Author: Victoria Margree
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612436X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories about shape-shifting monsters, morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life. However, while Marsh’s work appealed to a public greedy for sensationalist fiction, both the cultural elite of the day and twentieth-century literary critics looked askance at his popular middlebrow fiction. In the wake of the recent rediscovery of Marsh’s fiction, this essay collection builds on burgeoning scholarly interest in the author. Marsh emerges here as a fascinating writer who helped shape the genres of popular fiction and whose stories offer surprising responses to issues of criminality, gender and empire in this period of cultural transition.
Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
Author: Victoria Margree
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612436X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories about shape-shifting monsters, morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life. However, while Marsh’s work appealed to a public greedy for sensationalist fiction, both the cultural elite of the day and twentieth-century literary critics looked askance at his popular middlebrow fiction. In the wake of the recent rediscovery of Marsh’s fiction, this essay collection builds on burgeoning scholarly interest in the author. Marsh emerges here as a fascinating writer who helped shape the genres of popular fiction and whose stories offer surprising responses to issues of criminality, gender and empire in this period of cultural transition.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612436X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories about shape-shifting monsters, morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life. However, while Marsh’s work appealed to a public greedy for sensationalist fiction, both the cultural elite of the day and twentieth-century literary critics looked askance at his popular middlebrow fiction. In the wake of the recent rediscovery of Marsh’s fiction, this essay collection builds on burgeoning scholarly interest in the author. Marsh emerges here as a fascinating writer who helped shape the genres of popular fiction and whose stories offer surprising responses to issues of criminality, gender and empire in this period of cultural transition.
Tales From the Hollow
Author: Scott Kennedy
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039142567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This story begins some 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, before travelling thousands of years ahead to the early pioneers and the farms they established, and right up to the present day. Readers will learn how the local St. John’s Anglican Church welcomed its first worshippers when Beethoven was still performing in the concert halls of Europe. They will meet Cornelius van Nostrand, born in 1730—twenty-six years before Mozart and eleven years before the first performance of Handel’s Messiah—and now at rest in St. John’s churchyard. This rich history also includes such diverse figures as Amelia Earhart—who discovered her love of flying at an aerodrome overlooking Hogg’s Hollow—and Northern Dancer, the most influential Thoroughbred racehorse in history. Members of the British Royal Family—including two Kings of England—were also regular visitors to the area, staying in later years with E.P. Taylor and his wife Winifred at the Taylors’ Windfields Farm, where Northern Dancer was also a resident.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039142567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This story begins some 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, before travelling thousands of years ahead to the early pioneers and the farms they established, and right up to the present day. Readers will learn how the local St. John’s Anglican Church welcomed its first worshippers when Beethoven was still performing in the concert halls of Europe. They will meet Cornelius van Nostrand, born in 1730—twenty-six years before Mozart and eleven years before the first performance of Handel’s Messiah—and now at rest in St. John’s churchyard. This rich history also includes such diverse figures as Amelia Earhart—who discovered her love of flying at an aerodrome overlooking Hogg’s Hollow—and Northern Dancer, the most influential Thoroughbred racehorse in history. Members of the British Royal Family—including two Kings of England—were also regular visitors to the area, staying in later years with E.P. Taylor and his wife Winifred at the Taylors’ Windfields Farm, where Northern Dancer was also a resident.
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Catalogue of the library
Author: Edinburgh phil. inst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Sam Marsh and the Battle of the Cloudships
Author: Robert Bullock
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618973487
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Furious after his defeat by Sam Marsh and the U.S. Navy, the evil Herr Krater is determined to avenge the defeat of his spider tanks at the Battle of Lofoten. At the same time, he also intends to flatten Washington, D.C.! Krater has built a fleet of immense cloudships with saucer attack fighters and red-eyed skelibots to fly them. It is left to his great-grandson, Sam Marsh, to stop him. A sky battle kicks off above America, as cloudship is pitted against cloudship in the biggest family struggle of the millennia. If Sam loses, it means the total annihilation of the Eastern United States! The battle all happens in the nonstop action thriller Sam Marsh and the Battle of the Cloudships: The Sam Marsh Stories - Part 2. The story is a sequel to Sam Marsh: The Viking King.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618973487
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Furious after his defeat by Sam Marsh and the U.S. Navy, the evil Herr Krater is determined to avenge the defeat of his spider tanks at the Battle of Lofoten. At the same time, he also intends to flatten Washington, D.C.! Krater has built a fleet of immense cloudships with saucer attack fighters and red-eyed skelibots to fly them. It is left to his great-grandson, Sam Marsh, to stop him. A sky battle kicks off above America, as cloudship is pitted against cloudship in the biggest family struggle of the millennia. If Sam loses, it means the total annihilation of the Eastern United States! The battle all happens in the nonstop action thriller Sam Marsh and the Battle of the Cloudships: The Sam Marsh Stories - Part 2. The story is a sequel to Sam Marsh: The Viking King.
Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard
Author: Hugh Lamb
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Easy-to-use, well-illustrated volume explains grozzing, roughing, mitering, smoothing, polishing; joining bevels with lead or foil. Patterns in Victorian and contemporary styles for 14 projects: mirrors, lamps, hanging ornaments, panels.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Easy-to-use, well-illustrated volume explains grozzing, roughing, mitering, smoothing, polishing; joining bevels with lead or foil. Patterns in Victorian and contemporary styles for 14 projects: mirrors, lamps, hanging ornaments, panels.
Marsh Tales
Author: William N. Smith
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN: 9780870333385
Category : Market hunting (Game hunting)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Marsh Tales is a delight, a sort of oral history of the outlaw gunners and other salty oldtime waterfowlers that for the first time gives me the flavor of their speech, the feeling of, yes, this is the way it must have been. Don't expect any apologies here -- this is a book about life as it was lived in another time, ribald, salty, anti-authoritarian and lawless. -- Gray's Sporting JournalMore than a hundred stories are gathered here, full of adventure, high jinks, and one-step-ahead-of-the-warden mischief, along with pictures and brief biographies of the fifteen men who told them.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN: 9780870333385
Category : Market hunting (Game hunting)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Marsh Tales is a delight, a sort of oral history of the outlaw gunners and other salty oldtime waterfowlers that for the first time gives me the flavor of their speech, the feeling of, yes, this is the way it must have been. Don't expect any apologies here -- this is a book about life as it was lived in another time, ribald, salty, anti-authoritarian and lawless. -- Gray's Sporting JournalMore than a hundred stories are gathered here, full of adventure, high jinks, and one-step-ahead-of-the-warden mischief, along with pictures and brief biographies of the fifteen men who told them.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 2216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 2216
Book Description
Don Quixote as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663243X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote—recently named the world’s best book by authors from 54 countries—has been widely translated and imitated. Among its less acknowledged imitations are stories in children’s literature. In context of English adaptation and critical response this book explores the noble and “mad” adventures retold for children by distinguished writers and artists in Edwardian books, collections, home libraries, schoolbooks and picture books. More recent adaptations including comics and graphic novels deviate from traditional retellings. All speak to the knight-errant’s lasting influence and appeal to children.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663243X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote—recently named the world’s best book by authors from 54 countries—has been widely translated and imitated. Among its less acknowledged imitations are stories in children’s literature. In context of English adaptation and critical response this book explores the noble and “mad” adventures retold for children by distinguished writers and artists in Edwardian books, collections, home libraries, schoolbooks and picture books. More recent adaptations including comics and graphic novels deviate from traditional retellings. All speak to the knight-errant’s lasting influence and appeal to children.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Author: Linda Colley
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385721498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa and Rio de Janeiro, explored eastern and southern India, and was held captive at the court of the sultan of Morocco. She was involved in land speculation in Florida and in international smuggling, and was caught up in three different slave systems. She was also a part of far larger histories. Marsh's lifetime saw new connections being forged across nations, continents, and oceans by war, empire, trade, navies, slavery, and print, and these developments shaped and distorted her own progress and the lives of those close to her. Colley brilliantly weaves together the personal and the epic in this compelling story of a woman in world history.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385721498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa and Rio de Janeiro, explored eastern and southern India, and was held captive at the court of the sultan of Morocco. She was involved in land speculation in Florida and in international smuggling, and was caught up in three different slave systems. She was also a part of far larger histories. Marsh's lifetime saw new connections being forged across nations, continents, and oceans by war, empire, trade, navies, slavery, and print, and these developments shaped and distorted her own progress and the lives of those close to her. Colley brilliantly weaves together the personal and the epic in this compelling story of a woman in world history.