Author: John ClelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Midnight Spy, Or, A View of the Transactions of London and Westminster from the Hours of Ten in the Evening, Till Five in the Morning
Author: John ClelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Midnight Spy, Or, a View of the Transactions of London and Westminster, from the Hours of Ten in the Evening, Till Five in the Morning; Exhibiting a Great Variety of Scenes in High and Low Life, ...
Author: The Midnight Spy: Or, A View of the Transactions of London and Westminster from the Hours of Ten in the Evening, Till Five in the Morning. Exhibiting a Great Variety of Scenes in High and Low Life, with Characters of Some Well Known Adventurers of Both Sexes. Also, the Humors of Round Houses, Jelly Houses, Bagnios, Night Houses, Gaming Tables, Routes and Other Places of Midnight Resort, with General and Particular Descriptions of Women of the Town
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
City of Laughter
Author: Vic GatrellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802716024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
Nightwalking
Author: Matthew BeaumontPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178168796X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today—home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet.
The monthly review, or, literary journal
Author: Catalogues of Manuscripts and Books for Sale by Thomas Thorpe
Author: Thomas Thorpe (Bookseller, of Bedford Street, Covent Garden.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Thief-Taker Hangings
Author: Aaron SkirbollPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493014234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes ruled the land. Execution by hanging often punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring stories of fearless criminals proliferated, giving birth to a new medium: the newspaper. In 1724, housebreaker Jack Sheppard—a “pocket Hercules,” his small frame packed with muscle—finally met the hangman. Street singers sang ballads about the Cockney burglar because no prison could hold him. Each more astonishing than the last, his final jailbreak took him through six successive locked rooms, after which he shimmied down two blankets from the prison roof to the street below. Just before Sheppard swung, he gave an account of his life to a writer in the crowd. Daniel Defoe stood in the shadow of the day’s literati—Swift, Pope, Gay—and had done hard time himself for sedition and bankruptcy. He saw how prison corrupted the poor. They came out thieves, but he came out a journalist. Six months later, the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders covered another death at the hanging tree. Jonathan Wild looked every bit the brute—body covered in scars from dagger, sword, and gun, bald head patched with silver plates from a fractured skull—and he had all but invented the double-cross. He cultivated young thieves, profited from their work, then turned them in for his reward—and their execution. But one man refused to play his game. Sheppard didn’t take orders from this self-proclaimed “thief-taker general,” nor would he hawk his loot through Wild’s fences. The two-faced bounty hunter took it personally and helped bring the young burglar’s life to an end. But when Wild’s charade came to light, he quickly became the most despised man in the land. When he was hanged for his own crimes, the mob wasn’t rooting for Wild as it had for Sheppard. Instead, they hurled stones, rotten food, and even dead animals at him. Defoe once again got the scoop, and tabloid journalism as we know it had begun.
How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book One
Author: Jon KnowlesPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622733614
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Volume I of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Stone Age to the Enlightenment. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
