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This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb and Thomas Sedgwick, this book offers a comparative history of how the idea of imperial citizenship took hold in early twentieth-century Britain, and how it helped foster the articulation of a broader British world. It reveals how imperial citizenship as a form of imperial identity was challenged by voices in both Britain and the empi
Citizenship. --- Imperialism. --- Nationalism. --- Citizenship --- Imperialism --- Nationalism --- History. --- Boer War. --- British imperialism. --- Great War. --- early twentieth century. --- empire. --- imperial citizenship. --- imperial subjects. --- nation-state. --- national identity. --- settlement colonies.
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In 'Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes', world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. 'Beethoven's Century' addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendship between Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera librettos in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life. 'Beethoven's Century' concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.
Music --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Alkan. --- Beethoven. --- Berlioz. --- French opera. --- Hugo Wolf. --- Janácek. --- Liszt. --- Paganini. --- Schubert. --- Schumann. --- Scriabin. --- Skryabin. --- Viennese views. --- Wagner. --- analysis. --- audience. --- comic opera. --- composer. --- conductor. --- development. --- early twentieth century. --- early twentieth-century music. --- eccentric personalities. --- friendship. --- libretti. --- music. --- musical personality. --- play. --- trends.
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This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom. It highlights the importance of the English dimension and the role that England's territorial politics played in constitutional debates. Similarities and differences between how the components of the UK were governed are described. It argues that the UK should be understood now, even more than pre-devolution, as a state of distinct unions, each with its own deeply rooted past and trajectory. Using previously unpublished primary material, as well as a weal
Decentralization in government --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Internal politics --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom. --- constitutional debates. --- devolution. --- distinct unions. --- early twentieth century. --- government. --- pre-devolution. --- territorial constitution. --- territorial politics.
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The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to 'equality'? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democ.
Equality --- Socialism --- Liberalism --- Right and left (Political science) --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- History --- Great Britain --- Economic policy --- Social policy. --- British Left. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- New Left. --- early twentieth century. --- economic egalitarianism. --- egalitarian society. --- equality. --- progressive liberalism. --- revisionist social democracy. --- socialism.
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Public relations was established in Britain by a group of liberal intellectuals in the aftermath of the slump. Central to the startling story of Britain's early public relations pioneers is Sir Stephen Tallents, the inaugural President of the Institute of Public Relations. Tallents was a public sector entrepreneur who lent his patronage to John Grierson's documentary film movement, the BBC Overseas Service, the development of Listener Research and the staging of the Festival of Britain.A compelling portrait of how the social, economic and media revolutions of early twentieth century reshaped national life, Public relations and the making of modern Britain reveals a country struggling to cope with austerity and crisis that is at once very different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own.This book includes the first reprint of Tallents' influential 'The Projection of England' for over fifty years. It will interest students and scholars of media studies and modern British culture, history and politics.
Public relations --- Business --- Industries --- PR (Public relations) --- Advertising --- Industrial publicity --- Mass media and business --- Propaganda --- Publicity --- History. --- Tallents, Stephen, --- History --- E-books --- Civil Servants. --- EMB Film Unit. --- Empire Marketing Board. --- General Post Office. --- Great Depression. --- Great War. --- Institute of Public Relations. --- Ministry of Information. --- Sir Stephen Tallents. --- early twentieth-century Britain. --- modern Britain. --- postwar period. --- propaganda. --- public relations.
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This first miscellany volume to be published by the Church of England Record Society contains eight edited texts covering aspects of the history of the Church from the Reformation to the early twentieth century. The longest contribution is a scholarly edition of W.J. Conybeare's famous and influential article on nineteenth-century "Church Parties"; other documents included are the protests against Archbishop Cranmer's metropolitical powers of visitation, the petitions to the Long Parliament in support of the Prayer Book, and Randall Davidson's memoir on the role of the archbishop of Canterbury in the early twentieth century. Stephen Taylor is Professor in the History of Early Modern England, University of Durham. Contributors: PAUL AYRIS, MELANIE BARBER, ARTHUR BURNS, JUDITH MALTBY, ANTHONY MILTON, ANDREW ROBINSON, STEPHEN TAYLOR, BRETT USHER, ALEXANDRA WALSHAM
283 --- Anglikaanse Kerk. American Episcopal Church --- Church of England --- Anglican Church --- Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Ecclesia Anglicana --- Kirche von England --- United Church of England and Ireland --- History --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Church history --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Archbishop Cranmer. --- Church Parties. --- Church of England. --- Early twentieth century. --- History. --- Long Parliament. --- Prayer Book. --- Randall Davidson. --- Reformation.
