Author: Pierce EganPublisher:
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Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Life in London
Author: Pierce EganPublisher:
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Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English
Author: Ian OusbyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Derived from the parent Guide to Literature in English, this volume offers in concise form over 4,000 entries on literature in English from cultures throughout the world. Writers and major works from the UK and the USA are represented, as are those from Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, India, and Africa. The coverage is broad - from the classics of English literature to the best of modern writing. Additionally, the Guide has a wealth of entries on literary movements, groups or schools in literature and criticism, literary magazines, genres and sub-genres, critical concepts, and rhetorical terms.
John O'London's Weekly
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
Author: General View of the Agriculture of the County of Worcester, with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement
Author: Board of Agriculture (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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A Dictionary of the Law of Elections
Author: Professional gentlemanPublisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Haunted City
Author: Christian DuCombPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123017
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race. Mummers have long worn blackface makeup during winter holiday celebrations in Europe and North America; in Philadelphia, mummers’ blackface persisted from the colonial period well into the twentieth century. The first annual Mummers Parade, a publicly sanctioned procession from the working-class neighborhoods of South Philadelphia to the city center, occurred in 1901. Despite a ban on blackface in the Mummers Parade after civil rights protests in 1963–64, other forms of racial and ethnic impersonation in the parade have continued to flourish unchecked. Haunted City combines detailed historical research with the author’s own experiences performing in the Mummers Parade to create a lively and richly illustrated narrative. Through its interdisciplinary approach, Haunted City addresses not only theater history and performance studies but also folklore, American studies, critical race theory, and art history. It also offers a fresh take on the historiography of the antebellum minstrel show.