the subject -- Fifty ways to say I hate my father -- Tell the truth, my boy -- A map of biographical urges -- To write a life -- Women in love -- Graphomania -- Being queer -- What's in a name? -- Though wholly pure and good -- He never married -- All London is agog -- Carnal affections -- Be a man, my boy -- "It's not unusual . . ." -- The god of our fathers -- It will be worth dying -- The deeper self that can't decide -- Our father -- Secret history -- Writing the history of the church -- Building history -- Forms of worship -- Capturing the Bensons -- Not I
Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183682
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Nights Out written by Judith Walkowitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.
Author : Ralph Edward McCoy
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Freedom of the Press, a Bibliocyclopedia written by Ralph Edward McCoy and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography of publications relating to freedom of the press, freedom of speech, privacy and censorship in the USA for the period from 1967 to 1977 - includes entries concerning the UK, Australia, Canada and other English speaking areas of the world.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770485422
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Salome written by Oscar Wilde and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salome is Oscar Wilde’s most experimental—and controversial—play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as “an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive.” None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde’s creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a confession of desire, a sign of moral decay, a new form of art, and a revolt against the restraints of Victorian society. Less well known than Wilde’s beloved comedies, Salome is as enduringly modern and relevant. This edition uses the English translation done by Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and overseen and corrected by Wilde himself. Appendices detail the play’s sources and provide extensive materials on its contemporary reception and dramatic productions.
