Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Queen Victoria's Secrets
Author: Adrienne Munich
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.
The city trip guide for Melbourne (Australia)
Author: YouGuide Ltd
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837062684
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837062684
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Circles
Author: Veronica O'Leary
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466980400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Modern Tragic Love Story. Romance, Faith Suspense. Monumental revelation at conclusion. Recommended by U.S.R. Gold Seal of Literary Excellence.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466980400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Modern Tragic Love Story. Romance, Faith Suspense. Monumental revelation at conclusion. Recommended by U.S.R. Gold Seal of Literary Excellence.
Ski
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
V!VA Travel Guides
Author: Paula Newton
Publisher: Viva Publishing Network
ISBN: 0979126428
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Viva members around the world contribute to the travel guides' creation and updating. They provide information concerning hotels, restaurants, tours, shopping, and activities.
Publisher: Viva Publishing Network
ISBN: 0979126428
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Viva members around the world contribute to the travel guides' creation and updating. They provide information concerning hotels, restaurants, tours, shopping, and activities.
Exploring Texas History
Author: Elaine L. Galit
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461730708
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Combining fascinating stories of Texas history with travel adventures around the state, Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures suggests where to go and what to see by tracking historical characters and events. The travel destinations echo the settlement of Texas, the battle for independence, the Alamo, cowboys, vacqueros, Buffalo Soldiers, shipwrecks, and cattle drives. Each chapter includes history, travel routes, best sights, best times to visit, lodging, dining, and sources for additional information. Families, visitors, travelers with a love of history, and teachers and students studying the required curriculum of the fourth grade in Texas schools will find this guide practical and user friendly.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461730708
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Combining fascinating stories of Texas history with travel adventures around the state, Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures suggests where to go and what to see by tracking historical characters and events. The travel destinations echo the settlement of Texas, the battle for independence, the Alamo, cowboys, vacqueros, Buffalo Soldiers, shipwrecks, and cattle drives. Each chapter includes history, travel routes, best sights, best times to visit, lodging, dining, and sources for additional information. Families, visitors, travelers with a love of history, and teachers and students studying the required curriculum of the fourth grade in Texas schools will find this guide practical and user friendly.
Atmospheres and the Experiential World
Author: Shanti Sumartojo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315281236
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
We live in atmospheres, we talk about them and we move through them. They offer us an important route into comprehending several aspects of human life and experience, what is important to people, the environments life is played out in, and the processes of change and possible futures. Atmospheres are an ephemeral yet inescapable element of our everyday experiential and conceptual environments. They are continually beyond our grasp as they undergo constant transformation. By interrogating atmospheres, this book arrives at new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, space, time and events. Atmospheres and the Experiential World explores the ways we engage with these affective modes, and the possibilities they offer for researchers, designers and policy-makers to make and intervene in the world. Chapters propose an approach to atmospheres that is not fixed to certain forms or boundaries. Instead, this book argues that atmospheres should be conceptualised as dynamic and changing configurations that allow analytical insight into a range of topics when we think in, about and through them. This book offers scholars, designers and creative practitioners, professionals and students a research-based way of understanding and intervening in atmospheres.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315281236
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
We live in atmospheres, we talk about them and we move through them. They offer us an important route into comprehending several aspects of human life and experience, what is important to people, the environments life is played out in, and the processes of change and possible futures. Atmospheres are an ephemeral yet inescapable element of our everyday experiential and conceptual environments. They are continually beyond our grasp as they undergo constant transformation. By interrogating atmospheres, this book arrives at new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, space, time and events. Atmospheres and the Experiential World explores the ways we engage with these affective modes, and the possibilities they offer for researchers, designers and policy-makers to make and intervene in the world. Chapters propose an approach to atmospheres that is not fixed to certain forms or boundaries. Instead, this book argues that atmospheres should be conceptualised as dynamic and changing configurations that allow analytical insight into a range of topics when we think in, about and through them. This book offers scholars, designers and creative practitioners, professionals and students a research-based way of understanding and intervening in atmospheres.
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Question Reality: An Investigation of Self-Humans-Environment / Part 2 Global Distribution
Author: Victoria Minnich
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435720598
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Question Reality is an arduous journey of re-organization of the mind of an anorexic, academic female in fight for her own physical and mental survival. In the process, she re-invents the wheel of ecology and science, in consideration of human interactions with the environment. Written in a synergistic, humorous dialogue between two graduate students--Terra the Biogeek and Buz the Geobum--who venture on a fictional road trip up the California Coastline. Part 2 of a two-part edition.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435720598
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Question Reality is an arduous journey of re-organization of the mind of an anorexic, academic female in fight for her own physical and mental survival. In the process, she re-invents the wheel of ecology and science, in consideration of human interactions with the environment. Written in a synergistic, humorous dialogue between two graduate students--Terra the Biogeek and Buz the Geobum--who venture on a fictional road trip up the California Coastline. Part 2 of a two-part edition.