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Jovial Bigotry

Max O’Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners and Morals in 19th Century France, Britain and the United States

By: Jana Verhoeven

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Jovial Bigotry

Max O’Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners and Morals in 19th Century France, Britain and the United States

By: Jana Verhoeven

This book revisits the debate over manners and morals that raged in France, Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth century. It was in essence a debate about gender and sexuality, and one of the foremost figures in the transnational discussions was the French writer and lecturer Paul Blouet, alias Max O’Rell (1847–1903). Although largely forgotten today, O’Rell deserves remembrance as a major phenomenon of the fin-de-siècle publishing and entertainment world. A Frenchman living in England but catering primarily to the American market, he disseminated national and gender stereotypes in an unprecedented way. Admired for the wit deployed in his lectures and his many best-selling books, he is a colorful exemplar of the many bourgeois commentators, male and female; most of them with mainstream political, social and cultural views, who engaged in these discussions, producing dense webs of assertion and opinion across countries and even continents. The elegant French salonnière, the independent but trustworthy English girl, the bitter American spinster activist meddling in public affairs: these are just a few examples of the many caricatural representations of women thrust into the debate. Max O’Rell and his fellow observers commented on women’s position in family and society, their partnership in the couple, their education, their sexual fulfilment, their right to paid work, aspects of social etiquette, feminism, domestic abuse, adultery and prostitution. There were frequent disagreements and sometimes hostile exchanges, but this analysis of the debate reveals a fundamentally common outlook among its participants: an agreement on patriarchy as the foundation of bourgeois society, and on the necessity to confine women in carefully stereotyped roles.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443838225

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9781443838221

Courtesan and Countess

The Lost and Found Memoirs of the French Consul’s Wife

By: Jana Verhoeven,Alan Willey,Jeanne Allen

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Courtesan and Countess

The Lost and Found Memoirs of the French Consul’s Wife

By: Jana Verhoeven,Alan Willey,Jeanne Allen

Céleste de Chabrillan, former courtesan and widow of the first French Consul to Melbourne, became the most prolific female stage writer in nineteenth-century France. Forever haunted by her scandalous past, Céleste fought to hold her place in an artistic world dominated by men. Courtesan and Countess tells the story not only of her struggle as a creative artist to survive and earn a living, but also of her fascinating life at the centre of the bohemian circles of Paris, surrounded by friends such as Alexandre Dumas père, Georges Bizet and Prince Napoléon. Courtesan and Countess paints a portrait of a remarkable woman and of the turbulent world of Paris during the Belle Epoque. Lost for more than eighty years until discovered by the authors in the attic of a French country manor, these are the unpublished and final set of memoirs from Céleste de Chabrillan.

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226

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522868851

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9780522868852

Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life

By: Jana Švorcová,Anton Markoš

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Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life

By: Jana Švorcová,Anton Markoš

The book covers the possible story of emergence of life and its subsequent evolution, emphasizing the necessary evolutionary step negotiation of a common "language set" which kept all inhabitants in the biosphere together, ensuring a basic level of understanding among them. The book focuses on "protocols of communication" (both genetic and epigenetic) representing norms shared and understood across the whole biosphere, enabling a plethora of holobiotic relationships. Cooperative nature of organismal evolution and epigenetic processes as a major force in evolution are also covered. Topics discussed are illustrated in detail on selected casuistics.

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230

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CRC Press

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1351009958

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9781351009959

Arheološka najdišča Ptuja / Archaeological sites of Ptuj

Panorama

By: Jana Horvat,Branko Mušič,Andreja Dolenc Vičič,Anja Ragolič

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Arheološka najdišča Ptuja / Archaeological sites of Ptuj

Panorama

By: Jana Horvat,Branko Mušič,Andreja Dolenc Vičič,Anja Ragolič

Na griču Panorama na Ptuju, kjer leži eden pomembnejših predelov antičnega mesta Poetovio, so geofizikalne raziskave razkrile urbanistično zasnovo s potekom ulic in pravokotnimi stavbnimi parcelami. V knjigi je združeno dozdajšnje vedenje o Panorami, hkrati gre za nadaljevanje sistematične predstavitve arheoloških najdišč Ptuja. Uvodna poglavja prinašajo zgodovino arheoloških raziskav, izhodišča analize in potek geofizikalnih raziskav z uporabljenimi metodami ter glavnimi rezultati. V osrednjih poglavjih smo povezali arheološke podatke različne kakovosti (naključne najdbe, zaščitna izkopavanja, stara in moderna arheološka raziskovanja, geofizikalne preglede) in jih umestili v prostor s pomočjo številnih načrtov. Celovito sliko dopolnjuje dodatek – Katalog kamnitih spomenikov z osnovnimi podatki, opisi, literaturo, komentarjem in fotografijami.

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Založba ZRC

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9610502717

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9789610502715

Jovial Bigotry

Max O’Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners and Morals in 19th Century France, Britain and the United States

By: Jana Verhoeven

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Max O’Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners and Morals in 19th Century France, Britain and the United States

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Jovial Bigotry

Jovial Bigotry

Courtesan and Countess

Courtesan and Countess

Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life

Epigenetic Processes and Evolution of Life

Arheološka najdišča Ptuja / Archaeological sites of Ptuj

Arheološka najdišča Ptuja / Archaeological sites of Ptuj

Jovial Bigotry

Jovial Bigotry

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