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The ArtsMay 2003Scotland and the music hall, 1850–1914
by Paul Maloney, Jeffrey Richards
Music hall reflected the lifestyles and preoccupations of working people in a way that only television in the modern era has done since. While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanisation. This book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It explores issues of national identity in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2021Crafting identities
Artisan culture in London, c. 1550–1640
by Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Christopher Breward, James Ryan
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual and political status of London's crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Through examination of a wide range of manuscript, visual and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London's artisans physically shaped the built environment of the city and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces impacted directly on their distinctive individual and collective identities. Applying an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology to the examination of artisanal cultures, the book engages with the fields of social and cultural history and the histories of art, design and architecture. It will appeal to scholars of early modern social, cultural and urban history, as well as those interested in design and architectural history.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2016The World and other unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall
by Jana Funke
This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. These new materials significantly broaden and complicate critical views of Hall's writings. They demonstrate the stylistic and thematic range of her work and cover diverse topics, including 'outsiderism', gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, the supernatural and the First World War. Together, these texts shed a new light on unrecognised or misunderstood aspects of Hall's intellectual world. The volume also contains a substantial introduction, which situates Hall's unpublished writings in the broader context of her life and work. Overall, the book invites a critical reassessment of Hall's place in early twentieth-century literature and culture and offers rich possibilities for teaching and future research. It will be of interest to scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of English literature, modernism, women's writing, and gender and sexuality studies, and to general readers. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Acts of supremacy
by J. Bratton, Richard Cave, Brendan Gregory, Michael Pickering
Imperialist discourse interacted with regional and class discourses. Imperialism's incorporation of Welsh, Scots and Irish identities, was both necessary to its own success and one of its most powerful functions in terms of the control of British society. Most cultures have a place for the concept of heroism, and for the heroic figure in narrative fiction; stage heroes are part of the drama's definition of self, the exploration and understanding of personal identity. Theatrical and quasi-theatrical presentations, whether in music hall, clubroom, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre or the streets and ceremonial spaces of the capital, contributed to that much-discussed national mood. This book examines the theatre as the locus for nineteenth century discourses of power and the use of stereotype in productions of the Shakespearean history canon. It discusses the development of the working class and naval hero myth of Jack Tar, the portrayal of Ireland and the Irish, and the portrayal of British India on the spectacular exhibition stage. The racial implications of the ubiquitous black-face minstrelsy are focused upon. The ideology cluster which made up the imperial mindset had the capacity to re-arrange and re-interpret history and to influence the portrayal of the tragic or comic potential of personal dilemmas. Though the British may have prided themselves on having preceded America in the abolition of slavery and thus outpacing Brother Jonathan in humanitarian philanthropy, abnegation of hierarchisation and the acceptance of equality of status between black and white ethnic groups was not part of that achievement.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2017The Pianoplayers
by Anthony Burgess
by Will Carr, Paul Wake, Andrew Biswell
This novel is one of Anthony Burgess's most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The Pianoplayers is a funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this is an authoritative text for a new generation of readers. Part of the forthcoming Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess, this book offers an opportunity to reappraise an unjustly neglected novel important to our understanding of Burgess's wider oeuvre. The 2017 Burgess centenary makes this a key moment for reflection on the life and work of a major figure in twentieth century letters.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2000Cultures of Empire
A reader
by Catherine Hall, Meg Davies
Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasising concepts and approaches; the colonisers 'at home', focusing on how empire was lived in Britain; and 'away' - the attempt to construct new cultures through which the colonisers defined themselves and others in varied colonial sites. A useful guide to recent scholarship on the culture of imperialism. ;
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 1905Alaska Days with John Muir
by Samuel Hall Young
Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In "Alaska Days With John Muir" he describes this 1879 meeting: "A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings." This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. Despite the pleas of his missionary colleagues that he not risk life and limb with "that wild Muir," Young accompanied Muir in the exploration of Glacier Bay. Upon Muir's return to Alaska in 1880, they traveled together and mapped the inside route to Sitka. Young describes Muir's ability to "slide" up glaciers, the broad Scotch he used when he was enjoying himself, and his natural affinity for Indian wisdom and theistic religion. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story "Stickeen," Alaska Days is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2020John Hall, Master of Physicke
by Paul Edmondson, Greg Wells
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January 2023Ohne dich bin ich nicht ich
by Smriti Halls, Steve Small, Cornelia Boese
Ohne dich: Party bei Hörnchen und Bär, die gemeinsam alles schaffen. Neues von Eichhörnchen, genannt Hörnchen, und Bär, den zwei tierischen Freunden, die so perfekt zusammen passen wie Eiskrem mit Schlagsahneschaum. Nach langer Zeit wollen die beiden endlich mal wieder eine richtig große Party feiern und bereiten begeistert alles vor. Bär backt Apfelkuchen und presst Zitronen für die selbstgemachte Limonade aus. Doch dann lädt Hörnchen immer mehr Gäste ein, besorgt Ballons, bereitet einen Band-Auftritt vor. Vor lauter Aufregung bemerkt es nicht, dass Bär ein mulmiges Gefühl beschleicht. Ihm wird das alles zu viel. Und als die Feier startet, ist es Hörnchen, das sich im Haus voller Gäste plötzlich irgendwie allein fühlt. Doch die beiden wären ja nicht beste Freunde, wenn sie die Gefühle des anderen nicht verstehen würden. Und so schaffen es die zwei, doch noch gemeinsam mit allen ein großartiges Fest zu feiern. Eine fabelhafte Geschichte mitten aus dem Hier und Jetzt. Nach „Ohne dich, das geht doch nicht!“ und „Ich und du und Huhn dazu“ das dritte Bilderbuch mit Hörnchen und Bär über freundschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Erzählt einfühlsam von den gemischten Gefühlen, nach der Pandemie wieder unter vielen Freunden und Freundinnen zu sein. Witzige, empathische Reime von Smriti Halls und hinreißende, ausdrucksstarke Illustrationen von Steve Small für Kinder ab 4 Jahren. Wunderschönes Mitbringsel zur nächsten Party – nicht nur für Kinder, auch für alle Erwachsenen mit „Bauchgefühl“.
