Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson Mary Ellen Lamb Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and Joh… OL13666185W
Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press Will Tattersdill "In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied… OL20594356W
City of Dreadful Delight City of Dreadful Delight Judith R. Walkowitz Amazon's Description From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social hist… OL4125481W
Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Ann Cline Kelly "Ann Cline Kelly's book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth-century scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century "republic of letters," a conservative, … OL4972313W
Fun Without Vulgarity Fun Without Vulgarity Catherine Haill 22p., 80p. of col. plates : 28cm OL5405967W
Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland Philip Connell xiii, 317 pages : 24 cm OL6221754W
Not with a bang but a whimper Not with a bang but a whimper Theodore Dalrymple "In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes rite measure of out cultural decline, noting that our current age seems exceptional in the peculiarity of its unease: "Never in human history have people l… OL8371671W