Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities write by Linda Stratmann. This book was released on 2011. Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Illustrated Police News is often dismissed as a crude publication which aimed to thrill the undiscerning reader with gruesome pictures. Cruel Deeds and Calamities sets out to correct that belief by demonstrating the diversity of its subject matter, examining its social and political agenda and revealing the power and compassion in its images. The Illustrated Police News was a promoter of social change and a campaigner against the evils of cruelty, poverty, drink and crime. It anticipated by many years the features of today's journalism, in the rapidity with which it provided pictures of current news events, its appeal to the emotions, and the involvement of its readers in the reporting process. This is the first book exclusively about the Illustrated Police News to reproduce the pictures as high quality images, provide a balanced account of its content and cover the full period of its publication. There is substantial new research into how the paper was produced, the men who made it a success, and the stories behind the pictures.
The Illustrated Police News
The Illustrated Police News - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illustrated Police News write by Linda Stratmann. This book was released on 2019. The Illustrated Police News available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Firs published in 2011 as Cruel deeds and dreadfull calamaties. This edition contains revised and edited material.
Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 write by Victoria Margree. This book was released on 2018-03-31. Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories about shape-shifting monsters, morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life. However, while Marsh’s work appealed to a public greedy for sensationalist fiction, both the cultural elite of the day and twentieth-century literary critics looked askance at his popular middlebrow fiction. In the wake of the recent rediscovery of Marsh’s fiction, this essay collection builds on burgeoning scholarly interest in the author. Marsh emerges here as a fascinating writer who helped shape the genres of popular fiction and whose stories offer surprising responses to issues of criminality, gender and empire in this period of cultural transition.
The Daughters of Gentlemen
The Daughters of Gentlemen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Daughters of Gentlemen write by Linda Stratmann. This book was released on 2012-04-01. The Daughters of Gentlemen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. Armed with only her wits, courage and determination, she finds that even the most respectable denizens of Bayswater have something to hide, and what begins as a simple task soon becomes a case of murder. As election fever erupts and the formidable ladies of the Bayswater Women's Suffrage Society swing into action, Frances' enquiries expose lies, more murders and a long-concealed scandal, and she makes a powerful new friend. The second book in the popular Frances Doughty Mystery series.
The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats
The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats write by Michael Connerty. This book was released on 2021-08-30. The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny Wonder, and Puck, between 1893 and 1917. It situates the work in relation to late-Victorian and Edwardian media, entertainment and popular culture, as well as to the evolution of the British comic during this crucial period in its development. Yeats’ recurring characters, including circus horse Signor McCoy, detective pastiche Chubblock Homes, and proto-superhero Dicky the Birdman, were once very well-known, part of a boom in cheap and widely distributed comics that Alfred Harmsworth and others published in London from 1890 onwards. The repositioning of Yeats in the context of the comics, and the acknowledgement of the very substantial corpus of graphic humour that he produced, has profound implications for our understanding of his artistic career and of his significant contribution to UK comics history. This book, which also contains many examples of the work, should therefore be of value to those interested in Comics Studies, Irish Studies, and Art History.
