Author: Manchester Athenaeum (Manchester, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Addresses, 1835-1885, Also, Report of Proceedings of the Meeting of the Members in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Institution, October 28th, 1885
Author: Manchester Athenaeum (Manchester, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lecturing the Victorians
Author: Anne B. RodrickPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350299472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, cities and towns across England used the popular lecture for purposes ranging from serious education to effervescent entertainment and from regional pride to imperial belonging. Over time, the popular lecture became the quintessential embodiment of Victorian knowledge-based culture, which itself ranged from the production of new knowledge in the most elite of learned societies to the consumption of established knowledge in middle-class clubs and the hundreds of humble mechanics' institutions initially founded to provide scientific instruction to workers. What did the “average” Victorian talk and think about? How did the knowledge-based culture of lecture and debate enable men and women to demonstrate both civic engagement and cultural competence? How does this knowledge-based culture and its changing expression give us ways to look at Victorian citizenship long before the extension of the franchise? With engaging and accessible prose Anne Rodrick draws from a variety of primary sources to provide fascinating answers to these pertinent questions. Based on the analysis of several thousand lectures and debates delivered over more than 50 years, this book digs deeply into what those individuals below the most elite levels thought, heard, debated, and claimed as a badge of cultural competence. By the turn of the 20th century, the popular lecture was competing for attention with new institutions of leisure and of higher education, and the discourse surrounding its place in contemporary England helps illuminate important debates over access to and deployment of knowledge and culture.
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851
Author: Charlotte BrontëPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198185987
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
In this volume we share Charlotte Bronte's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte in September andEmily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with MrsGaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.
The Renowned Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Thomas HattonAn Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Joseph WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Early Feminists
Author: Kathryn GleadlePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349265829
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by bringing to light a wealth of unused sources, demonstrates that a vibrant community existed during the 1830s and 1840s. Previously neglected, this remarkable group of writers and reformers established both the ideologies and personnel network which provided the foundations of the women's rights campaigns of the coming decades.
Liverpool Prints and Documents
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States ... August 31, 1919
Author: Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia
Author: SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900447434X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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