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Author : Gilles Teulié
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782842698218
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Victorian Representations of War written by Gilles Teulié and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilles Teulié
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782842698218
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Victorian Representations of War written by Gilles Teulié and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Peck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378803
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book War, the Army and Victorian Literature written by J. Peck and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study of how literature both reflected and contributed to the eclipse and subsequent revival of militarism in the nineteenth century. Focusing on four major disputes in the Crimea, India, the Sudan, and South Africa as well as the role of the army in Britain, John Peck examines how Victorian writers responded to military issues. At the heart of the book is a dilemma that characterises the Victorian period: the impossibility of reconciling imperial aggression with liberal domestic values.
Author : Tai-Chun Ho
Publisher : Peter Lang UK
ISBN 13 : 9781788741798
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry written by Tai-Chun Ho and published by Peter Lang UK. This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study to examine the predicaments and achievements of mid-Victorian war poets. Confronted with news of suffering soldiers during the Crimean War (1854-6), these 'armchair poets' engaged with the politics of war by composing lines of verse at home, reworking established traditions of war poetry.
Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490123
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Queen Victoria's Wars written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.
Author : Galia Ofek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904183
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Galia Ofek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were fully cognizant of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce. In particular, they were increasingly alert to the symbolic significance of hairstyling. Among the writers and artists Ofek considers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Herbert Spencer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Aubrey Beardsley. By examining fiction, poetry, anthropological and scientific works, newspaper reviews and advertisements, correspondence, jewellery, paintings, and cartoons, Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Lorenzo Servitje
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438481691
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Medicine Is War written by Lorenzo Servitje and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola crisis," "a new weapon against antibiotic resistance," or "the immune system fights cancer" without considering their assumptions, implications, and history. But there is nothing natural about this language. It does not have to be, nor has it always been, the way to understand the relationship between humans and disease. Medicine Is War shows how this "martial metaphor" was popularized throughout the nineteenth century. Drawing on the works of Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad, Lorenzo Servitje examines how literary form reflected, reinforced, and critiqued the convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture. He considers how, in migrating from military medicine to the civilian sphere, this metaphor responded to the developments and dangers of modernity: urbanization, industrialization, government intervention, imperial contact, crime, changing gender relations, and the relationship between the one and the many. While cultural and literary scholars have attributed the metaphor to late nineteenth-century germ theory or immunology, this book offers a new, more expansive history stretching from the metaphor's roots in early nineteenth-century militarism to its consolidation during the rise of early twentieth-century pharmacology. In so doing, Servitje establishes literature's pivotal role in shaping what war has made thinkable and actionable under medicine's increasing jurisdiction in our lives. Medicine Is War reveals how, in our own moment, the metaphor remains conducive to harming as much as healing, to control as much as empowerment.
Author : Kevin Swafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Class in Late-Victorian Britain written by Kevin Swafford and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enacts a literary-historical analysis of some of the major issues concerning the representation and contingencies of class in popular and lesser known late-Victorian works. Included are discussions of popular writers such as Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Somerset Maugham, Jack London, George Moore, H.G. Wells, Sir Walter Besant, Arthur Morrison, and Margaret Harkness.
Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478530
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars written by Mischa Honeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
Author : Martin Danahay
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978819196
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book War Without Bodies written by Martin Danahay and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Two photographs -- Sacrificial bodies : Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade -- The soldier's body and sites of mourning -- War games -- Trauma and the soldier's body -- Sophie Ristelhueber : landscape as body -- Conclusion: Future war without bodies.
Author : Deborah Epstein Nord
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510330
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.
Author : Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719026591
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Late Victorian Army, 1868-1902 written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Harris
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443815667
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Art, Politics and Society in Britain (1880-1914) written by Trevor Harris and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest word in politics is “new”. The oldest word in the writing of history may well be “modern”: it is, without doubt, one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language. But the indeterminacy is perhaps just another way of saying that the difficulties raised are of a kind which simply will not go away… This collection of eight essays on aspects of modernity and modernism takes up the challenge of examining the complex, but fascinating convergence of aesthetics, politics and a quasi-spiritual dimension which is perhaps typical of British modernist thinking about modernity. This may have produced figures whom we now dismiss as eccentrics or “aesthetes”, it none the less produced figures whom many still think of as in some sense embodying the national identity: what, after all, could be more “English” than a William Morris wallpaper design? Rather than towards socialism in any of its “scientific” guises, what the British modernist approach to modernity may have been pushing at was yet another mutation of liberalism: a libertarian-humanitarian hybrid in which indigenous radical and Evangelical legacies keep scientific socialism in check, where fellowship and domesticity edge out a larger-scale, more abstract “fraternity”, and where citoyenneté or civisme give way to what George Orwell was later to define simply as “decency”.
Author : Ben Wellings
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948486
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary written by Ben Wellings and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Great War for Civilisation’ was more than a European conflict. It was a global war spanning Asia, Africa and beyond. Drawing on original archival research in several languages and employing multidisciplinary frames of analysis, this innovative volume explores how race and empire were commemorated during the First World War Centenary.
Author : Marty Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136740546
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter written by Marty Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful and yet uncertain site for the transmission of official imperial ideologies. Nineteenth-century playwrights fed the public’s interest in Britain’s Empire by producing a wide variety of plays set in colonial locales: India, Australia, and—to a lesser extent—Africa. These plays recreated the battles that consolidated Britain’s hold on overseas territories, dramatically depicted western humanitarian intervention in indigenous cultural practices, celebrated images of imperial supremacy, and occasionally criticized the sexual and material excesses that accompanied the processes of empire-building. An active participant in the real-world drama of empire, the Victorian theatre produced popular images that reflected, interrogated, and reinforced imperial policy. Indeed, it was largely through plays and spectacles that the British public vicariously encountered the sights and sounds of the distant imperial periphery. Empire as it was seen on stage was empire as it was popularly known: the repetitions of character types, plot scenarios, and thematic concerns helped forge an idea of empire that, though largely imaginary, entertained, informed, and molded the theatre-going British public.
Author : Barbara Korte
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839410622
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Represented Reporters written by Barbara Korte and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after their profession had been created in the mid-19th century. With a particular focus on Britain, this study investigates the representation of war correspondents from Victorian times to the present, in memoirs, novels and films. Such representations react to prevailing notions that exist about war reporters and participate in their further construction. With its cultural approach, this book complements studies of war correspondents in media and communication studies, history and ethnology.
Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 written by Harold E. Raugh and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
