Author: Hugues Le Roux
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Category : Acrobatics
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Acrobats and Mountebanks
Author: Hugues Le Roux
Publisher:
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Category : Acrobatics
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category : Acrobatics
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Circus and Victorian Society
Author: Brenda Assael
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This conflict informs us not only of the complicated role that the circus played in Victorian society but provides a unique view into a collective psyche fraught by contradiction and anxiety.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This conflict informs us not only of the complicated role that the circus played in Victorian society but provides a unique view into a collective psyche fraught by contradiction and anxiety.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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H, Natural science. H*, Medicine and surgery. I, Arts and trades. 1926
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The Current Encyclopedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Dickens and Popular Entertainment
Author: Paul Schlicke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317233360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens’ life and work, exploring how he channelled his love of entertainment into his artistry. This study offers a challenging reassessment of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times. It shows the importance of entertainment to Dickens’ journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317233360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens’ life and work, exploring how he channelled his love of entertainment into his artistry. This study offers a challenging reassessment of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times. It shows the importance of entertainment to Dickens’ journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Strange Dislocations
Author: Carolyn Steedman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674839786
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Using the perspectives of social and cultural history, and the history of psychology and physiology, Strange Dislocations traces a search for the self, for a past that is lost and gone, and the ways in which, over the last hundred years, the lost vision has come to assume the form of a child.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674839786
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Using the perspectives of social and cultural history, and the history of psychology and physiology, Strange Dislocations traces a search for the self, for a past that is lost and gone, and the ways in which, over the last hundred years, the lost vision has come to assume the form of a child.
The English Historical Review
Author: Mandell Creighton
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The German Popular Play ‘Atis' and the Venetian Opera
Author: Mary Beare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107659027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Originally published in 1938, this book presents an account of the conversion of Italian operas into popular plays in the German language during the period 1675-1722. The account is based around a historical study of the play Atis, inquiring into its sources and providing information on the form and stage setting of the foreign operas it resembles. Illustrative figures, textual notes and a detailed bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in German drama and its relationship with Italian operas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107659027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Originally published in 1938, this book presents an account of the conversion of Italian operas into popular plays in the German language during the period 1675-1722. The account is based around a historical study of the play Atis, inquiring into its sources and providing information on the form and stage setting of the foreign operas it resembles. Illustrative figures, textual notes and a detailed bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in German drama and its relationship with Italian operas.