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  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

    Edición de Kerry Powell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the frame of Victorian and Edwardian culture as a whole. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde in Context

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

    Edición de Peter Raby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

    de Paul Fortunato ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries.Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women’s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Theatre Criticism

    de Irving Wardle ...
    'You have discovered a perishable treasure, and it is imperative to share it with other people before it fades... You have only one chance to get it right, while the impression is still fresh...'If critics often disagree among themselves over the merits of a given work, this is nothing compared to the wider argument about what the critic's role should be - Objective judge? Consumer guide? ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • J.B. Priestley

    de Maggie B. Gale ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Making of English Popular Culture

    Edición de John Storey ...
    Series series Directions in Cultural History
    The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830

    de Daniel O'Quinn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume 1

    1900-1929

    Edición de Clive Bloom ...
    The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, cultural and artistic context. It identifies the crucial, interwoven relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, cinema, music and radio. Much factual detail and a ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • A Preface to Oscar Wilde

    de Anne Varty ...
    Series series Preface Books
    A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895, and detailed accounts of Wilde's lesser known works such as his poetry, journalism and letters are also presented. The first section places his work ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD