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Sensational Victoria
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Author : Eve Lazarus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Sensational Victoria written by Eve Lazarus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Victoria (B.C.) categories.
The follow-up to Eve Lazarus's successful 'At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes', 'Sensational Victoria' gives us a glimpse into aspects of Victoria rarely talked about in the tourist brochures or flowery garden guidebooks. 'Sensational Victoria' covers legendary women, including Emily Carr, Nellie McClung, Gwen Cash, Sylvia Holland, and Myfanwy Pavelic; prominent madams and their brothels; murders in the capital-five ranging from 1898 to 1992; and, the homes of limners (painters of ornamental decoration), writers, and entertainers, including Herbert Siebner, Elza Mayhew, Pat Martin Bates, Robin Skelton, Carole Sabiston, Bruce Hutchison, Alice Munro, David Foster, Spoony Sundher, and Nell Shipman. Lavishly illustrated throughout with archival and contemporary photographs, 'Sensational Victoria' is a must-read for both history buffs and regular visitors to The Garden City."This has already been a stellar year for books about localhistory. If you're still looking for a gift, there are more than a dozen top-quality choices on the shelves, from books on Victoria City Hall and the University of Victoria to ones on the Japanese community and Government Street. This late arrival, 'Sensational Victoria', is one of the year's best."- 'Times Colonist (Victoria)'
Victorian Sensation
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Author : Michael Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2004
Victorian Sensation written by Michael Diamond and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
Victoria Wide
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Author : Ken Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-01
Victoria Wide written by Ken Duncan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01 with Victoria categories.
Sensational Victorian
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Author : Robert Lee Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Facsimiles-Garl
Release Date : 1979
Sensational Victorian written by Robert Lee Wolff and has been published by Facsimiles-Garl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Victorian Sensation
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Author : James A. Secord
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-09-20
Victorian Sensation written by James A. Secord and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-20 with Religion categories.
Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Victorian Sensational Fiction
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Author : Richard Fantina
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2010-01-29
Victorian Sensational Fiction written by Richard Fantina and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-29 with Fiction categories.
Sensation fiction emerged in the 1860s, and immediately generated alarm as many critics viewed the genre as a threat to prevailing Victorian values. Charles Reade, along with Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, was among the most well-known sensation novelists. With its explicit critique of power relations in the fields of medicine, criminal justice, and sexual mores, Reade’s work anticipates Michel Foucault’s theories elaborated a century later. Reade’s work also provides rare glimpses of alternative sexualities and gender identities in nineteenth-century fiction. This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.
Neo Victorianism And Sensation Fiction
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Author : Jessica Cox
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Neo Victorianism And Sensation Fiction written by Jessica Cox and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
Victorian Crime Madness And Sensation
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Author : Andrew Maunder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Victorian Crime Madness And Sensation written by Andrew Maunder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'. The essays, which draw on both canonical and liminal texts, examine the Victorian fascination with criminal psychology and pathology, engaging with real life cases alongside fictional accounts by writers as diverse as Ainsworth, Stevenson, and Stoker. Among the topics are shifting definitions of criminality and the ways in which discourses surrounding crime changed during the nineteenth century, the literal and social criminalization of particular sex acts, and the gendering of degeneration and insanity. As fascinated as they were with criminality, the Victorians were equally concerned with solving crime, and this collection also focuses on the forces of law enforcement and nineteenth-century attempts to "read" the criminal body as revealed in Victorian crime fiction and reportage. Contributors engage with the detective figure and his growing professionalization, while examining the role of science and technology - both at home and in the Empire - in solving cases.
Moulding The Female Body In Victorian Fairy Tales And Sensation Novels
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Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Moulding The Female Body In Victorian Fairy Tales And Sensation Novels written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.
Free Preview Of Temptation Island This Year S Sensational Summer Read
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Author : Victoria Fox
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-06-15
Free Preview Of Temptation Island This Year S Sensational Summer Read written by Victoria Fox and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-15 with Fiction categories.
Sensational, scandalous, sinfully good - enjoy a FREE sample of Victoria Fox’s Temptation Island. Victoria invites you to spend this summer in paradise. Sit back, grab a cocktail and step into temptation... Fame. Money. Success. Lori wants them – Aurora is being destroyed by them, and Stevie’s got them at her best friend’s expense. These three women are drawn unwittingly to the shores of Temptation Island, all looking for their own truth. But they discover a secret so shocking – there’s no turning back. It’s wicked, it’s sensational. Are you ready to be told? But the glittering waters drown dark secrets. The island promises the one thing money can’t buy - and the price is devastating... Praise for Victoria Fox ‘...giving Jackie Collins a run for her money’ - That’s Life ‘...perfect for the beach’ – The Sun