Author: Eileen HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Christabel; the Russell Case and After
Author: Eileen HunterThe Spectator
Author: Modern women on trial
Author: Lucy BlandPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847798950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.
Reproduction by Design
Author: Angus McLarenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226560694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Drawing on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and 1930s, this book examines modern science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.
James Coleman
Author: George BakerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262523417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Illustrated critical essays on the work of artist James Coleman. James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently, Coleman has enjoyed relatively little critical attention—in part because of his refusal to comment on his projects or to allow his work to be reconstructed outside of the context of its exhibition.The illustrated essays in this book span the entirety of Coleman's career to date, from his early postminimal and conceptual experiments with memory and perception, through his work in film, video, and narrative in the 1980s, to his current ongoing series of slide projections with voice-over that he calls simply "projected images." Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the debates induced by Coleman's work, the essays discuss issues of subjectivity and identity, nationalism, postcolonialism, memory, spectacle culture, digitalization, and new media. The contributors are Raymond Bellour, Benjamin Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Jean Fisher, Luke Gibbons, Rosalind Krauss, Anne Rorimer, and Kaja Silverman. Written by curators, critics, and scholars and spanning the fields of art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and film theory, the essays attest to the interdisciplinary challenge of Coleman's work.
Alone of All Her Sex
Author: Marina WarnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198718780
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree."
The Times Literary Supplement
Author: Mad Toffs - The British Upper Classes at Their Best and Worst
Author: Patrick ScrivenorPublisher: Metro Publishing
ISBN: 1784188700
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
‘This book is a record of the British upper classes – and a few others – at their best (sometimes their worst), displaying a sort of unhinged blitheness of manner that leads them to say and do strangely unexpected things. It is a quality of innocent insolence, or maybe guileless arrogance, which belongs only to the very rich, the very privileged and the very idle.’ Consider the duke who, on being told by his butler that there was no bread, demanded to know why he had not been brought toast, or the earl whose passion for his good-looking young footmen led to their tinkling with the jewellery he had given them. Or the duke who, when it was tentatively suggested that he might, as an economy, dispense with one of his six chefs – the pastry cook – gazed bleakly at his straitened future and asked plaintively, ‘Can’t a chap have a biscuit?’ Patrick Scrivenor has combed the annals of the British aristocracy to provide an illuminating – and wildly funny – portrait of people who, though often talented in their own fields, courteous and well-meaning, generous and even liberal-minded, none the less display a certain disconnectedness from the realities that tend to afflict the less elevated echelons of society. The result is clear evidence that what many call ‘eccentricity’, the more rational would probably describe as ‘plain bonkers’. Whether you aspire to the upper reaches of the Establishment yourself, or long for the Revolution and the tumbrils carrying the toffs to their horrible fate, this is a book to amuse, delight, mystify, amaze and, occasionally, outrage any reader.
Books and Bookmen
Author: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Rowell-Sarsfield
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.