Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Paperback - Jennifer Schacker

In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire ...

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their d...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

DescriptionJennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nin...

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this collection of stories has been selected by English teachers for its appeal to Key Stage 4 ...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Coverin...

Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thinking and to its effects...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War weaves together political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Reducere. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Paperback

Gene's life resembles a debutante's dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female. She als...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...

In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach to understanding one of ...

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cul...

An accessible introduction to the key trends in nineteenth-century thought within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and t...

This is a practical guide for people who find themselves involved in putting a pantomime on stage, particularly for those working on limited budget...

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .Illustrations:...

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literac...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and t...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jo EllisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 13Cover ...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Neil ThomasIllustration(s): 12 black and white tactical maps & 32 colour photographsNumber of pages: 208...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on...

Reducere. The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This stud...

Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music his...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introducti...

This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field the history of letters and letter writing is essential reading for anyone in...

This provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900. McWilliam assesses popular ideology and ...

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, ma...

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textur...