London Assurance And Other Victorian Comedies

Author : Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192832962
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies written by Klaus Stierstorfer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dion Boucicault: London AssuranceW. S. Gilbert: EngagedEdward Bulwer-Lytton: MoneyHenry James: The High BidOxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographiesilluminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University

Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Assurance written by Dion Boucicault and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Emig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230276083
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Masculinity written by R. Emig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Julia Hoydis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311061541X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk and the English Novel written by Julia Hoydis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.

Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Assurance, a comedy, in five acts written by Dion Boucicault and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dionysus Lardner Bourcicault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Assurance written by Dionysus Lardner Bourcicault and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504380
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.

Author : Alice Jenkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843841789
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science written by Alice Jenkins and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

Author : Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843311593
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmapped Countries written by Anne-Julia Zwierlein and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of two documentaries by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. 'Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington' (2013) shows how Tim travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Libya, among other locations, accompanied by his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian. The two strived to capture the humanity within conflict situations and with their images they focused on the individuals involved and their experiences of the violence surrounding them. Unfortunately, in 2011 Tim was killed by a mortar blast and this film is a tribute and celebration of the legacy he has left behind and includes interviews with those who knew him best. 'Restrepo' (2010) chronicles the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair magazine. Embedded with an army unit in the treacherous Korangal valley, the pair lived in close proximity with the men as they defended an outpost called Restrepo after PFC Juan S. Restrepo, a platoon medic who was an early casualty in the campaign.

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191536008
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and Finance written by Francis O'Gorman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Britain offered to the globe an economic structure of unique complexity. The trading nation, at the heart of a great empire, developed the practices of advanced capitalism - currency, banking, investment, money markets, business practices and theory, intellectual property legislation - from which the financial systems of the contemporary world emerged. Cultural forms in Victorian Britain transacted with high capitalism in a variety of ways but literary critics interested in economics have traditionally been preoccupied either with writers' hostility to industrial capitalism in terms of its shaping of class, or with the development of consumerism. Victorian Literature and Finance is the first extended study to take seriously the relationships between literary forms and those more complex discourses of Victorian high finance. These essays move beyond the examination of literature that was merely impatient with the perceived consequences of capitalism to analyse creative relationships between culture and economic structures. Considering such topics as the nature of currency, women and the culture of investment, the profits of a modern media age, the dramatization of risk on the Victorian stage, the practice of realism in relation to business theory, the culture of speculation at the end of the century, and arguments about the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital, Victorian Literature and Finance sets new terms for understanding and theorizing the relationship between high finance and literary writing in the nineteenth century.