Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collectionsexamines the group's responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still resonates...
Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of cra...
Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti's story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysantheme, a temporary bride purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti's favorite words, preposterous--in short, ripe for exploitation....
Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama ...
Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti's story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysantheme, a temporary bride purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti's favorite words, preposterous--in short, ripe for exploitation....
Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama ...
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.
Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of...
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academic...
Death of a Nation is a novel about the political forces dividing the United States against itself. Although a work of fiction, the book includes actual historical events in lead-up to the story, as well as real-life characters effecting events in the near future. Death of a Nation marries two looming events coming near the end of the calendar year; the 2012 Presidential election and the December 21st Mayan Prophecy. It is a story of how an incendiary, turbulent trek toward the November election creates an irreparable schism within the fabric of the nation. The story unites this schism with...
Death of a Nation is a novel about the political forces dividing the United States against itself. Although a work of fiction, the book includes actua...
Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s. Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the...
Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meani...
Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s. Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the...
Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meani...
Ireland's capital city of Dublin is a thriving international centre of culture, music, food and nightlife. In Dublin you can drink Guinness at its source, bask in the splendour of ancient cathedrals and enjoy the lively spirit at a local pub in Temple Bar. Cork is Ireland's southern-most and largest county with lovely villages, verdant green hills and a varied coastline has rocky inlets. On the west coast lies County Galway. The Connemara National Park and the west has mountains, peat bogs and a rocky coastline with fjords. Just a short ferry ride away are the Aran Islands where you can find...
Ireland's capital city of Dublin is a thriving international centre of culture, music, food and nightlife. In Dublin you can drink Guinness at its sou...
Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe's most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city's Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled streets and small alleyways. On the other hand, New Town has a happening shopping and nighttime entertainment scene. Edinburgh attracts four million tourists each year to the city's famous festivals, city attractions and green landscapes. In the past decade Glasgow has flourished and emerged as one of Scotland's top tourist destinations. Don't expect a city full of whisky-fuelled locals sporting tartan Tam OShanters The mixture of classic...
Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe's most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city's Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled st...
Leeds in West Yorkshire is one northern England's largest cities. The city rose to prominence in the 19th century as a major hub of manufacturing and commerce. Its importance during the Industrial Revolution brought jobs, people, and construction to Yorkshire, some of which exists today which gives the city great architectural character. Two hundred miles to the northeast of London is the medieval, walled city of York. The ancient city is located amidst the beautiful green moors and wolds of the North Yorkshire countryside. Encircled by its 13th century walls and its stunning Minster, York...
Leeds in West Yorkshire is one northern England's largest cities. The city rose to prominence in the 19th century as a major hub of manufacturing and ...
