Author: Andrew Wight (of Philadelphia)
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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A Catalogue of the Entire Library of Andrew Wight, of Philadelphia
Author: Andrew Wight (of Philadelphia)
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Secret Commissions
Author: Stephen Donovan
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551113309
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the light of day. Even today their exposure has the power to shock. As one investigator promised, “The Report of our Secret Commission will be read to-day with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world.” Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism. Their authors range from well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry Mayhew, and W.T. Stead to now-forgotten names such as Hugh Shimmin, Elizabeth Banks, and Olive Malvery. Collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style “muckraking.” The reports address topics as varied as child abuse, animal cruelty, juvenile prostitution, sweat-shops, slums, gypsies, abortion, infanticide, and other controversial social issues. The collection features detailed chapter introductions, original illustrations, a historical overview of investigative reporting in the nineteenth-century press, and suggestions for further reading.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551113309
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the light of day. Even today their exposure has the power to shock. As one investigator promised, “The Report of our Secret Commission will be read to-day with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world.” Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism. Their authors range from well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry Mayhew, and W.T. Stead to now-forgotten names such as Hugh Shimmin, Elizabeth Banks, and Olive Malvery. Collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style “muckraking.” The reports address topics as varied as child abuse, animal cruelty, juvenile prostitution, sweat-shops, slums, gypsies, abortion, infanticide, and other controversial social issues. The collection features detailed chapter introductions, original illustrations, a historical overview of investigative reporting in the nineteenth-century press, and suggestions for further reading.
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Haunting Ecologies
Author: Ursula Kluwick
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813950996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813950996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.
A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography, and Travel, Including the Histories of Literature, Art, Sects, Etc., Politics, Geography, Voyages, Sketches, and Manners and Customs, Together with Notes for Readers Under Subject-references
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A Catalogue of Books, Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography and Travel, Etc. 2. ... Ed
Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department
Author: Boston Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Catalogue of Books in the Lending Library
Author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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