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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
Author: Guide to Reprints
Author: Albert James DiazPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Idiot
Author: Fyodor DostoevskyPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425041825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Originally written in Russian language, The Idiot is a unique masterpiece. Dostoevsky has depicted a good man, Prince Myshkin, who is trapped in the cruel and wild Petersburg society that is obsessed with avarice, power and manipulation. It is a story of conflicting emotions of love and hatred, friendship and hostility etc. Appealing!...
I Hope I Don't Intrude
Author: David VincentPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191038148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society
Author: Texas Archeological SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Author: Maurer MaurerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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