Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The true history of Tom and Jerry; or, The day and night scenes, of life in London, with a key to the persons and places, together with a vocabulary and glossary of the flash and slang terms, by C. Hindley
Author: Pierce Egan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The True History of Tom and Jerry
Author: Charles Hindley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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True History of Tom and Jerry
Author: Pierce Egan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
The True History of Tom and Jerry, Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Life in London, from the Start to the Finish!
Author: Charles Hindley
Publisher:
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Author: Jenna M. Gibbs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work.
Picture World
Author: Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
Author: Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
Bibliography of British Folklore: Text
Author: John David Allison Widdowson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles W. Frederickson
Author: Charles William Frederickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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