Author: Albert SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Natural History of "stuck-up" People
Author: Albert SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Natural History of "stuck-up" People
Author: Albert SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
'Stuck-up' people
Author: Albert Richard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Sketches of the day. (The flirt, Evening parties, Stuck-up people).
Author: Albert Richard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Novelty fair
Author: Jo BriggsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition.
The Natural History of the Gent
Author: Albert SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Flâneur Abroad
Author: Richard WrigleyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869813
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This volume offers new perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history – the flâneur. Recent writing on the flâneur has given little sustained attention to the widespread adaptation of the flâneur outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the form of historic antecedents, modern sequels, or contemporary echoes. Yet it is clear that the allure of the flâneur’s persona has led to its translation and adoption far beyond Parisian boulevards and passages, and this in different media and literary genres. This volume maps some of the flâneur’s travels and transpositions. How far the flâneur is dependent on Paris as a milieu is opened up for questioning: for all the international dispersal of this idea and model, in some sense Paris is always present, if only as a reference to kick against or replace. When modern flâneurs step out in foreign cities, how much of a Parisian ethos clings to them, however they might claim independence? Cities which provide counterpoints to Paris discussed here are Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Le Havre, London, Madrid, New York, Prague, and St Petersburg. This internationalised view also reconsiders the nature of the flâneur, and revises stereotypes based on Walter Benjamin’s account of Baudelaire. Another key feature is the chapters which analyse the flâneur in terms of visual representations, whether graphic illustration, streetscapes, urban design, cinema, or album covers (related to musical examples from the 1950s to the present).
The Cockney Who Sold the Alps
Author: McNee, AlanPublisher: Victorian Secrets Limited
ISBN: 1906469520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you’ve probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London’s Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as “inimitable”, an epithet Smith’s contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens’s affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired ‘Mont Blanc mania’, encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Creative Writing and Art History
Author: Catherine GrantPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444350390
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art. Considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing Covers a diverse subject matter, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert The collection both contains essays that survey the topic as well as more specialist articles Brings together specialist contributors from both sides of the Atlantic