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Victorian Literature by Victor Shea & William Whitla
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Victor Shea & William Whitla

Edward Lear (1812–88) Born in Highgate near London, Lear was the twentieth of twenty-one children, and was largely raised by his oldest sister Ann when his stockbroker father went bankrupt. ...
( Category: Victorian March 6,2020 )
Good Form by Rosenthal Jesse;
epub |eng | | Author:Rosenthal, Jesse;

A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT Suppose I tell you that I have a Victorian novel for you to read. I have not yet told you who wrote it or what it’s about. ...
( Category: Victorian March 6,2020 )
The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

There was one development, however, which is worth recording. Although they were unable to materialize the images to such an extent as to catch them upon a plate, the girls ...
( Category: Occult March 5,2020 )
The Book And The Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
epub |eng | | Author:Iris Murdoch

' There is nothing.' After a moment's silence Rose said, 'Will he come straight back after he leaves?' ‘Will who come straight back after he leaves where?' ‘Will Crimond come ...
( Category: Surrealism March 5,2020 )
The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar
epub |eng | 1979-03-03 | Author:Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar

Jane’s first meeting with Rochester is a fairytale meeting. Charlotte Brontë deliberately stresses mythic elements: an icy twilight setting out of Coleridge or Fuseli, a rising moon, a great “lion-like” ...
( Category: European March 4,2020 )
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:John Thomson

1 See p.47. COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS. HE number of persons who obtain out-door or street work at Covent Garden Market is so considerable that it is necessary to devote more ...
( Category: Victorian March 2,2020 )
Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Iris Murdoch

Essay in Yale Review, December 1959. Against Dryness The complaints which I wish to make are concerned primarily with prose, not with poetry, and primarily with novels, not with drama; ...
( Category: Victorian February 27,2020 )
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Rachel Vorona Cote

We don’t often read about Victorian women’s substance abuse, and with good reason. In the nineteenth century, a temperance movement loomed large in Great Britain. Men who drank were considered ...
( Category: Women February 26,2020 )
Conversations with Wilde by Merlin Holland
epub |eng | | Author:Merlin Holland

A FATAL FRIENDSHIP Contrary to appearances, the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas was not that of an older man leading a younger man astray. Douglas, the third ...
( Category: Victorian February 26,2020 )
The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas
epub |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Janine Barchas

CHAPTER 4 SELLING WITH PAINTINGS A Curious History of the Cheap Prestige Reprint The most ubiquitous visual marker of modern literary prestige—the signal that a book is a weighty literary ...
( Category: Victorian February 23,2020 )
Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:David S. Reynolds [Reynolds, David S.]

The tensions between liberty and power, states’ rights and union, are here resolved by an “I” who proclaims both individuality and total equality with others. In the aftermath of Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: American Civil War February 15,2020 )
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Graham Greene

Chapter 11 AFTER HE LEFT me, Martins went straight off to drink himself silly. He chose the Oriental to do it in, the dreary smoky little night club that stands ...
( Category: Murder February 14,2020 )
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-10 | Author:Simon Goldhill [Goldhill, Simon]

His use of the word “simply” conceals a very complex legal and social set of problems, however (let alone his opportunistic homophobia). What acts will count with women? How will ...
( Category: European February 6,2020 )
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Nicholas Frankel

However, there are good reasons for questioning the veracity of Wilde’s account. Relations with Ross had been tense at best where Douglas was concerned. More to the point, having separated ...
( Category: Victorian January 19,2020 )
Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy by Yopie Prins
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Yopie Prins [Prins, Yopie]

3.7 Scene from Electra, Senior Dramatics, Smith College, 1889. Creator unknown. College Archives, Smith College (Northampton, MA). Much as Jebb had inspired the women at Girton to translate their impression ...
( Category: Women January 19,2020 )

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