The Victorian Clown, Bratton

Автор: Newton Michael
Название: Victorian Fairy Tales
ISBN: 0198737599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198737599
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.

Автор: Roden
Название: Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture
ISBN: 0333986431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333986431
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Описание: Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde, and Michael Field amongst others, Same-Sex Desire claims a new literary history, bringing together gay studies and theology in Victorian literature.

Автор: Rintoul
Название: Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture
ISBN: 1137493267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137493262
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Описание: Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose and to obscure brutality towards women in intimate relationships. Through case studies and literary analysis, this book illustrates how intimate violence was both spectacular and unspeakable in the Victorian period.

Автор: Regan-Lefebvre
Название: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire
ISBN: 0230220851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230220850
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Описание: The first biography of Alfred Webb, Irish nationalist and president of the 1894 Indian National Congress. The biography explores how Webb viewed nationalism as a vehicle for global social justice. Drawing on archives in Britain, Ireland and India the author reveals how Irish and Indians used cosmopolitan London to create networks across the Empire.

Автор: Hale Piers J.
Название: Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England
ISBN: 022610849X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226108490
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. This book reveals that two evolutionary and political traditions developed in England in the wake of the 1832 Reform Act: one Malthusian, the other decidedly anti-Malthusian.

Автор: Newey
Название: Women`s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain
ISBN: 140394332X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403943323
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Описание: Examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women`s lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. This book looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers.

Автор: Correa
Название: George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture
ISBN: 0333997573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333997574
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Описание: George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. The book establishes how intensely Eliot`s musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers a fresh view of the experimental writing through which she took literary realism into previously uncharted regions.

Автор: Davison Jon
Название: Clown Training
ISBN: 1137387572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137387578
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Описание: This comprehensive guide to clown training invites you into the clown workshop and leads you through a complete clown syllabus - from the first steps in playfulness to the work of devising and creating performable numbers and shows.

Автор: Salesa, Damon Ieremia
Название: Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire
ISBN: 0199673748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199673742
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Moving away from conventional theories about Victorian attitudes towards race, Salesa focuses on an array of equally influential, yet seemingly opposite, ideas where racial crossing was seen as a means of improvement, a way to manage racial conflict or create new societies, or even a way to promote the rule of law.

Автор: Lightman Bernard, Dawson Gowan
Название: Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity
ISBN: 022610950X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226109503
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Описание: Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite.

Автор: Griffin
Название: The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain
ISBN: 1107689686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107689688
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women`s rights. It shows how political activity was shaped by changing beliefs about masculinity and demonstrates how gender inequality can be created and reproduced by the state.

Автор: Lightman
Название: Evolution and Victorian Culture
ISBN: 1107028426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107028425
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This is the first collection of essays to assess the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Interdisciplinary and broad-ranging, it explores the relationship of evolution to painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture.