The Golden age of melodrama : twelve 18th century melodramas
Title | The Golden age of melodrama : twelve 18th century melodramas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
The Golden Age of Melodrama
Title | The Golden Age of Melodrama PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Kilgarriff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780723405146 |
Fictions of Knowledge
Title | Fictions of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Y. Batsaki |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0230354610 |
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.
Eating Their Words
Title | Eating Their Words PDF eBook |
Author | Kristen Guest |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2001-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791450901 |
Examines the figure of the cannibal as it relates to cultural identity in a wide range of literary and cultural texts.
The World in Play
Title | The World in Play PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Kaiser |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2011-12-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0804778949 |
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
Violent Victorians
Title | Violent Victorians PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind Crone |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2013-01-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 184779470X |
By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.
The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Gordon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019990927X |
The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies. Focusing on broad groups of issues relating to the music and the production of Sondheim works, rather than on biographical questions about the composer himself, the handbook represents a cross-disciplinary introduction to comprehending Sondheim in musicological, theatrical, and socio-cultural terms. This collection of never-before published essays addresses issues of artistic method and musico-dramaturgical form, while at the same time offering close readings of individual shows from a variety of analytical perspectives. The handbook is arranged into six broad sections: issues of intertextuality and authorship; Sondheim's pioneering work in developing the non-linear form of the concept musical; the production history of Sondheim's work; his writing for film and television; his exploitation and deployment of a wide range of musical genres; and how interpretation through key critical lenses (including sociology, history, and feminist and queer theory) establishes his position in a broader cultural context.