London Nights
Author | : Stephen Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Download London Nights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download London Nights PDF full book. Access full book title London Nights.
Author | : Stephen Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anna Sparham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Documentary photography |
ISBN | : 9781910566343 |
In May 2018 the Museum of London will launch a major new exhibition showcasing both contemporary and historic imagery that explores the capital after hours. Well-known photographers (such as Bill Brandt) will sit alongside lesser-known artists who explore the dreamy, threatening and shadowy world of the city after the sun goes down. The book will contain essays, poetry and over 100 images from the exhibition that span the genres of architectural, documentary and portrait photography.
Author | : Shaw Desmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Symons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Beyond Words/Atria Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781416554448 |
Presents a photographic essay on the Prince tour "21 Nights" held in London in 2007, depicting the performer and his band in on-stage performances, backstage preparations, and after-hour sessions, in a text which includes poetry and song lyrics.
Author | : Joachim Schlör |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780236190 |
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those who toiled at work and those who caroused in restaurants, pubs, and cafes. Nights in the Big City explores this change and offers a stirring portrait of the secrets and mysteries a city can hold when the sun goes down. Sifting through countless police and church archives alongside first-hand accounts, Schlör sets out on his own explorations with a head full of histories, exploring the boulevards and side-streets of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Bill Brandt and André Kertész, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City is a milestone in the cultural history of the city.
Author | : Craig Taylor |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-02-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0062096931 |
“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators.” -- New York Times Book Review Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities–a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum. Acclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city, getting to know the most interesting Londoners, including the voice of the London Underground, a West End rickshaw driver, an East End nightclub doorperson, a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace, and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London—and now live there. With candor and humor, this diverse cast—rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant, men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George)—shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before. Together, these voices paint a vivid, epic, and wholly original portrait of twenty-first-century London in all its breadth, from Notting Hill to Brixton, from Piccadilly Circus to Canary Wharf, from an airliner flying into London Heathrow Airport to Big Ben and Tower Bridge, and down to the deepest tunnels of the London Underground. Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities.
Author | : Jane Ford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317576586 |
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of ‘needs’ to one ministering to anything that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace, social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet. The collection builds on recent critical developments in fin-de-siècle literature (including major interventions in the areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies of literary production/performance? And what relation exists between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and enhances the field of fin-de-siècle studies more generally.
Author | : Shaw Desmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rohan McWilliam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192556401 |
How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry. The area from the Strand to Oxford Street came to stand for sensation and vulgarity but also the promotion of high culture. The West End produced shows and fashions whose impact rippled outwards around the globe. During the nineteenth century, an area that serviced the needs of the aristocracy was opened up to a wider public whilst retaining the imprint of luxury and prestige. Rohan McWilliam tells the story of the great artists, actors and entrepreneurs who made the West End: figures such as Gilbert and Sullivan, the playwright Dion Boucicault, the music hall artiste Jenny Hill, and the American Harry Gordon Selfridge who wanted to create the best shop in the world. At the same time, McWilliam explores the distinctive spaces created in the West End, from the glamour of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through to low life bars and taverns. We encounter the origins of the modern star system and celebrity culture. London's West End, 1800-1914 moves from the creation of Regent Street to the glory days of the Edwardian period when the West End was the heart of empire and the entertainment industry. Much of modern culture and consumer society was shaped by a relatively small area in the middle of London. This pioneering study establishes why that was.