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The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
ISBN: 9780521089524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This innovative, interdisciplinary study explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. It draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling as well as pre-Raphaelite and realist painters including Millais, Burne-Jones, William Powell Frith and Whistler, and a host of Victorian scientists, cultural commentators and art critics. Topics discussed include blindness, memory, hallucination, dust, and the importance of the horizon--a dazzling array of subjects linked together by the operations of the eye and brain. This richly illustrated book will appeal...
This innovative, interdisciplinary study explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. It draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Ba...
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310,33 zł |
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Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination
ISBN: 9780198808268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A lively history of flash photography from the nineteenth century to the present that covers diverse topics like race, poverty, and the paparazzi. It surveys the work of professionals and amateurs, news hounds and art photographers, and photographers of crime and wildlife to highlight the role of flash in popular culture, literature, and film
A lively history of flash photography from the nineteenth century to the present that covers diverse topics like race, poverty, and the paparazzi. It ...
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151,21 zł |
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The Waves
ISBN: 9780241372081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next' Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they...
'Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in an orderly ...
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40,78 zł |
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The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930
ISBN: 9780691203188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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218,40 zł |
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Impressionists in England (Routledge Revivals): The Critical Reception
ISBN: 9781138648449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1984. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent not only era of rapidly changing artistic methods but a crucial evolution in art criticism. This book gathers together a wide-range of the criticism that greeted the work of the Impressionists artists in the English Press. The selected examples of praise and antagonism reflect the sentiments expressed in the comments of prominent newspaper and periodical critics. The selection shows the importance of Impressionist art to English art criticism and wide comprehension of the formal qualities in painting. It... First published in 1984. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent not only era of rapidly changing artistic methods but a crucia... |
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907,73 zł |
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Culture, Landscape, and the Environment: The Linacre Lectures 1997
ISBN: 9780198233787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume move through time and space--from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from industrial Victorian England to Aboriginal Australia--to compare the ways in which the environment is constructed in different ways across cultures.
The contributors to this volume move through time and space--from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from industrial Victorian England to Ab...
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792,54 zł |
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The Woman Reader, 1837-1914
ISBN: 9780198121855 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is an original and fascinating look at the topos of the woman reader and its functioning in cultural debate between the accession of Queen Victoria and the First World War. The issue of women and reading--what they should read; what they should be protected from; how, what, and when they should read--was the focus of lively discussion in the nineteenth century in a wide range of media. Flint uses recent feminist analyses of how women read as a context for her detailed and readable study of these debates, exploring in a variety of texts--from magazines like Woman's World and My...
This book is an original and fascinating look at the topos of the woman reader and its functioning in cultural debate between the accession of Queen V...
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237,21 zł |
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The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
ISBN: 9780521846257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century.
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century.
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787,63 zł |
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The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems and Change
ISBN: 9781138648531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |
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Hard Times
ISBN: 9780141439679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his young daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and "bully of humility" Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of... 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everyth...
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39,12 zł |
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The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
ISBN: 9781316606131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 772 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its...
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce reader...
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242,12 zł |
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781554812240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth centuryAEs most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, KafkaAEs stories invite endless angles of interpretation, from Freudian psychology and existentialist philosophy to animal studies. This volume presents oThe...
A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capit...
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92,07 zł |
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