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Amateur Astronomer's Handbook

By: John Benson Sidgwick,R. C. Gamble

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Timeless, comprehensive coverage of telescopes, mirrors, lenses, mountings, telescope drives, micrometers, spectroscopes, more. ". . . highly recommended for very serious nonprofessional astronomers." — A Guide to the Literature of Astronomy. 189 illustrations. Reprint of 1971 edition.

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0486240347

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9780486240343

Manful Assertions

Masculinities in Britain Since 1800

By: Michael Roper,John Tosh

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Manful Assertions

Masculinities in Britain Since 1800

By: Michael Roper,John Tosh

Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the traditional subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all changing forms.

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Routledge

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1000443035

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Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: John Powell

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Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: John Powell

Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313096678

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Great Men at Bad Moments

By: John Saunders

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Great Men at Bad Moments

By: John Saunders

Great Men at Bad Moments centres on the indignities and brutalities inflicted on young pupils during the reigns of some twenty-five headmasters, many of them Church of England clergymen. A major source for the book is the revelations of individual pupils who suffered under the cruel regimes. Many of these boys were later to achieve literary and other fame. So, for example, Leigh Hunt and Coleridge remember the unbridled behaviour of their headmaster, the Reverend Boyer of Christ's Hospital School, described by De Quincey as 'this horrid incarnation of whips and scourges'. Winston Churchill and the art critic, Roger Fry, provide vivid accounts of the atrocities committed by their prep school headmaster, the Revered Sneyd-Kynnersley. Roald Dahl ponders on the mix of sadism and Christianity which cast a shadow over his days at Repton. And A.N. Wilson tells how the brutality of his paedophile headmaster and his sadistic wife scarred him forever.Great Men at Bad Moments takes its form from John Aubrey's Brief Lives, mingling the anecdotal with the analytical.

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eBook Partnership

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1785452398

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A Man's Place

Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

By: John Tosh

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A Man's Place

Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

By: John Tosh

divDomesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century—illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds—and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. /DIV

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Yale University Press

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0300143680

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9780300143683

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

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734

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Routledge

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131786333X

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The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

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The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

An engaging guide to a rich literary heritage, The Stanford Companion presents a fascinating parade of novels, authors, publishers, editors, reviewers, illustrators, and periodicals that created the culture of Victorian fiction. Its more than 6,000 alphabetical entries provide an incomparable range of useful and little-known source material, its scholarship enlivened by the author's wit and candor.

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Stanford University Press

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0804718423

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The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5

By: John Aplin

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The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5

By: John Aplin

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040242839

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9781040242834

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

His Life and Work

By: John Paul Russo

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I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

His Life and Work

By: John Paul Russo

A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not only what to read but how to read it. Acknowledged "father" of New Criticism, he produced the most systematic body of critical writing in the English language since Coleridge. His method of close reading dominated the English-speaking classroom for half a century. John Paul Russo draws on close personal acquaintance with Richards as well as on unpublished materials, correspondence, and interviews, to write the first biography (originally published in 1989) of one of last century’s most influential and many-sided men of letters.

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1317527798

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9781317527794

Recollections and Reflections

By: Joseph John Thomson

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Recollections and Reflections

By: Joseph John Thomson

This 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876-1936.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108037925

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That Noble Science of Politics

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

By: Stefan Collini,Donald Winch,John Burrow

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That Noble Science of Politics

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

By: Stefan Collini,Donald Winch,John Burrow

In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.

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CUP Archive

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0521277701

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Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 6

By: John Benson,James Jaffe,Keith Gildart

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Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 6

By: John Benson,James Jaffe,Keith Gildart

Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry.

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1040249302

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The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

By: John Aplin

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The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

By: John Aplin

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

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1040243908

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9781040243909

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

A Critical History

By: John Wyver

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Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

A Critical History

By: John Wyver

No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments continue today with highly successful live cinema broadcasts. The Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965), Peter Brook's film of King Lear (1971), Channel 4's epic version of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and Hamlet with David Tennant (BBC, 2009) are among their most iconic adaptations. Many other RSC productions live on as extracts in documentaries, as archival recordings, in trailers and in other fragmentary forms. Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company explores this remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. John Wyver is a broadcasting historian and the producer of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, and is uniquely well-placed to provide a vivid account of the company's television and film productions. He contributes an award-winning practitioner's insight into screen adaptation's numerous challenges and rich potential.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350006599

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9781350006591

Hemingway's Art of Revision

The Making of the Short Fiction

By: John Beall

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Hemingway's Art of Revision

The Making of the Short Fiction

By: John Beall

In Hemingway’s Art of Revision, John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of how Ernest Hemingway crafted his distinctive prose through a rigorous process of revision. Ranging from two vignettes in the first version of In Our Time through early touchstones such as “Indian Camp” and “The Killers” to later masterpieces including “Fathers and Sons,” Beall’s study considers the modernist influences, aesthetic choices, and experimental effects that characterized Hemingway’s approach to the short story. Revisions to “Big Two-Hearted River,” for example, were not simply cuts and omissions, but involved adding paragraphs to slow down the narrative and represent Nick Adams’s careful observations of fish as he watched their shadows on the river. For “A Way You’ll Never Be,” Hemingway’s revisions developed Nick’s interior monologues, manic lecture about grasshoppers, and wacky sense of humor to show the character restoring a sense of emotional balance despite his traumatic memories of being wounded. By drawing attention to the meticulous omissions, additions, and replacements that shaped these texts, Beall reveals how extensively and richly Hemingway revised his drafts. Hemingway’s Art of Revision gives a detailed view of a great prose stylist at work.

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LSU Press

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0807182230

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9780807182239

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs

A Bibliography and Iconography

By: Sidney Jackson Jowers,John P. Cavanagh

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Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs

A Bibliography and Iconography

By: Sidney Jackson Jowers,John P. Cavanagh

This is the first bibliography in its field, based on firsthand collations of the actual titles. Over 3500 detailed entries provide an invaluable guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians.

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0415247748

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Amateur Astronomer's Handbook

Amateur Astronomer's Handbook

Manful Assertions

Manful Assertions

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

Great Men at Bad Moments

Great Men at Bad Moments

A Man's Place

A Man's Place

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

Recollections and Reflections

Recollections and Reflections

That Noble Science of Politics

That Noble Science of Politics

Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 6

Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 6

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

Hemingway's Art of Revision

Hemingway's Art of Revision

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs

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