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Book Synopsis British Railway Enthusiasm by : Ian Carter
Download or read book British Railway Enthusiasm written by Ian Carter and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the postwar train-spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways. For many in this cohort, train spotting ignited a lifetime's interest. British Railway Enthusiasm traces this postwar cohort and those who followed, as they moved through the life cycle. As the years turned these people invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm--train spotting, railway modeling, collecting railway relics--and then, in response to widespread grief at main line steam traction's death, Britain's now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.
Book Synopsis Reading and Writing by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book Reading and Writing written by V. S. Naipaul and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English novels he read. In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose. Naipaul's profound reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentiethÑa task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema. As a child trying to read, I had felt that two worlds separated me from the books that were offered to me at school and in the libraries: the childhood world of our remembered India, and the more colonial world of our city. ... What I didn't know, even after I had written my early books of fiction ... was that those two spheres of darkness had become my subject. Fiction, working its mysteries, by indirections finding directions out, had led me to my subject. But it couldn't take me all the way. -V.S. Naipaul, from Reading & Writing
Book Synopsis Implementing the Lexical Approach by : Michael Lewis
Download or read book Implementing the Lexical Approach written by Michael Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Relocating Britishness by : Stephen Caunce
Download or read book Relocating Britishness written by Stephen Caunce and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a range of original perspectives on how Britishness might be constructed at the turn of the millennium and where it might be going, this volume pulls together various disciplines and a variety of geographical perspectives to offer a distinctive set of views for the understanding of Britishness and how it is expressed.
Book Synopsis Horseracing and the British, 1919-39 by : Mike Huggins
Download or read book Horseracing and the British, 1919-39 written by Mike Huggins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and an exploration of the cultural world of racing during the inter-war years. the supposedly respectable middle classes, and gave some working-class groups hope and consolation during economically difficult times. Regular attendance and increased spending on betting were found across class and generation and women too were keen participants. Enjoyed by the Royal Family and controlled by the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, racing's visible emphasis on rank and status helped defend hierarchy and gentlemanly amateurism and provided support for more conservative British attitudes. The mass media provided a cumulative cultural validation of racing, helping define national and regional identity and encouraging the affluent consumption of sporting experience and frank enjoyment of betting. exploration of the internal culture of racing itself: the racecourse and course life, trainers and jockeys, owners and breeders. be of value for undergraduate courses on the history of modern British society, sport and cultural studies and should be welcomed by racing enthusiasts everywhere.
Book Synopsis Railways and Culture in Britain by : Ian Carter
Download or read book Railways and Culture in Britain written by Ian Carter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
Book Synopsis Leisure, Citizenship and Working-class Men in Britain, 1850-1945 by : Brad Beaven
Download or read book Leisure, Citizenship and Working-class Men in Britain, 1850-1945 written by Brad Beaven and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that 'good' leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Amateur Operatics by : John Lowerson
Download or read book Amateur Operatics written by John Lowerson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although occasionally dismissed as 'middle-class and middle-brow', amateur operatics has often crossed these boundaries and its repertoire included a fascinating mixture of experiment and conservatism. Today, amateur operatics remain a significant feature of public entertainment despite the competition from other media." "This major new study examines this fascinating outlet for the expression of popular taste, and will be of use to those working in the field of popular culture in Britain, as well as today's amateur operatics enthusiasts."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 by : Paul Maloney
Download or read book Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914 written by Paul Maloney and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment. The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world.
Book Synopsis From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen by : Stuart Hanson
Download or read book From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen written by Stuart Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumière Brothers' showing of their Cinématographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema.
Download or read book Looking North written by Dave Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, television, feature film, music and sport, this book assesses the portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of Englishness. The relationship between these cultural forms and the construction of regional identity has received only limited consideration and this fascinating work provides not only much new information, but also a map for future writers. The North, although seen ultimately as other and the subject of much critical comment, is also shown here as capable of stimulating the creative imagination and invigorating English culture in sometimes surprising ways.
Book Synopsis The British Seaside by : John K. Walton
Download or read book The British Seaside written by John K. Walton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed academic cultural study looks at the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. John K. Walton offers a broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts, looking at who went, where they went, what they did, and how they were entertained.
Book Synopsis Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918 by : Andrew Horrall
Download or read book Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918 written by Andrew Horrall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides an important case study on the crisis that afflicted social democracy, highlighting Labour's left-right divide and the possibility of a realignment of British politics. This study will be invaluable to anyone interested in the turbulent and transitional nature of British politics during a watershed period.
Book Synopsis Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000 by : Matthew Hilton
Download or read book Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000 written by Matthew Hilton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early 19th century to the present day. It explores the culture of the pipe and the cigar in the 19th century, the role of the cigarette in the mass market economy of the early 20th century, and the politics of smoking and health since the 1950s. Combining a wide range of historical sources with examples drawn from film and popular literature, it provides a comprehensive social, cultural, and economic history of smoking.
Book Synopsis James Joyce's Dubliners by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book James Joyce's Dubliners written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected critical interpretations of Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment..
Book Synopsis She Stole My Heart by : Oviin Press House
Download or read book She Stole My Heart written by Oviin Press House and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: journal about valentine's day notes Gag Notebook sure to give a good laugh to you or a spouse, partner, girlfriend or boyfriend on birthdays, anniversaries, valentines, Christmas, Mothers, Fathers day or any other gift giving occasion.love for ever journal here is a blank space at the beginning of the notebook to leave a special message.If giving to family, friends or colleagues this Notebook wide ruled lined pages (120) for using as a journal, to take notes, for creative writing or journaling or just to vent their frustrations.If giving to your partner it could also be used as a private notebook for writing love letters, romantic (or naughty) ideas, future plans, thoughts and comments to each other.
Book Synopsis She Stole My Heart and I'm Keeping It by : Oviin Press House
Download or read book She Stole My Heart and I'm Keeping It written by Oviin Press House and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: journal about valentine's day notes Gag Notebook sure to give a good laugh to you or a spouse, partner, girlfriend or boyfriend on birthdays, anniversaries, valentines, Christmas, Mothers, Fathers day or any other gift giving occasion.love for ever journal here is a blank space at the beginning of the notebook to leave a special message.If giving to family, friends or colleagues this Notebook wide ruled lined pages (120) for using as a journal, to take notes, for creative writing or journaling or just to vent their frustrations.If giving to your partner it could also be used as a private notebook for writing love letters, romantic (or naughty) ideas, future plans, thoughts and comments to each other.
