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Author: Jeremy Nicholas Publisher: ISBN: 9780316875875 Category : Curiosities and wonders Languages : en Pages : 216
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A collection of extraordinary facts taken from Don Lemon's 1894 Everybody's Scrapbook of Curious Facts - A Book for Odd Moments. The reader can learn about a variety of subjects including famous noses, how to tell a person's age and which is the best day day to cut toe-nails.
Author: Jeremy Nicholas Publisher: ISBN: 9780316875875 Category : Curiosities and wonders Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
A collection of extraordinary facts taken from Don Lemon's 1894 Everybody's Scrapbook of Curious Facts - A Book for Odd Moments. The reader can learn about a variety of subjects including famous noses, how to tell a person's age and which is the best day day to cut toe-nails.
Author: Melanie Cossey Publisher: Fitzroy Books ISBN: 9781947548008 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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An anthropology professor, Duncan Clarke, stumbles upon the travel journal of a Victorian curiosity dealer that describes a victim of a Haitian witch doctor. Clarke's holiday pastime becomes an all-consuming obsession as he seeks to understand the chilling implications of the journal and the horrifying way in which his own life is tied to the past
Author: Helen Amy Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445695383 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 339
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A portrait of London and its people - from the richest to the poorest - when it was the world's greatest and most quickly expanding city.
Author: Brenda Assael Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813923406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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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.
Author: Jen Harrison Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131710465X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 227
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What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.
Author: Saverio Tomaiuolo Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319969501 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 259
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This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways in which the Victorian age has been revised by contemporary authors does not only entail analogies with the present but proves – by introducing what is perhaps a more pertinent description of the nineteenth century – that it was much more ‘deviant’ than it is usually depicted and perceived. Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Canon, Transgression, Innovation explores a wide variety of textual forms, from novels to TV series, from movies and graphic novels to visual art. The scholarly and educational purpose of this study is to stimulate readers to approach neo-Victorianism as a complex cultural phenomenon.
Author: Gerry Bailey Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778736974 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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The queen's diamond is the next big find for Digby and his sister at Mr. Rummage's market stall. Such a find has the vendor telling the children a wonderfully engaging story about England's most famous monarch. Easy-to-follow text will engage even the most hesitant readers.
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