Flora Tristan's London Journal, 1840
Author : Flora Tristan
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Flora Tristan
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Flora Tristan
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
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Author : Flora Tristan
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
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Author : Flora Tristan
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1446477118
Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
Author : Michael Lowy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004441603
The central theoretical argument of this book is that Marx's philosophy of praxis - first formulated in the Thesis on Feuerbach - is at the same time the founding stone of a new world view, and the methodological basis for his theory of (proletarian) revolutionary self-emancipation.
Author : Jamieson Ridenhour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0810887770
During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In the late 1830s, London began appearing as a site of literary terror, and by the end of the century a large proportion of the important Victorian "Gothic revival" novels were set in the city: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Three Impostors, The Beetle, Dracula, and many others. In Darkest London is a full-length study of the Victorian Urban Gothic, a pervasive mode that appears not only in straightforward novels of terror like those mentioned above but also in the works of mainstream authors such as Charles Dickens and in the journalism and travel literature of the time. In this volume, author Jamieson Ridenhour looks beyond broad considerations of the Gothic as a historical mode to explore the development of London and the concurrent rise of the Urban Gothic. He also considers very specific aspects of London's representation in these works and draws upon recent and then-contemporary theories, close readings of relevant texts, and cartography to support and expand these ideas. This book examines the work of both canonical and non-canonical authors, including Dickens, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, G.W.M. Reynolds, Richard Marsh, Arthur Machen, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Oscar Wilde. Placing the conventions of the Gothic form in their proper historical context, In Darkest London will appeal to scholars and students interested in an in-depth survey of the Urban Gothic.
Author : Thomas Edward Jordan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887065446
This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786488441
A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Feval, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Donald Cameron.
Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773591850
Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Included are Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Catharine Macauley, Florence Nightingale, Madame de Staƫl and Jane Addams.