Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041707847
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041707847
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.
Nineteenth-century Photography
Author: William JohnsonPublisher: Hall Reference Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
John Payne Collier
Author: Arthur FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1543
Book Description
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
Author: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
Author: California Academy of SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
"Catalogue of the Library to January 1, 1889," 91 p., appended to 2d ser., v. 1; "Additions" in 2d ser., v. 2-3.
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences
Author: Spectacle of Deformity
Author: Nadja DurbachPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520944895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's "missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British—at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities.