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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

A Publishing History

By: Dr Zoe Jaques,Professor Eugene Giddens

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

A Publishing History

By: Dr Zoe Jaques,Professor Eugene Giddens

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the story, and the representation of the child's body by various illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to childhood studies.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147240338X

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9781472403384

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625)

By: Professor Hristomir A Stanev

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Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625)

By: Professor Hristomir A Stanev

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England, concerned with the impact of metropolitan culture. Drawing upon an archive of early modern dramatic and prose writings, and on recent interdisciplinary studies of sensory perception, Stanev here investigates representations of the five senses in Jacobean plays in relationship to metropolitan environments. He traces the significance of under-examined concerns about urban life that emerge in micro-histories of performance and engage the (in)voluntary and sometimes pre-rational participation of the five senses. With a dominant focus on sensation, he argues further for drama’s particular place in expanding the field of social perception around otherwise less tractable urban phenomena, such as suburban formation, environmental and noise pollution, epidemic disease, and the impact of built-in city space. The study focuses on ideas about the senses on stage but also, to the extent possible, explores surviving accounts of the sensory nature of playhouses. The chapters progress from the lower order of the senses (taste and smell) to the higher (hearing and vision) before considering the anomalous sense of touch in Platonic terms. The plays considered include five city comedies, a romance, and two historical tragedies; playwrights whose work is covered include Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, Dekker, and Middleton. Ultimately, Stanev highlights the instrumental role of sensory flux and instability in recognizing the uneasy manner in which the London writers, and perhaps many of their contemporaries, approached the rapidly evolving metropolitan environment during the reign of King James I.

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225

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472424476

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9781472424471

Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

By: Professor Tara E. Pedersen

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Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

By: Professor Tara E. Pedersen

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. This study positions the mermaid as a lens through which to reexamine historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel.

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169

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472440013

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9781472440013

Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: Professor David Pennington

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Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: Professor David Pennington

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources - including popular literature, criminal records, and civil litigation depositions - the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors.

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209

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472443705

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9781472443700

Deviant Behavior

By: John A. Humphrey,Frank Schmalleger,Professor Frank A Schmalleger

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Deviant Behavior

By: John A. Humphrey,Frank Schmalleger,Professor Frank A Schmalleger

This book covers the social forces that shape deviance, the motivations and consequences of deviant behaviors, and how our definition of deviance changes over time. It examines a wide range of deviant behaviors, from criminal acts to extreme forms of everyday behavior, and helps students understand the impact of globalization on traditional and emerging forms of deviance.

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361

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SAGE Publications

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1544394934

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9781544394930

A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists

By: Professor Stuart Sim,Noel Parker

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A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists

By: Professor Stuart Sim,Noel Parker

The A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theories is a companion volume to the already published A-Z Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists. It ranges widely through the social sciences and related areas to identify thinkers who have had a major impact on the development of modern social and political theory and given clear, accessible summaries of their work. While the accent is on the later twentieth century, several up-and-coming theorists are included to ensure a contemporary edge to the volume, classic names in the field from the earlier twentieth century are not neglected, and the collection also delves back into the nineteenth century for such founding figures of the social sciences as Marx and Comte. The volume is therefore both up-to-date and mindful of the sources of modern debates.

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664

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Routledge

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1317903498

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9781317903499

The Civil Sphere

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University

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The Civil Sphere

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University

How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198036817

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9780198036814

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625)

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625)

Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

Going to Market

Going to Market

Deviant Behavior

Deviant Behavior

A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists

A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists

The Civil Sphere

The Civil Sphere

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