The last mini-exhibition was aboutQueer Lives in Literature from 1600-1900and the Bristish Library exposed some of their manuscripts. I knew nothing about books mentioned, likeThe Castle of OtrantoorTelenyand had never heard of the poet Edward Carpenter or the poemTwo Lovesby Lord Alfred Douglas...
While Lincoln denounced slavery as a “moral, social, and political wrong,” the slaveholding Jackson was outspoken in his condemnation of northern abolitionists and, as president, even allowed southern postmasters to confiscate and destroy abolitionist literature. In sum, it seems highly unlikely th...
(2020). Ontwikkelingen in de prostitutiebranche: Een literatuur- en documentenstudie op landelijk niveau en specifiek voor den haag [Developments in the prostitution sector: A literature and document study at national level and specifically for The Hague]. Arnhem: Bureau Beke. Ritterbusch, A. E...
Well the most common technique used, so prevalent that it’s virtually a hallmark of feminist literature, is to report statistics in relation to female victimhood in the absence of comparative figures for men and boys. Such information is (or at least, was) generated in surveys but usually ...
literature… Thought Control (#1457) Anyone with a functional brain could’ve predicted this outcome: [Under] new [censorship] rules enacted by the Alabama Public Library Service in July…libraries can lose their state funding if [a politician points at any book]…in the children or teens sect...
Described by Nick Mason as 'one of the world's most spectacularly inept roadies' the Floyd eventually had to let Pip go. He was the one who accidentally destroyed a giant jelly installation at the Roundhouse on the 15th October 1966 by parking the Pink Floyd van in the middle of it or...
In his 1944 treatise The Condition of Man, Lewis Mumford (inadvertantly) offers a prescient critique of the following decade’s adventure literature: “The last thirty years have been witnessing the active disintegration of Western civilization…. Everywhere the machine holds the center and the per...
RobertLowell(1917—1977)wasborninBostonasthesonofRobertTraillSpenceLowell.Othermembersofthedistinguished,intellectualfamilyincludedthepoetandcriticJamesRussellLowellandthepoetAmyLowell.LowellbeganwritingatSt.Mark'sSchool,wherehisteacherwasthepoetRichardEberhart.HestudiedEnglishliteratureatHarvard.Whenhisparentsrejected...
In a broader sense, a book is any work that is widely recognized as a significant contribution to literature or knowledge. Darwin's book on the theory of evolution changed the course of scientific thought. 2 Monograph A scholarly book or treatise on a narrow subject aimed at a specialized au...
Before moving countries, Jacqueline studied English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford. She went on to obtain a PhD at the University of Sheffield, with a thesis exploring literature, objects, collecting and museums in the 19th century.