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Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's the Confidence-Man

Book by Jonathan A. Cook; Greenwood Press, 1996

Subjects:

Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism, Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Confidence-man, Millennialism in literature, Satire, American--History and criticism, Swindlers and swindling in literature

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...the "Crystal Palace," this "worlds fair" was a mid-Victorian monument to the benefits of free trade and technological progress...actually applicable to both England and America, for mid-Victorian confidence in the sovereign virtues of free trade nurtured...
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Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

Book by Mike Huggins, J. A. Mangan; Frank Cass, 2004

Subjects:

Leisure--Great Britain--History, Leisure--Social Aspects--Great Britain--History

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...periodicals, 1841-1901: a satirical sociology of Victorian sporting life MIKE HUGGINS...this visual evidence of the Victorian and Edwardian periods to shed...part of the wider process of Victorian illustration, the power of...
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Victorian Literature and Finance

Book by Francis O'Gorman; Oxford University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Authorship--Economic Aspects--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Capitalism And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Capitalism In Literature, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Finance In Literature, Literature Publishing--Economic Aspects--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Money In Literature, Value In Literature

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...the attempts to find a golden mean are more awkward. Greed and mammon-worship are figured on the satirical or denunciatory surface of Victorian texts. The usefulness of money is inscribed, much more deeply, in their plots. Even Trollopes...
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Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital

Book by Steven Heller, Seymour Chwast; Harry N. Abrams, 2000

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Commercial Art--History--19th Century, Commercial Art--History--20th Century, Graphic Arts--History--19th Century, Graphic Arts--History--20th Century

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...also experienced a betrayal of republicanism and a return to authoritarian rule. Early French Victorian graphic style is best represented by the satirical political and social lithographs of Charles Philipon, Honore Daumier, Grandville, Henri...
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Satire in the Victorian Novel

Book by Frances Theresa Russell; Macmillan, 1920

Subjects:

English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction, Satire, English--History And Criticism

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Satire in the Victorian Novel CHAPTER I THE SATIRIC SPIRIT "Are ye satirical, sir?" inquired the Ettrick Shepherd, warily...of this indeterminate subject. To recognize the satirical at sight, to know whether a man is telling the...

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Novel Poetry: Transgressing the Law of Genre

Journal article by Dino Franco Felluga; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

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British poetry--Criticism and interpretation, British poetry--Social aspects, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Social aspects, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Social aspects

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...1) we have not Romantic but Victorian ideology to blame for many of these distinctions: the belief that the Victorians represent a hard separation from...termed, reworking McGann, the Victorian ideology, for the Victorians themselves often tried to conceive...Andrew Elfenbeins Byron and the Victorians and Donald Stones Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction (Cambridge: Harvard Univ...
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Colonial Canons: The Case of James Brunton Stephens

Journal article by Barbara Garlick; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40, 2002

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Australian poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Stephens, James Brunton--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...notion that humorous, satirical, and polemical verse...Stephens reflected the Victorian emphasis on the poet...and Eugenics: Late-Victorian Discourses of the Ending...Book of Australian Satirical Verse (Ringwood...edited or co-edited Victorians and History (AVSA...Greenwood, 1992), Victorian Journalism (U Queensland...
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"Scientific Wooing": Constance Naden's Marriage of Science and Poetry

Journal article by Marion Thain; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Naden, Constance--Works, Science--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Works

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...for rhyme, observable in some of these Victorian verses: trivializing can defuse anxieties...James G. Paradis has documented how "Victorian ironists and visual caricaturists have...oppositional paradigm," see Helen Groth, "Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives...
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Introduction: Science and Victorian Poetry

Journal article by Gowan Dawson, Sally Shuttleworth; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Works, Science--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...instance, appeared to many in Victorian Britain as entirely logical...to understand what the Victorians themselves considered to...during a period in which Victorians started to think of themselves...practitioner of this distinctively Victorian genre, combines numerate...reminds us that, for the Victorians, science and poetry resided...developed strategies in her satirical poetry to overcome the...
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General Materials

Journal article by Andrew M. Stauffer; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Book)--Book reviews, Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 (Book)--Book reviews, Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Book)--Book reviews, The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880 (Book)--Book reviews, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Book)--Book reviews

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...Taken together, this years books in Victorian studies demonstrate the continuing...culture-emerges. Kirstie Blair, in Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart, reveals the complexity of Victorian cardiac discourse and examines its...

