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The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901

By: John Russell Stephens

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The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901

By: John Russell Stephens

Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521136555

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9780521136556

Dickens's Villains

Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture

By: Juliet John

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Dickens's Villains

Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture

By: Juliet John

This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.

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276

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199261377

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9780199261376

Transatlantic Sensations

By: John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

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Transatlantic Sensations

By: John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds

Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.

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303

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Routledge

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1317008146

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9781317008149

Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

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The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

This collection of letters between Maud Gonne (Irish activist, actress, and long-time love of W. B. Yeats) and John Quinn (Irish-American lawyer, art collector, and patron) deals with art, literature, Irish politics, and the horrific conflicts of the early twentieth century. Their letters are filled with details about the Irish fight for freedom, and how it affected Yeats, Pound, Joyce, and other friends; about Gonne's never-ending battle to establish a school feeding program for the starving children of Ireland; and about the alarming changes in the political and social world of their time.

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334

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910241

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9781575910246

A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing

By: John Parascandola

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A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing

By: John Parascandola

Growing public interest in animal welfare issues in recent decades has prompted increased attention to the efforts to develop alternative, nonanimal methods for use in biomedical research and product testing. In A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing, the first book-length study of the subject, John Parascandola traces the history of the concept of alternatives to the use of animals in research and testing in Britain and the United States from its beginnings until it had become firmly established in the scientific and animal protection communities by the end of the 1980s. This account of the history of alternatives is set within the context of developments within science, animal welfare, and politics. The book covers the key role played by animal welfare advocates in promoting alternatives, the initial resistance to alternatives on the part of many in the scientific community, the opportunity provided by alternatives for compromise and cooperation between these two groups, and the dominance of the “Three Rs”—reduction, refinement, and replacement.

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151

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Purdue University Press

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1612499643

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9781612499642

Looking Back

A History of Sports in Oconee County, as Derived from Old Volumes of the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

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A History of Sports in Oconee County, as Derived from Old Volumes of the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

From the first baseball game in the 1870s until the last issue of the Keowee Courier was published on March 27, 2019, the Courier faithfully reported sports events in Oconee County on a weekly basis. This book, the 11th in the "Looking Back - A Journey Through the Pages of the Keowee Courier" series, contains some of the sports highlights over the decades. There are eight sections of the book: (1) Baseball, (2) Track and Field, (3) Town-to-Town Relay Races, (4) Basketball, (5) Football, (6) High School Sports Expand, (7) Various Other Sports, and (8) School Fair and Field Days. The book covers sports from throughout the county until about 1920. After 1920, the coverage is primarily about sports in Walhalla and surrounding areas.

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184

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796049530

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9781796049534

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

By: Eric Lemon,John M. Jenkins

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They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

By: Eric Lemon,John M. Jenkins

A remarkable compilation of over 400 pages of statistics and records of every match and every player for the Wales national Rugby Union team from the first match in February 1881 up to December 2023.

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470

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Eric Lemon

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0645362662

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9780645362664

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

By: John Charles,Shelley Mosley

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

By: John Charles,Shelley Mosley

Great reads for busy people. This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and nonfiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, Westerns, science fiction, such nonfiction topics as animals, art, biography, memoirs, business, true crime, and more. Plus, each entry includes a summary of the book, its significance, and a critique/observation/comment.

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293

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Penguin

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1440625603

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9781440625602

Dublin

By: John Tomedi

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Dublin

By: John Tomedi

Most notably the home of James Joyce and the setting for his masterwork, Ulysses, Dublin is also the birthplace of George Bernard Shaw and was the childhood home of Oscar Wilde.

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214

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Infobase Publishing

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1438115547

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9781438115542

Sir Charles Cooper

First Chief Justice of South Australia 1856-1861

By: John Michael Bennett

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Sir Charles Cooper

First Chief Justice of South Australia 1856-1861

By: John Michael Bennett

Charles Cooper, a timid, retiring, weak-voiced, sickly and barely successful English barrister, accepted appointment as Judge in South Australia in 1839.A sound rather than a brilliant lawyer, duty was his watchword, evangelical churchmanship his consolation. For 17 years, he trudged on through illness and the meanness of the Colonial Office which saw him one of the worst paid judges on colonial service. In 1856 he was recognized at last with appointment as the Province's first Chief Justice.Dr Bennett shows that the appointment was well merited. In a strong re-evaluation, Cooper is shown to have been a good and effective judge, whose puny modern reputation has been shaped too much by the distorted, politically based, views of critics of his day.His early years on the Bench required him to grapple with the problem of trying to apply English law to the indigenous people. He brought peace to a querulous legal profession and did much to reverse entrenched community contempt for authority existing in Adelaide on his arrival.His workload was enormous. He remained the only judge until 1850 and thereafter he found himself often in collision with the eccentric and irrepressible Benjamin Boothby (appointed puisne judge in 1853). Sick and exhausted, Sir Charles Cooper retired to England on a pension in 1861. There he regained his health and survived to the age of 92, a further 26 years. He had supported the explorations of Charles Sturt who named the legendary Cooper's Creek in his honour.

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Federation Press

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1862874425

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9781862874428

Propaganda and Empire

The manipulation of British public opinion, 1880–1960

By: John M. MacKenzie

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Propaganda and Empire

The manipulation of British public opinion, 1880–1960

By: John M. MacKenzie

It has been said that the British Empire, on which the sun never set, meant little to the man in the street. Apart from the jingoist eruptions at the death of Gordon or the relief of Mafeking he remained stonily indifferent to the imperial destiny that beckoned his rulers so alluringly. Strange, then that for three-quarters of a century it was scarcely possible to buy a bar of soap or a tin of biscuits without being reminded of the idea of Empire. Packaging, postcards, music hall, cinema, boy's stories and school books, exhibitions and parades, all conveyed the message that Empire was an adventure and an ennobling responsibility. Army and navy were a sure shield for the mother country and the subject peoples alike. Boys' brigades and Scouts stiffened the backbone of youth who flocked to join. In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself and, as events such as the Falklands 'adventure' showed, the embers continue to smoulder.

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Manchester University Press

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1526119544

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9781526119544

Book's by John Russell Stephens

The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901

The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901

Dickens's Villains

Dickens's Villains

Transatlantic Sensations

Transatlantic Sensations

Too Long a Sacrifice

Too Long a Sacrifice

A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing

A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing

Looking Back

Looking Back

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Dublin

Dublin

Sir Charles Cooper

Sir Charles Cooper

Propaganda and Empire

Propaganda and Empire

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