Author: R.M Ballantyne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752315253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished by R.M Ballantyne
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
Author: R.M Ballantyne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752315253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished by R.M Ballantyne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752315253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished by R.M Ballantyne
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504157815X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504157815X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Slumming
Author: Seth Koven
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1532
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1532
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Mistress Matchett's mistake
Author: Emma Marshall
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Where the Dew Falls in London
Author: Sarah Doudney
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Transport in British Fiction
Author: A. Gavin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137499044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137499044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.
Christian progress, ed. by E. Boys
Author: Ernest Boys
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Christian Church
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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