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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159548
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain written by Leah Price and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

The Victorian Studies Reader

Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415355780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Studies Reader written by Kelly Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying one of the most dynamic and influential periods in modern history 'The Victorian Studies Reader' gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture.

The American Schoolhouse Reader

Author : Beverly Allie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974761534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The American Schoolhouse Reader written by Beverly Allie and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting stories about nature and life in the 1910'ss and 1920'ss. With full-color illustrations accompanying each story, this third volume includes dramatic tales, selections on historic figures and delightful character building stories. For children ages 7-9.

The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

Author : Michael Patrick Hearn
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307814157
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Fairy Tale Book written by Michael Patrick Hearn and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living. Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old. Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

The Wounded King

Author : Philippe Boulle
Publisher : World of Darkness
ISBN 13 : 9781588468581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Wounded King written by Philippe Boulle and published by World of Darkness. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regina Blake and Victoria Ash return to London to find its night society in chaos. Mithras, the city's ancient and powerful Kindred prince has come unhinged and hungers for the blood of his own kind. The Tremere of England move to depose the mad prince and his aids and take power for themselves. Can one woman restore order before the streets run red with blood? Does she even want to?

Reductive Reading

Author : Sarah Danielle Allison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425629
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Reductive Reading written by Sarah Danielle Allison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction the syntax of Victorian moralizing: on choosing a proxy for style -- In defense of reading reductively -- The shockingly subtle criticism of the London Quarterly Review, 1855-1861 -- Relative clauses and the narrative present tense in George Eliot -- generalization and declamation : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's present-tense poetics -- A moral technology: speech tags in Charles Dickens's dialogue -- Conclusion : a grammar of perception

Discover Birds

Author : Victoria Marcos
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623956404
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Discover Birds written by Victoria Marcos and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about our feathered, flying friends--birds! This level three reader is packed with info just right for 1st through 3rd grade readers. Discover Reading titles feature short sentences, word lists, and questions at the end of each book to further the learning process.

Fire & Flood

Author : Victoria Scott
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545537479
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Fire & Flood written by Victoria Scott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pulse-pounding thrill ride, where a teen girl must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life--and her own. Time is slipping away. . . . Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything. Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race. The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place? Victoria Scott's breathtaking novel grabs readers by the throat and doesn't let go.

The Thought Reader Craze

Author : Barry H. Wiley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490632
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Thought Reader Craze written by Barry H. Wiley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1870, the hunger for scientific discovery in Great Britain drove prominent scientists, philosophers and others to promote the legitimacy of telepathy. At the same time, mind-reading as a form of entertainment gained increasing popularity as persuasive performers like John Randall Brown, W.I. Bishop, and Stuart C. Cumberland convinced reporters that they truly could read the thoughts of others. The widely publicized, sometimes bizarre, interactions between scientists and these charlatans ushered in the Thought Reader Craze, a period that lasted through about 1910 and saw entertainers make and lose fortunes and scientists make and lose reputations. This volume explores this unusual cultural phenomenon, showing how it was aided through the years by public scientific pronouncements, astonishing performances by the thought readers, and the rapidly changing industrial society.

Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series

Author : Paul Raphael Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351965832
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series written by Paul Raphael Rooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.

The Worlds of Medieval Europe

Author : Clifford R. Backman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Medieval Europe written by Clifford R. Backman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly written and beautifully illustrated, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Second Edition, presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of a western world that was sharply divided between its northern and southern aspects. By integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds into the main narrative, author Clifford R. Backman offers an insightful, detailed, and often witty look at the continuum of interaction--social, cultural, intellectual, and commercial--that existed among all three societies. Filled with relevant primary documents, this compelling volume surpasses traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. In addition, Backman describes the ways in which the medieval Latin West attempted to understand the unified and rational structure of the human cosmos, which they believed existed beneath the observable diversity and disorder of the world. This effort to re-create a human ordering of "unity through diversity" provides an essential key to understanding medieval Europe and the ways in which it regarded and reacted to the worlds around it. Thoroughly updated and redesigned, the second edition features an inviting and accessible layout and integrates captivating new illustrations--nearly twice as many as in the previous edition--to stimulate students' engagement with the material. Moreover, it offers a sophisticated analysis of gender, along with an intriguing examination of the tumultuous relationship between the Mediterranean and Islam. An invaluable resource for both students and instructors, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Second Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in medieval history, Western civilization, the history of Christianity, and Muslim-Christian relations. It also serves as an excellent supplement on the history of a specific country in the medieval period, the history of medieval art, or the history of the European economy.

The Romantic Friendship Reader

Author : Axel Nissen
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535902
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Friendship Reader written by Axel Nissen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel excerpts, stories, and travel writing exemplifying a resistance to the "domestic ideology" of the later 19th century. Cf. Introduction. With critical commentary.

Imperialism at Home

Author : Susan Meyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742671
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Imperialism at Home written by Susan Meyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally, the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of race, and on literature and imperialism.

Reading the Victorian Novel

Author : Annette Federico
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003844715
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Victorian Novel written by Annette Federico and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction. In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer’s choices and the reader’s experience––on the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history. Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.

Too Much

Author : Rachel Vorona Cote
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538729717
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Too Much written by Rachel Vorona Cote and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang) A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. Women who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited, that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm, hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare occasions, we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke, perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's "hysterical" behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much."

The Victorian Chaise Longue

Author : Marghanita Laski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Chaise Longue written by Marghanita Laski and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print

Author : A. Gabriele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101275
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print written by A. Gabriele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It traces the material history of the magazine, its production and global distribution while at the same time placing its history and content in the context of Victorian popular culture and Victorian discursive formations. Among the questions Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print investigates are the status of authors in the marketplace, the innovative place Belgravia holds in the history of print culture, the rhetoric of sensationalism in fiction, journalism and pre-cinema, the representation of trade with India, and the use of urban space as a branding strategy. It makes the claim that the periodical is the sensation novel of the 1860s.