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January 2022Ich und du und Huhn dazu
by Smriti Halls, Steve Small, Cornelia Boese
"Ich und du und Huhn dazu" von Smriti Halls erzählt eine herzerwärmende Geschichte über die Bedeutung von Freundschaft und das Glück, das sie bringen kann, sogar wenn sie unerwartet zu dritt stattfindet. Bär und Hörnchen, unzertrennliche Freunde, stehen vor einer neuen Herausforderung, als das Huhn darum bittet, Teil ihrer Gemeinschaft zu werden. Zunächst skeptisch, ob Freundschaft zu dritt funktionieren kann, erkennen sie bald den wahren Wert des Beisammenseins, als sie gemeinsam das Huhn aus einer brenzligen Situation retten. Dieses Erlebnis lehrt sie, dass wahre Freundschaft keine Grenzen kennt und dass das Huhn sich längst einen Platz in ihren Herzen erobert hat. Mit wunderschön gereimtem Text und detailreichen, lebhaften Illustrationen bietet das Buch eine bezaubernde Lektüre, die die Themen Freundschaftsteilung und Zugehörigkeit auf eine einfühlsame und humorvolle Weise erkundet. Ideal als Geschenk und zum Vorlesen, ist es ein wertvoller Schatz für kleine und große beste Freunde, der von der Stiftung Lesen empfohlen wird. Einfühlsame und humorvolle Erzählung: Behandelt die Themen "Freunde teilen" und "dazugehören" auf eine Weise, die Kinder ab 4 Jahren direkt anspricht und zum Nachdenken anregt. Wunderschön illustriert: Die detailreichen und lebendigen Bilder machen das Buch zu einem visuellen Genuss und unterstützen die Geschichte perfekt. Positive Botschaft: Vermittelt wichtige Werte wie Zusammenhalt, Akzeptanz und die Freude an gemeinsamen Abenteuern. Ideales Geschenk: Perfekt geeignet als Präsent für kleine und große Freunde, um die Bedeutung von Freundschaft zu feiern. Fortsetzung eines Erfolgstitels: Baut auf dem beliebten Vorgänger "Ohne dich, das geht doch nicht!" auf und verspricht erneut großartige Unterhaltung und wertvolle Lebenslektionen.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Popular cinema in Brazil, 1930–2001
by Stephanie Dennison, Lisa Shaw
Brazil has one of the most significant and productive film industries in Latin America. This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into the Brazilian films that have most captured the imagination of domestic audiences over the years. The recent international success of films such as Central Station and City of God, has stimulated widespread interest in Brazilian film, but studies written in English focus on the 'auteur' cinema of the 1960s. This book focuses on individual films in their socio-historical context, drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil and Latin America. It argues that Brazilian cinema has almost always been grounded in intrinsically home-grown cultural forms, dating back to the nineteenth century, such as the Brazilian music-hall, the travelling circus, radio shows, carnival, and, later, comedy television. Combining a chronological structure with groundbreaking research and a lively approach, Popular cinema in Brazil is the ideal introduction to Brazilian cinema.
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September 2021Weihnachten auf Thompson Hall
by Anthony Trollope, Irmela Schautz, Andrea Ott
Brown am Abend vor Weihnachten in einem Pariser Hotel mit Husten krank im Bett liegt, kommt ihm das nicht ganz ungelegen: Seine Frau wollte dieses Jahr unbedingt im Kreise der Großfamilie auf dem englischen Familiensitz feiern, doch er hat ganz und gar keine Lust, am kommenden Tag früh dorthin aufzubrechen. Mrs. Brown will keine Ausflüchte gelten lassen, und damit ihr Mann rasch wieder zu Kräften kommt, verspricht sie ihm einen Senfwickel, der seinen Husten mildern soll. Doch woher mitten in der Nacht in einem fremden Hotel Senf nehmen? Mrs. Brown irrt durch die dunklen Gänge, doch als es ihr endlich gelingt, den Senfwickel anzulegen, erlebt sie eine Überraschung … Eine herrlich vergnügliche Weihnachtsgeschichte der etwas anderen Art mit bestem britischen Humor von Anthony Trollope.