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Women Murderers in Victorian Britain

Magazine article by Judith Knelman; History Today, Vol. 48, August 1998

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United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era), Women murderers--Media coverage

Collections: History, Entire Library

...press. Although the Victorian press was attempting...was shocking, the Victorians, reined in by an exacting...Punch put it, in a satirical vein: ...upon the...a question that the Victorians were prepared to spend...as to preserve the Victorian norm of femininity...Mary Hartman, Victorian Murderesses: A True...
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And Is the Way We Live Now So Much Better? the BBC's Trollope Serialisation Leads John Sutherland to Draw Some Parallels between Victorian and Blairite Britain

Magazine article by John Sutherland; New Statesman, Vol. 130, December 17, 2001

Subjects:

Civilization, Modern--20th century, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Life style--Analysis, Trollope, Anthony--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...draw some parallels between Victorian and Blairite Britain by John...principally out-of-copyright Victorian fiction) at a budget price...in 1875, unfashionable. Victorians did not like it one bit. It was too satirical, too savage, too, how...popularity took off like a Gothic Victorian rocket in the 1960s with...
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The British Satirical Revolution

Magazine article by Keith Suter; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, September 2004

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp.--Services, Broadcasting industry--Services, Comedy programs--Services, Television comedies--Services

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The British Satirical Revolution. by Keith...popular because by that time Victorian prudery saw no place for...grand plan for the British satirical revolution. It was just...Satire on the Stage The satirical revolution operated in...
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Stranglehold on Victorian Society: 'Garotting', or the Strangulation of a Victim in the Course of a Robbery, Haunted the British Public in the 1850s. Emelyne Godfrey Describes the Measures Taken to Prevent It and the Range of Gruesome Self-Defence Devices That Were Often of Greater Danger to the Wearer Than to the Assailant

Magazine article by Emelyne Godfrey; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009

Subjects:

Crime victims--Safety and security measures, Robbery--Methods, Strangling, Strangulation, Victims of crimes--Safety and security measures

Collections: History, Entire Library

Stranglehold on Victorian Society: Garotting, or the Strangulation...OMITTED Walking the streets at night, a Victorian man about town knowingly ran the risk...concept of garrotting existed before Victorian times and the term, too, was not...
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James Burnley: A Victorian for Today

Magazine article by Stephen Wade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, August 1997

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Authors--United Kingdom, Burnley, James H., IV--Works

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James Burnley: a Victorian for today by Stephen Wade...forgotten writers from the Victorian era who appear to represent...regional writing of late Victorian Britain. It was an age...ballads, lampoons and satirical songs played a part in...

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Lifestyle: Nothing New about Strutting Your Stuff; Women Were like Peacocks Way Back in the Victorian Age. Laura Davis Discovers Little Has Changed

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Peacocks Way Back in the Victorian Age. Laura Davis Discovers...the weekly Liverpool satirical journal The Porcupine...dominated the 1970s; Victorian elegance with sweeping full-length dresses; A Victorian advert for corsets
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Songs of the Sinners

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), November 22, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...street pub in the First World War, the musical mood of the opera is by turns dark and satirical, magical, lyrical and bittersweet. Echoes of Victorian music hall and cabaret mingle with the sounds of patriotic propaganda as Jack OConnor...
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Work's a Bonus at Council

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 29, 2010

Subjects:

City councils

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...take a deep breath of fresh air and check that they have not somehow been transported to a Victorian rotten borough or, perhaps, the set of an edgy satirical political television drama. The immediate fallout from the result of an employment tribunal...
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New Chapter in History of Ashes; Phil Blanche, Chief Cricket Writer for the Western Mail, Looks Back on the History of the Ashes and Some of Its Greatest Moments

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 4, 2009

Subjects:

Cricket, Cricket (Sport)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...classic colonial duel between old master and former subject. Even in those embryonic Victorian days losing to the old enemy hurt, hence The Sporting Times satirical obituary after Australia had won at The Oval and on an English ground for the first...
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Insanity Behind the Poker Faces

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 1, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tackle those 600-page dusty Victorian tomes. How short-sighted...Diamonds (1872) takes wicked, satirical swipes at the narrow, privileged...embrace the time-travelling Victorian melodrama with the same enthusiasm...as the historical tour of Victorian London with cocky assurance...

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...they pointed out the hypocrisies in Victorian values and institutions. The sparkling...that were to become features of post-Victorian sensibility. World War I shook England...vol. 8 by P. Davis, 1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...

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