Author: Jim Cheshire File Type: pdf This book examines how Tennysons career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennysons book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life.Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennysons work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennysons rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role,and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public. **From the Back Cover This book examines how Tennysons career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennysons book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life.Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennysons work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennysons rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role,and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public. About the Author Jim Cheshire is Reader in Cultural History at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research examines the material, literary and visual culture of the nineteenth century. He works on publishing history, literary celebrity, Victorian medievalism, stained glass and Victorian interior design.

Author: Kitty Kelley File Type: mobi For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influntial show in television history, she has gotten her guests--often the biggest celebrities in the world--to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world. After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match. Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fearessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the worlds most revered icons Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Englands Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufacured facades. Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprahs told and the life shes led. Kelley has talked to Oprahs closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprahs legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfreys life, and it is as if shes written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show ever filmed--one in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed. There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.

Author: Alfred Caldecott File Type: pdf A classic in the area, originally published in 1901, this book is a survey of the past work in the field of philosophy of religion, a conspectus of literature and comparison of methods and theologies from the Reformation to the start of the twentieth century. The Introduction part of the volume offers a classification system to explain the order of the detailed section of the book. Lesser-known theologians are covered as well as great thinkers, a deliberate choice on the part of the author. Within each chapter, types of theism are then broken down into sections on individual thinkers, or group of thinkers with a reference to their main works. **

Author: Vetri Nathan File Type: pdf Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a plurality of styles. In it, Nathan argues that Italy sees itself as the quintessential internal Other of Western Europe, and that this subalternity directly influences its cinematic response to immigrants, Europes external Others. In framing his case to understand Italys cinematic response to immigrants, Nathan first explores some basic questions Who exactly is the Other in Italy? Does Italys own past partial alterity affect its present response to its newest subalterns? Drawing on Homi Bhabhas writings and Italian cinematic history, Nathan then posits the existence of marvelous bodies that are momentarily neither completely Italian nor completely immigrant. This ambivalence of forms extends to the films themselves, which tend to be generic hybrids. The persistent curious presence of marvelous bodies and a pervasive generic hybridity enact Italys own chronic ambivalence that results from its presence at the cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean. **