The Merry Order of St. Bridget: Personal Account of the Use of the Rod

Download The Merry Order of St. Bridget: Personal Account of the Use of the Rod PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146553346X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Merry Order of St. Bridget: Personal Account of the Use of the Rod by : James Glass Bertram

Download or read book The Merry Order of St. Bridget: Personal Account of the Use of the Rod written by James Glass Bertram and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1930-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am sure you must have wondered what has become of me in all these years (three, isn't it?) since we met at Lord E-'s place. Perhaps you won't care to hear from me again, and will fancy I have forgotten our old friendship; indeed, my dear, it is not so, but I've been knocking about a bit, and seen the world. I've been in Paris two years in two different places, and learned as much in that time as many folks do in a lifetime. Cooped up as you are in a humdrum sort of place, with one old lady, you can have no idea of what goes on in livelier households. In my last place I was one of six lady's maids, all with nothing to do but to attend to some separate part of our lady's toilet. I entered her service from that of a grave austere woman with no ideas of colour beyond brown and grey, and a tremendous church-goer, so you may imagine what a change it was. I soon wearied of that place, you may be sure, and was glad when the Marquise St. Valery took me into her service. The Marquis was immensely proud and very poor, but he bestowed his titles and position upon a banker's daughter, whose wealth was said to be fabulous.

The Merry Order of St. Bridget

Download The Merry Order of St. Bridget PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Merry Order of St. Bridget by : James Glass Bertram

Download or read book The Merry Order of St. Bridget written by James Glass Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes

Download The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473391857
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes by : R. Yelyr

Download or read book The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes written by R. Yelyr and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whip and the stick has been used for much of human history, this fascinating history reveals why corporal punishment seems to be such a common thing among all cultures through much of recorded history.

The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books

Download The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375722939
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books by : Marie Tedford

Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books written by Marie Tedford and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The antiquarian's reference to old books features thousands of listings, including hundreds of new titles, a new Internet buying guide, a complete glossary of book-collecting terms, research resources, information on dealers, and advice on buying, selling, and maintaining fragile acquisitions. Original.

Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930

Download Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351951076
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930 by : Peter Mendes

Download or read book Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930 written by Peter Mendes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').

A Study of Erotic Literature in England

Download A Study of Erotic Literature in England PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3749449112
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis A Study of Erotic Literature in England by : W. v. Murat

Download or read book A Study of Erotic Literature in England written by W. v. Murat and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by Pisanus Fraxi (Henry Spencer Ashbee) and quotations from the books themselves. The time line is WW II. Who was the author? He may have been Charles Reginald Dawes (1879-1964) who is supposed to have written (but not published) a text of this or a similar title. His profession or his activities are not known - he once called himself a writer but library catalogues credit him only with two publications: The Marquis de Sade (Paris 1927) and Retif de la Bretonne (London 1946, privately printed). He may have been a popular writer under pseudonyms, though. Dawes owned a good erotica collection which he willed to the British Museum Library; that would explain why the author of this Study - if he was Dawes - could quote freely from erotic texts which only few of his contemporaries would have had available. The main merits of this book are that the author was thoroughly familiar with English (and French) erotic literature and that he put his material in chronological order and in context. The editor added a number of references, illustrations and indices of personal names and titles to facilitate navigation.

Sale Catalogues

Download Sale Catalogues PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Sale Catalogues by : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Book Prices Current

Download American Book Prices Current PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis American Book Prices Current by :

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Strange Duets

Download Strange Duets PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297418
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Strange Duets by : Kim Marra

