London Lives, Hitchcock

Автор: Jameson
Название: Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London
ISBN: 1108073840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108073844
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A professional author of art and literary criticism as well as travel writing, Anna Jameson (1794-1860) published this book on the great private art collections of London in 1844. With an introductory essay and a catalogue raisonnee for each collection, this is a fascinating guide to mid-nineteenth-century taste in art.

Автор: Wheatley
Название: Hogarth`s London
ISBN: 1108070256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108070256
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: First published in 1909, this illustrated study considers the work of the artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697-1764), focusing on his depiction of London and its inhabitants. Written by the bibliographer and editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917), it skilfully unveils the many facets of life in eighteenth-century London.

Автор: Wheatley
Название: London Past and Present
ISBN: 1108028071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108028073
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Описание: Published in 1891 in three volumes, this is a fascinating topographical dictionary covering a thousand years of history. Many of London`s historic streets and buildings were being redeveloped during the rapid urban expansion of the Victorian period, and Wheatley mines historical, literary and architectural sources to preserve their memory.

Автор: Hitchcock
Название: London Lives
ISBN: 1107025273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107025271
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: London Lives exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. In charting the experiences of London`s criminal and poor inhabitants, the book surveys their responses to show us how their daily acts of desperation helped to shape the evolution of the modern state.

Автор: Pisani Michael V.
Название: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
ISBN: 1609382307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382308
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre--accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller--than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.

Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music--in addition to song--was a common feature in the production of stage plays.

The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe.

Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Автор: Malcolm
Название: Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 3 Volume Set
ISBN: 1108081576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108081573
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Born in Philadelphia, James Peller Malcolm (1767–1815) travelled to London in 1787, remaining there until his death. Initially hoping for a career as a landscape painter, he became well known for his engravings, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1792, and for his books on history that made extensive use of original local records. First published in 1808, Anecdotes gives a typically personal and often light-hearted account of the history and customs of Malcolm's adopted city. Illustrated with his engravings, the work ranges from considering the diet and dress of the ancient Britons to suggesting that the Great Fire of London was state-sanctioned to rid the city of plague. This is the 1811 second edition of a valuable and often entertaining insight into English social history. The volumes cover such topics as the origin of English character, religion and superstition, and amusements and popular pastimes.

Автор: Milne Smith Amy
Название: London Clubland
ISBN: 0230120768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230120761
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This work is the first to study the gentlemen`s clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.

Автор: Wagg
Название: The London Olympics of 2012
ISBN: 1137326336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137326331
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Описание: Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London`s bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games` likely impact and the establishment of `Fortress London` to protect the Games. The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well as exploring its media coverage and legacy.

Автор: Knight
Название: London
ISBN: 1108073956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108073950
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Описание: Charles Knight`s six-volume work on London, published 1841-4, relies on the skills of eminent artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically or geographically, this is a fascinating account of what was then the greatest city in the world.

Автор: Thale
Название: Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792–1799
ISBN: 0521089875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521089876
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792-1799, first published in 1983, consists of eighteenth-century documents which trace the history of an early working-class reform society organized by a shoemaker and three of his friends. `Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage` was their slogan and their goal.