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  • The ?s 4 Us

    af KDM ...
    The ?'s 4 Us is a collection of poetry that I hope will cause us to question what is going on in our world. Everything from world events to emotional issues are covered. It's a mixture of seriousness and lightheartedness that comes from various experiences. It's not for the faint of heart and language sensitive. Ok so a few F-Bombs are dropped in it but, the language used... comes from the raw ... Læs mere

    8,02 kr.

  • Spirits of Community

    English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000

    Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – ... Læs mere

    353,18 kr.

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  • The Uses of Literacy

    Aspects of Working-Class Life

    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good?When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • London Fog

    The Biography

    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Telegraph Editor’s ChoiceAn Evening Standard “Best Books about London” SelectionIn popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their ... Læs mere

    156,74 kr.

  • Jack The Ripper and the East End

    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd

    af Various ...
    In 1888, Whitechapel - at the heart of the inner East End - was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets and alleys were seen as violent and dangerous, overflowing with poverty and depravity. This book aims to uncover the reality of East End life. Sections look at slum housing, immigration, attitudes to women, poverty, ... Læs mere

    215,17 kr.

  • Privacy

    A Short History

    af David Vincent ...
    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Læs mere

    170,11 kr.

  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western nation's obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Læs mere

    137,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

    af Jonathan Rose ...
    This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.“An ... Læs mere

    176,39 kr.

  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    af Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Redigeret af Francis O'Gorman ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Læs mere

    280,62 kr.

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... Læs mere

    183,74 kr.

  • The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

    af Karl Bell ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a ... Læs mere

    170,36 kr.