Victorian Popular Culture welcomes readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. It describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were.
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Archive for May, 2009
Victorian Popular Culture
Posted in 2008-09, Arts & Humanities on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
India, Raj and Empire
Posted in 2008-09, Arts & Humanities on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, India, Raj and Empire will be of interest to all those teaching or researching into the History of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
The documents have been [...]
Atlas of North American English
Posted in 2008-09, Arts & Humanities on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas redefines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on [...]
