|
Showing 1 - 8 of
8 matches in All Departments
From the creators of the UK's bestselling Law Express revision
series. Maximise your marks for every answer you write with Law
Express Question and Answer. This series is designed to help you
understand what examiners are looking for, focus on the question
being asked and make even a strong answer stand out.
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The
concept of ‘generations’ has become a widely discussed area,
with recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic revealing our
dependence on intergenerational relationships both within and
beyond the family. However, the concept can often be misunderstood,
which can fuel divisions between age groups rather than generating
solutions. This collection introduces and explores the growing
field of generational studies, providing a comprehensive overview
of its strengths and limitations. With contributions from academics
across a range of disciplines, the book showcases the concept’s
interdisciplinary potential by applying a generational lens to
fields including sociology, literature, history, psychology, media
studies and politics. Offering fresh perspectives, this original
collection is a valuable addition to the field, opening new avenues
for generational thinking.
The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and
displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of
things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for
those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the
Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia.
This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their
materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian;
which objects defined them, represented them, were uniquely theirs;
and how reading the Victorians, through their possessions, can
deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. Miscellaneous and
often auxiliary, paraphernalia becomes the 'disjecta' of everyday
life, deemed neither valuable enough for museums nor symbolic
enough for purely literary study. This interdisciplinary collection
looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up
the background of Victorian life: Valentine's cards, fish tanks,
sugar plums, china ornaments, hair ribbons, dresses and more.
Contributors also, however, consider how we use Victorian objects
to construct the Victorian today; museum spaces, the relation of
Victorian text to object, and our reading - or gazing at -
Victorian advertisements out of context on searchable online
databases. Responding to thing theory and modern scholarship on
Victorian material culture, this book addresses five key concerns
of Victorian materiality: collecting; defining class in the home;
objects becoming things; objects to texts; objects in circulation
through print culture.
The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and
displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of
things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for
those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the
Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia.
This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their
materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian;
which objects defined them, represented them, were uniquely theirs;
and how reading the Victorians, through their possessions, can
deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. Miscellaneous and
often auxiliary, paraphernalia becomes the 'disjecta' of everyday
life, deemed neither valuable enough for museums nor symbolic
enough for purely literary study. This interdisciplinary collection
looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up
the background of Victorian life: Valentine's cards, fish tanks,
sugar plums, china ornaments, hair ribbons, dresses and more.
Contributors also, however, consider how we use Victorian objects
to construct the Victorian today; museum spaces, the relation of
Victorian text to object, and our reading - or gazing at -
Victorian advertisements out of context on searchable online
databases. Responding to thing theory and modern scholarship on
Victorian material culture, this book addresses five key concerns
of Victorian materiality: collecting; defining class in the home;
objects becoming things; objects to texts; objects in circulation
through print culture.
This book explains why narrating the recent past is always
challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the
nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the
professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the
growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book
brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these
parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history
writing in divergent ways. Many historians shrank from engaging
with controversial recent events. This study showcases the work of
those rare historians who defied convention, including the polymath
Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J. R. Green, and liberal
enthusiast Spencer Walpole. A striking number of popular Victorian
novels are retrospective. This book argues that Charlotte Bronte,
Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's "novels of the recent past"
are long overdue recognition as genuinely historical novels. By
focusing on provincial communities, these novelists reveal
undercurrents invisible to national narratives, and intervene in
debates about women's contribution to history.
This book explains why narrating the recent past is always
challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the
nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the
professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the
growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book
brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these
parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history
writing in divergent ways. Many historians shrank from engaging
with controversial recent events. This study showcases the work of
those rare historians who defied convention, including the polymath
Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J. R. Green, and liberal
enthusiast Spencer Walpole. A striking number of popular Victorian
novels are retrospective. This book argues that Charlotte Bronte,
Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's "novels of the recent past"
are long overdue recognition as genuinely historical novels. By
focusing on provincial communities, these novelists reveal
undercurrents invisible to national narratives, and intervene in
debates about women's contribution to history.
This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with
the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers,
artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of
contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing
conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation.
Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present
moment, but took very different approaches. This book shows that
panoramas (360 Degrees views previously associated with the
Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously
associated with the Victorian fin de siecle) are intertwined,
relevant across the entire century, and often remediated, making
them crucial lenses through which to view a broad range of genre
and forms. It brings together interdisciplinary research materials
belonging to different period silos to create new understandings of
how nineteenth-century audiences dealt with information overload.
It argues for a new politics of distance: one that recognizes the
value of immersing oneself in a situation, event or phenomenon, but
which also does not chastise us for trying to see the big picture.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars of
nineteenth-century literature, history, visual culture and
information studies.
|
The Carrier (DVD)
Karen Bryson, Jack Gordon, Edmund Kingsley, Josie Taylor, Joe Dixon, …
|
R111
Discovery Miles 1 110
|
Out of stock
|
Action adventure from film-maker Anthony Woodley. In England, where
an antibiotic-resistant pandemic is devastating the country, the
only hope of surviving is to flee the land on a battered airplane.
A group of survivors fight it out to stake their claim for a seat,
but as tensions rise it becomes obvious that they are in as much
danger from each other as the rapidly spreading disease. The cast
includes Karen Bryson, Jack Gordon, Edmund Kingsley and Josie
Taylor.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|