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Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Private Theatricals Etc
Author: The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Theatricality of the Closet
Author: Michelle Liu CarrigerPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081014591X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A richly illustrated exploration of fashion and its capacity for generating controversy and constructing social and individual identities Clothing matters. This basic axiom is both common sense and, in another way, radical. It is from this starting point that Michelle Liu Carriger elucidates the interconnected ways in which gender, sexuality, class, and race are created by the everyday act of getting dressed. Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance, and Subjectivity between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity. By interrogating a set of seemingly disparate examples from the same period but widely distant settings—Victorian Britain and Meiji-era Japan—Carriger disentangles how small, local, ordinary practices became enmeshed in a global fabric of cultural and material surfaces following the opening of trade between these nations in 1850. This richly illustrated book presents an array of media, from conservative newspapers and tabloids to ukiyo-e and early photography, that locate dress as a site where the individual and the social are interwoven, whether in the 1860s and 1870s or the twenty-first century.
A Voice from the Attic
Author: Robertson DaviesPublisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 079535231X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A collection of essays “filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica” from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal). An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called “America’s attic,” speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson Davies ranges through the world of letters—books renowned and obscure, old and recent; English, Irish, Canadian, and American writers both forgotten and fondly remembered. “Sweet reason in the raiment of well-woven prose? Most assuredly. Good humor agraze over broad literary demesnes? No doubt of it. Forgotten popular favorites rescued and rehabilitated? Certainly. A parade of agreeable prejudices? He would not be a true Canadian if he did not have them. Lightheartedness where needed? Yes. Seriousness where it counts? Yes. Wit, satirical touches, firm indignations, sound sense, good taste, judiciousness, cosmopolitan breadth of view, urbanity, sanity, unexpected eccentricities, educated humanism? By all means. It is indeed by all these means and more that this book of essays and observations bestows its multiple benefactions, and anyone picking it up is bound north to pleasure and profit.”—The New York Times
Bulletin
Author: New Haven Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Players of the Period
Author: Arthur GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914
Author: The Circus and Victorian Society
Author: Brenda AssaelPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This conflict informs us not only of the complicated role that the circus played in Victorian society but provides a unique view into a collective psyche fraught by contradiction and anxiety.
The English Catalogue of Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description