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Victorian Secrecy
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Author : Denise Tischler Millstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
Victorian Secrecy written by Denise Tischler Millstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John Henry Newman's autobiographical novel Loss and Gain, Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, modes of detection in Bleak House, the secret history of Harriet Martineau's role in the repeal of the Corn Law, and Victorian stage magicians. Taken together, the essays provide a richly textured account of which modes of hiding and revealing articulate secrets in Victorian literature and culture; how social relations are formed and reformed in relationship to secrecy; and what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.
Victorian Secrecy
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Author : Denise Tischler Millstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Victorian Secrecy written by Denise Tischler Millstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Electronic books categories.
Secrecy And Disclosure In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Leila Silvana May
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Secrecy And Disclosure In Victorian Fiction written by Leila Silvana May and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered? These are some of the questions Leila May poses in her study of the dynamics of secrecy and disclosure in fiction from Queen Victoria's coronation to the century's end. May argues that the works of writers such as Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Arthur Conan Doyle reflect a distinctly Victorian obsession with the veiling and unveiling of information. She argues that there are two opposing vectors in Victorian culture concerning secrecy and subjectivity, one presupposing a form of radical Cartesian selfhood always remaining a secret to other selves and another showing that nothing can be hidden from the trained eye. (May calls the relation between these clashing tendencies the "dialectics" of secrecy and disclosure.) May's theories of secrecy and disclosure are informed by the work of twentieth-century social scientists. She emphasizes Georg Simmel's thesis that sociality and subjectivity are impossible without secrecy and Erving Goffman's claim that sociality can be understood in terms of performativity, "the presentation of the self in everyday life," and his revelation that performance always involves disguise, hence secrecy. May's study offers convincing evidence that secrecy and duplicity, in contrast to the Victorian period's emphasis on honesty and earnestness, emerged in response to the social pressures of class, gender, monarchy, and empire, and were key factors in producing both the subjectivity and the sociality that we now recognize as Victorian.
Victorian Secrets And Scandals
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Author : Brian Williams
language : en
Publisher: Pitkin
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Victorian Secrets And Scandals written by Brian Williams and has been published by Pitkin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with History categories.
What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to ‘secrets’, and what was meant by a ‘scandal’. The series uncovers revelations of infidelity, murder, poisonings and corruption. In the context of Victorian propriety the tales in this book are even more startling. Detailing scandalous celebrities and poor ‘unfortunates’. From those upstairs and down, to those dwelling in the slums, they all sampled the same pleasures and sometimes met the same ghastly fate, and the new defamatory popular press gleefully printed the most lurid tales.
Secret Commissions
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Author : Stephen Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2012-09-12
Secret Commissions written by Stephen Donovan and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-12 with Literary Collections categories.
Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the light of day. Even today their exposure has the power to shock. As one investigator promised, “The Report of our Secret Commission will be read to-day with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world.” Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism. Their authors range from well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry Mayhew, and W.T. Stead to now-forgotten names such as Hugh Shimmin, Elizabeth Banks, and Olive Malvery. Collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style “muckraking.” The reports address topics as varied as child abuse, animal cruelty, juvenile prostitution, sweat-shops, slums, gypsies, abortion, infanticide, and other controversial social issues. The collection features detailed chapter introductions, original illustrations, a historical overview of investigative reporting in the nineteenth-century press, and suggestions for further reading.
Victorian Secrets
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Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Victorian Secrets written by Sarah A. Chrisman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On Sarah A. Chrisman’s twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but her mind immediately filled with unwelcome views. Although she had been in love with the Victorian era all her life, she had specifically asked her husband not to buy her a corset—ever. She’d heard how corsets affected the female body and what they represented, and she wanted none of it. However, Chrisman agreed to try on the garment . . . and found it surprisingly enjoyable. The corset, she realized, was a tool of empowerment—not oppression. After a year of wearing a corset on a daily basis, her waist had gone from thirty-two inches to twenty-two inches, she was experiencing fewer migraines, and her posture improved. She had successfully transformed her body, her dress, and her lifestyle into that of a Victorian woman—and everyone was asking about it. In Victorian Secrets, Chrisman explains how a garment from the past led to a change in not only the way she viewed herself, but also the ways she understood the major differences between the cultures of twenty-first-century and nineteenth-century America. The desire to delve further into the Victorian lifestyle provided Chrisman with new insight into issues of body image and how women, past and present, have seen and continue to see themselves.
Victorian Secret Collection Tp
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Author : Ben Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Release Date : 2013-06-04
Victorian Secret Collection Tp written by Ben Dunn and has been published by Antarctic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Graphic novels categories.
Consists entirely of art originally published in the graphic novels Victorian secret, Victorian secret summer catalog, Victorian secret winter wardrobe, Victorian secret masquerade, and Victorian secret agents.
Secret Victorians
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Author : Melissa E. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Secret Victorians written by Melissa E. Feldman and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
Work by contemporary artists from the U.S. and the U.K. that evokes a Victorian sensibility. The essays look at parallels between the two periods: turn-of-the-century anxiety, intellectual curiosity, consumerism, a preoccupation with sex and morality, an infatuation with new technology.
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 Science 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 Secret Agents Steampunk Angels 1 2012
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Author : Brian Denham
language : en
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Victorian Secret Agents Steampunk Angels 1 2012 written by Brian Denham and has been published by Antarctic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Once upon a time, there were several refined ladies who went to the finest finishing schools, and they were all assigned very dull duties in high society...but I took them away from all that, and now they work for me. Now they live lives of high adventure, engaging in derring-do and delicious (but discreet) dalliances, always seeing that justice is done...in sensual secrecy.