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Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic

Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris

By: David Charles Rose

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Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic

Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris

By: David Charles Rose

Why was Paris so popular as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century? Using French, English and American sources, this first volume of a trilogy provides a possible answer with a detailed exploration of both the city and its communities, who, forming a varied cast of colourful characters from duchesses to telephonists, artists to beggars, and dancers to diplomats, crowd the stage. Through the throng moves Oscar Wilde as the connecting thread: Wilde exploratory, Wilde triumphant, Wilde ruined. This use of Wilde as a central figure provides both a cultural history of Paris and a view of how he assimilated himself there. By interweaving fictional representations of Paris and Parisians with historical narrative, Paris of the imagination is blended with the topography of the city described by Victor Hugo as ‘this great phantom composed of darkness and light’. This original treatment of the belle époque is couched in language accessible to all who wish to explore Paris on foot or from an armchair.

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610

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443887633

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9781443887632

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

Left-libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward

By: David Goodway

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Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

Left-libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward

By: David Goodway

From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. This work seeks to recover that indigenous anarchist tradition. It argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals.

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414

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Liverpool University Press

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1846310253

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9781846310256

Mansex Fine

Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-century British Culture

By: David Alderson

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Mansex Fine

Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-century British Culture

By: David Alderson

In 19th-century England, Charles Kingsley accused John Henry Newman of a typically Catholic disregard for truth, charging Newman with lacking manliness. Kingsley himself held pervasive fears of Catholic influence. Highlighting the importance of religious debates to Victorian perceptions of gender, MANSEX FINE explores such controversies in the broader context of their times.

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232

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Manchester University Press

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0719052750

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9780719052750

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch

The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literature" is a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life. Readers interested in British Literature.

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1068

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321106695

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9780321106698

Drama for Students

By: David Galens

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Drama for Students

By: David Galens

Give students the tools they need to make books and authors a meaningful part of their lives by introducing them to one of our "For Students" literary references. These resources are specially crafted to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers as well as the interests of general readers and researchers.

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416

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Drama for Students

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0787627534

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9780787627539

The Last Log of the Titanic

By: David G. Brown

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The Last Log of the Titanic

By: David G. Brown

Nearly nine decades after the event, the sinking of the Titanic continues to command more attention than any other twentieth-century catatrophe. Yet most of what is commonly believed about that fateful night in 1912 is, at best, a body of myth and legend nurtured by the ship's owners and surviving officers and kept alive by generations of authors and moviemakers. That, at least, is the thesis presented in this compellingly bold, thoroughly plausible contrarian reconstruction of the last hours of the pride of the White Star Line. The new but no-less harrowing Titanic story that Captain David G. Brown unfolds is one involving a tragic chain of errors on the part of the well-meaning crew, the pernicious influence of the ship's haughty owner, who was aboard for the maiden trip, and a fatal overconfidence in the infallibility of early twentieth-century technology. Among the most startling facts to emerge are that the Titanic did not collide with an iceberg but instead ran aground on a submerged ice shelf, resulting in damage not to the ship's sides but to the bottom of her hull. First Officer Murdoch never gave the infamous CRASH STOP ("reverse engines") order; rather, he ordered ALL STOP, allowing him to execute a nearly successful S-curve maneuver around the berg. The iceberg did not materialize unheralded from an ice-free sea; the Titanic was likely steaming at 22 1/2 knots through scattered ice, with no extra lookouts posted, for two hours or more before the fatal encounter. Visibility was not poor that night, and the only signs of haze or distortion were those produced by the ice field itself as the Titanic approached. Most startling of all, however, is evidence that the ship might have stayed afloat long enough to permit the rescue of all passengers and crew if Captain Smith, at the behest of his employer, Bruce Ismay, had not given the order to resume steaming. Offering a radically new interpretation of the facts surrounding the most famous shipwreck in history, The Last Log of the Titanic is certain to ignite a storm of controversy.

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241

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071374566

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9780071374569

Teaching British Literature

A Companion to the Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch

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Teaching British Literature

A Companion to the Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch

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032102737X

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9780321027375

Book's by David Wilde

Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic

Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

Mansex Fine

Mansex Fine

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

Drama for Students

Drama for Students

The Last Log of the Titanic

The Last Log of the Titanic

Teaching British Literature

Teaching British Literature

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