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Author : John Hollingshead
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Lifetime written by John Hollingshead and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George R. Sims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book My Life written by George R. Sims and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294028
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Reflecting the Audience written by Jim Davis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies: the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century British theatre audiences. In an attempt to bring some order to the enormous amount of available primary material, Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow focus on London from 1840, immediately prior to the deregulation of that city's theatres, to 1880, when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed responsibility for their licensing. In a further attempt to manage their material, they concentrate chapter by chapter on seven representative theatres from four areas: the Surrey Theatre and the Royal Victoria to the south, the Whitechapel Pavilion and the Britannia Theatre to the east, Sadler's Wells and the Queen's (later the Prince of Wales's) to the north, and Drury Lane to the west. Davis and Emeljanow thoroughly examine the composition of these theatres' audiences, their behavior, and their attendance patterns by looking at topography, social demography, police reports, playbills, autobiographies and diaries, newspaper accounts, economic and social factors as seen in census returns, maps and transportation data, and the managerial policies of each theatre.
Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195041X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words written by Catherine Waters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.
Author : Andrew Gasson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040245145
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 1 written by Andrew Gasson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.
Author : Edward Verrall Lucas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book 1818-1834 written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jenny Bourne Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827332
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins written by Jenny Bourne Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319624199
Total Pages : 1977 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Author : George Rowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521346252
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Old Vic Theatre written by George Rowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home of opera in English, as well as British ballet. Above all it was the birthplace of the world-famous Old Vic Company and saw the first appearances of Britain's National Theatre Company, directed by Laurence Olivier. Among the actors to perform at the Old Vic were John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The book contains numerous illustrations from the early years of the Theatre and of important productions. It includes a.
Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466863471
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Londoners, the years 1840 to 1870 were years of dramatic change and achievement. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, London was ripped apart to build railway lines and stations and life-saving sewers. The Thames was contained by embankments, and traffic congestion was eased by the first underground railway in the world. A start was made on providing housing for the "deserving poor." There were significant advances in medicine, and the Ragged Schools are perhaps the least known of Victorian achievements, in those last decades before universal state education. In 1851 the Great Exhibition managed to astonish almost everyone, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. But there was also appalling poverty and exploitation, exposed by Henry Mayhew and others. For the laboring classes, pay was pitifully low, the hours long, and job security nonexistent. Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life in Victorian London. She takes us into schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries. Many practical innovations of the time—flushing lavatories, underground railways, umbrellas, letter boxes, driving on the left—point the way forward. But this was also, at least until the 1850s, a city of cholera outbreaks, transportation to Australia, public executions, and the workhouse, where children could be sold by their parents for as little as £12 and streetpeddlers sold sparrows for a penny, tied by the leg for children to play with. Cruelty and hypocrisy flourished alongside invention, industry, and philanthropy.
Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755154290
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography written by Hesketh Pearson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities – and their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rohan McWilliam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192556401
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book London's West End written by Rohan McWilliam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry. The area from the Strand to Oxford Street came to stand for sensation and vulgarity but also the promotion of high culture. The West End produced shows and fashions whose impact rippled outwards around the globe. During the nineteenth century, an area that serviced the needs of the aristocracy was opened up to a wider public whilst retaining the imprint of luxury and prestige. Rohan McWilliam tells the story of the great artists, actors and entrepreneurs who made the West End: figures such as Gilbert and Sullivan, the playwright Dion Boucicault, the music hall artiste Jenny Hill, and the American Harry Gordon Selfridge who wanted to create the best shop in the world. At the same time, McWilliam explores the distinctive spaces created in the West End, from the glamour of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through to low life bars and taverns. We encounter the origins of the modern star system and celebrity culture. London's West End, 1800-1914 moves from the creation of Regent Street to the glory days of the Edwardian period when the West End was the heart of empire and the entertainment industry. Much of modern culture and consumer society was shaped by a relatively small area in the middle of London. This pioneering study establishes why that was.
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446477118
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book London In The Nineteenth Century written by Jerry White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
Author : Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674807310
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Shows of London written by Richard Daniel Altick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
Author : Lewis Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray written by Lewis Melville and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Seville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461001
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Internationalisation of Copyright Law written by Catherine Seville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological developments have shaped copyright law's development, and now the prospect of endless, effortless digital copying poses a significant challenge to modern copyright law. Many complain that copyright protection has burgeoned wildly, far beyond its original boundaries. Some have questioned whether copyright can survive the digital age. From a historical perspective, however, many of these 'new' challenges are simply fresh presentations of familiar dilemmas. This book explores the history of international copyright law, and looks at how this history is relevant today. It focuses on international copyright during the nineteenth century, as it affected Europe, the British colonies (particularly Canada), America, and the UK. As we consider the reform of modern copyright law, nineteenth-century experiences offer highly relevant empirical evidence. Copyright law has proved itself robust and flexible over several centuries. If directed with vision, Seville argues, it can negotiate cyberspace.
