Punch and Judy in 19th Century America - 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 Punch and Judy in 19th Century America write by Ryan Howard. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Punch and Judy in 19th Century America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
Artist of Wonderland
Artist of Wonderland - 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 Artist of Wonderland write by Frankie Morris. This book was released on 2023-03-30. Artist of Wonderland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books. In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and his fifty years with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. Tenniel's countrymen thought his work would embody for future historians the 'trend and character' of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled. The biography is followed by three sections on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures. Morris also demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day, from the Eastern Question to Lincoln and the American Civil War, examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist who mythologized the world for generations of Britons.
The Punch & Judy Show
The Punch & Judy Show - 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 Punch & Judy Show write by Robert Leach. This book was released on 1985. The Punch & Judy Show available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker - 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 Riddley Walker write by Russell Hoban. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Riddley Walker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.
Haunted City
Haunted City - 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 Haunted City write by Christian DuComb. This book was released on 2017-07-07. Haunted City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade and the city's history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation
