Author: Gentleman at London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open
Author: Gentleman at London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The other empire
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects – those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains. Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects – those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains. Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination.
The Tricks of London Laid Open
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open
A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The London Mob
Author: Robert Shoemaker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826433626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes. In a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour, slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826433626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes. In a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour, slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open, Or A Companion for Country Gentlemen
Author: Gentleman at London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-century Society
Author: Regina Hewitt
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The essays in this volume use the concept of heresy to gain insight into the value of social order during the eighteenth century. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviours that might more usually be studied as deviance, the contributors can account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age. The essays examine a range of cultural encounters between orthodox and heterodox figures.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The essays in this volume use the concept of heresy to gain insight into the value of social order during the eighteenth century. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviours that might more usually be studied as deviance, the contributors can account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age. The essays examine a range of cultural encounters between orthodox and heterodox figures.
“A” Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed
Author: City of London. Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760
Author: Darryl P. Domingo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107146275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107146275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.