Download or read book Strange Duets written by Kim Marra and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autocratic male impresarios increasingly dominated the American stage between 1865 and 1914. Many rose from poor immigrant roots and built their own careers by making huge stars out of “undiscovered,” Anglo-identified actresses. Reflecting the antics of self-made industrial empire-builders and independent, challenging New Women, these theatrical potentates and their protégées gained a level of wealth and celebrity comparable to that of Hollywood stars today. In her engaging and provocative Strange Duets, Kim Marra spotlights three passionate impresario-actress relationships of exceptional duration that encapsulated the social tensions of the day and strongly influenced the theatre of the twentieth century. Augustin Daly and Ada Rehan, Charles Frohman and Maude Adams, and David Belasco and Mrs. Leslie Carter reigned over “legitimate” Broadway theatre, the venue of greatest social cachet for the monied classes. Unlike impresarios and actresses in vaudeville and burlesque, they produced full-length spoken drama that involved special rigors of training and rehearsal to sustain a character’s emotional “truth” as well as a high level of physical athleticism and endurance. Their efforts compelled fascination at a time when most people believed women’s emotions were seated primarily in the reproductive organs and thus were fundamentally embodied and sexual in nature. While the impresario ostensibly exercised full control over his leading lady, showing fashionable audiences that the exciting but unruly New Woman could be both tamed and enjoyed, she acquired a power of her own that could bring him to his knees.Kim Marra combines methods of cultural, gender, and sexuality studies with theatre history to explore the vexed mutual dependency between these status-seeking Svengalis and their alternately willing and resistant leading ladies. She illuminates how their on- and off-stage performances, highly charged in this Darwinian era with “racial” as well as gender, sexual, and class dynamics, tapped into the contradictory fantasies and aspirations of their audiences. Played out against a backdrop of enormous cultural and institutional transformation, the volatile romance of Daly and Rehan, closeted homosexuality of Frohman and Adams, and carnal expiations of Belasco and Carter produced strange duets indeed.

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Download Index Librorum Prohibitorum PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Index Librorum Prohibitorum by : Henry Spencer Ashbee

Download or read book Index Librorum Prohibitorum written by Henry Spencer Ashbee and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two

Download How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735846
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two by : Jon Knowles

Download or read book How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two written by Jon Knowles and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Book Two of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Victorian Era to present day. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.

The Sexual Subject

Download The Sexual Subject PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136129006
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Sexual Subject by : Mandy Merck

Download or read book The Sexual Subject written by Mandy Merck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen> over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence. The reader then goes on to explore the particular questions and debates which that conjuction provoked: arguments around pornography and the represenation of the body: questions of the representation of femininity and masculinity, of the female spectator, and of the social subject. Many of the writings in this Reader have become indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the Reader is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections in one volume between debates and inquiries which spanned two crucial decades of film theory. The Sexual Subject is intended not only for all those with a particular interest in film and film theory, but for anyone with a serious commitment to cultural theory, theories of representation, and questions of sexuality and gender.

The Sexual Subject

Download The Sexual Subject PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415074667
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (746 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Sexual Subject by : Screen

Download or read book The Sexual Subject written by Screen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence. The reader then goes on to explore the particular questions and debates which that conjuction provoked: arguments around pornography and the represenation of the body: questions of the representation of femininity and masculinity, of the female spectator, and of the social subject. Many of the writings in this Reader have become indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the Reader is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections in one volume between debates and inquiries which spanned two crucial decades of film theory. The Sexual Subject is intended not only for all those with a particular interest in film and film theory, but for anyone with a serious commitment to cultural theory, theories of representation, and questions of sexuality and gender.

Queen Victoria's Secrets

Download Queen Victoria's Secrets PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231104814
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Queen Victoria's Secrets by : Adrienne Munich

Download or read book Queen Victoria's Secrets written by Adrienne Munich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.

Literary Theories

Download Literary Theories PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793614
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Literary Theories by : Julian Wolfreys

Download or read book Literary Theories written by Julian Wolfreys and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reader and introductory guide to literary theory—includes close readings and a full glossary and bibliography Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies, Literary Theories introduces the reader to the most challenging and engaging aspects of critical studies in the humanities today. Classic essays representing the different theoretical positions and offering striking examples of close readings of literature are preceded by new introductions which present the theory in question and discuss its main currents. With a full glossary and detailed bibliography, Literary Theories is the perfect introductory guide and reader in one volume. Included are essays by Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Iain Chambers, Rey Chow, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Hans Robert Jauss, Claire Kahane, Gail Ching Liang Low, Mary Lydon, Jean-François Lyotard, James M. Mellard, D.A. Miller, J. Hillis Miller, Louis Adrian Montrose, Michael Riffaterre, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alan Sinfield, and Raymond Williams.

Catalogue of the Library and a Brief List of the Engravings and Etchings Belonging to Theodore Irwin, Oswego, N.Y.

Download Catalogue of the Library and a Brief List of the Engravings and Etchings Belonging to Theodore Irwin, Oswego, N.Y. PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library and a Brief List of the Engravings and Etchings Belonging to Theodore Irwin, Oswego, N.Y. by : Theodore Irwin

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library and a Brief List of the Engravings and Etchings Belonging to Theodore Irwin, Oswego, N.Y. written by Theodore Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sale

Download Sale PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Sale by : Anderson Galleries, Inc

Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: