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  • Women and Comedy

    History, Theory, Practice

    par Jacky Bratton, Gilli Bush-Bailey, Lisa Colletta, Joanne Gilbert, Barbara Gold, Tarez Samra Graban, Shannon Hengen, Kirsty Johnston, Joanna Mansbridge, Linda A. Morris, Dolores O’Higgins, Lisa Perfetti, Kay Young, Regina Barreca ...
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Making of the West End Stage

    Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

    par Jacky Bratton ...
    All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    par Judith Flanders ...
    “We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    par Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    par Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... En savoir plus

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  • Jack The Ripper and the East End

    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd

    par Various ...
    In 1888, Whitechapel - at the heart of the inner East End - was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets and alleys were seen as violent and dangerous, overflowing with poverty and depravity. This book aims to uncover the reality of East End life. Sections look at slum housing, immigration, attitudes to women, poverty, ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Bachelors of a different sort

    Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

    par John Potvin ...
    Collections series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation

    par Andrew Lycett ...
    The definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, was the master of the Victorian sensation novel, but he also had a complex private life that could have come straight out of one of his bestselling novels. While his books ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Modifié par Andrew Mangham ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    par Rosalind Crone ...
    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Modifié par Francis O'Gorman ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $36.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London

    par Judith Walkowitz ...
    London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged ... En savoir plus

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