Author: Bertram MitfordPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040492499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt
Author: Bertram MitfordPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040492499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Renshaw Fanning's Quest
Author: Bertram MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Renshaw Fanning's Quest, a Tale of the Hight Veldt
Author: Bertram MitfordPublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Empire of Diamonds
Author: Adrienne MunichPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds. Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empire’s prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the era’s most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomon’s Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination. Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence cross the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914
Author: Jane FordPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040097855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885–1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest – metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual, and exploitative basis of relations between nations, institutions, sexes, and people in a fin-de-siècle economy that was perceived by many as outwardly belligerent. More specifically, this book is about the vampire, cannibal, and related genera of economic metaphor that penetrate the major discourses of the period in ways that have yet to be understood. In chapters that examine socialist fiction and newspapers; the imperial quest romance; the decadent and supernatural tales of Henry James and Vernon Lee; and the Catholic novels of Lucas Malet, Ford assesses the breadth and variety of these metaphors, and considers how they filter the long-standing philosophical ideas about self-interest and the conflictual ‘economic man’. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of fin-de-siècle literature and culture as well as those with an interest in the relationship between literature, economics, and anti-capitalist movements.
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description