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“jacky bratton”

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  • The Making of the West End Stage

    Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

    by Jacky Bratton ...
    All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Women and Comedy

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Jacky Bratton, Gilli Bush-Bailey, Lisa Colletta, Joanne Gilbert, Barbara Gold, Tarez Samra Graban, Shannon Hengen, Kirsty Johnston, Joanna Mansbridge, Linda A. Morris, Dolores O’Higgins, Lisa Perfetti, Kay Young, Regina Barreca ...
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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    At Home in Georgian England

    by Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    by Judith Flanders ...
    "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Jack The Ripper and the East End

    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd

    by 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, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Bachelors of a different sort

    Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

    by John Potvin ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    by Rosalind Crone ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series 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, ... Read more

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  • Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London

    by Judith Walkowitz ...
    London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde in Context

    Edited by Kerry Powell, Peter Raby ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of concise and illuminating articles reveals the complex relationship between Wilde's work and ideas, and contemporary contexts including Victorian feminism, aestheticism and socialism. Chapters investigate ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Understanding Fashion History

    by Valerie Cumming ...
    The generous reception given to Understanding Fashion History when it was first published in 2004 recognised it as a timely reappraisal of the role of fashion and its place in society. The book introduces the reader to the ways fashionable dress has been defined and studied since the late 17th century, considering the theories that surround the subject, the assembling and use of collections of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD