The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901
The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901

Author: John Russell Stephens

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780521136556

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Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.

Wilde's Women
Wilde's Women

Author: Eleanor Fitzsimons

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1468313266

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“A lively debut biography of the flamboyant Irish writer . . . focusing on the women who loved and supported him” (Kirkus Reviews). In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly, who, like Wilde, loved fast cars, cocaine, and foreign women. Fresh, revealing, and entertaining, full of fascinating detail and anecdotes, Wilde’s Women relates the untold story of how a beloved writer and libertine played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women, and how they supported him in the midst of a Victorian society in the process of changing forever. “Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr . . . provide[s] a potted biography of the multitalented writer and gay icon . . . highly enjoyable.” —The Washington Post “Fitzsimons brilliantly calls attention to the progressive ideas and beliefs which drew the most daring and interesting women of the time to his side. The depth and painstaking care of Fitzsimons’ research is a fitting tribute to Wilde’s fascinating life and exquisite writing—and really, what better compliment is there than that?” —High Voltage

Sleep
Sleep

Author: Marie de Manacéïne

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Sleep, Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, and Psychology
Sleep, Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, and Psychology

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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"This book examines a variety of aspects of sleep, including its physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology. The author also looks at the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenomena of sleep, reflex movements, the brain during sleep, talking in sleep, attention during sleep, theories of sleep, the fear of darkness, the influence of light, dreams, and other topics relevant to sleep." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Music Hall and Modernity
Music Hall and Modernity

Author: Barry J. Faulk

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0821441396

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The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of “the people.” In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Archer and Max Beerbohm, and late-Victorian controversies over philanthropy and moral reform, scholar Barry Faulk argues that discourse on music-hall entertainment helped consolidate the identity and tastes of an emergent professional class. Critics and writers legitimized and cleaned up the music hall, at the same time allowing issues of class, respect, and empowerment to be negotiated. Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the new middle-class, middlebrow mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes to a body of scholarship on nineteenth-century urbanism. The book will also interest scholars concerned with the emergence of a professional managerial class and the genealogy of cultural studies.