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Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English.
German literature --- History and criticism. --- Austrian Modernism. --- Berlin. --- Biography. --- Early Twentieth Century. --- Feminism. --- Feminist Voice. --- Gender. --- German Modernism. --- Grete Meisel-Hess. --- Jewishness. --- Literary-cultural Exploration. --- Modernist Discourse. --- Race/Ethnicity. --- Sexuality. --- Vienna. --- Women authors, German --- Feminist literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Sexology --- Women authors --- Jewish authors --- History --- Meisel-Hess, Grete, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation. Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography's conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.
Black-and-white photography --- History --- Lynes, George Platt, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- PaJaMa (Artists' collective) --- 1930s and 1940s New York cultural landscape. --- 20th century. --- art history. --- early twentieth century queer culture. --- fire island. --- modernism. --- modernist movement. --- photographic collaborations. --- transatlantic avant-garde. --- world making.
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Prolific and personable, innovative and contentious, Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was considered to be one of the most promising young talents in modern British music at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a member of the 'Frankfurt Group' (together with Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Balfour Gardiner), his music was performed by some of the leading conductors of the time in Britain and on the Continent, and his friends included highly influential figures in European literature, art and politics. Apart from his music, Scott was the author of many books on alternative medicine, psychology, Occultism, Theosophy and comparative religion. He also wrote fiction, autobiography, and poetry. Scott embodied a unique time in a particularly unique way. His aesthetic ideas informed both his professional creative practice and his manner of living. He was not merely a composer, but an artist in the broadest possible sense of the term. This book provides the first comprehensive account of Scott's life and influences as well as an outline and contextualization of his aesthetic thinking. It traces his changing conception of the function of art and the role of the artist from his formative exposure to Symbolism through his friendship with the German poet Stefan George, to his exploration of Western and Eastern esoteric traditions, showing how the prevailing cross-pollination of ideas allowed him to develop a fully integrated rationale for his art and life. The story of Scott's development guides the reader through some of the most fascinating intellectual discourses of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Europe. Sarah Collins' current research focuses on British music aesthetics and criticism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has a particular interest in the interaction between turn-of-the-century conceptions of the function of criticism, theories of critical intuition and questions of moral philosophy. She lectured at the University of Queensland from 2006 and joined the faculty of Monash University in 2012.
Composers -- Europe -- Biography. --- Music -- Europe -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Music -- Europe -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970. --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Composers --- Scott, Cyril, --- Scott, Cyril Meir, --- Skott, S. --- Skott, Siril Meĭr, --- Scott, S., --- Aesthetics. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. --- Aesthetic thinking. --- Art and life. --- British music. --- Comparative religion. --- Cyril Scott. --- Early-twentieth-century Europe. --- Frankfurt Group. --- Late-nineteenth-century Europe. --- Occultism. --- Percy Grainger. --- Stefan George. --- Symbolism. --- Theosophy. --- Western and Eastern esoteric traditions.
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Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. British Music and Literary Context counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Chapter one focuses upon the artistic collaboration between Hubert Parry and Robert Bridges; chapter two explores how Charles Villiers Stanford consistently returned to Tennyson's texts throughout his compositional career; chapters three and four suggest how an orchestral drama by Granville Bantock might represent a close reading of a poem by Robert Browning, and how structure and imagery in a novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton might inform a reading of Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet Op.84. The final chapter offers parallels between narrative strategies in Victorian travel literature (including works by Charles Dickens and George Gissing) and the nature of musical events in Elgar's concert overture In the South Op.50. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth century British music, literature and Victorian studies will find this book most stimulating. Michael Allis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music, University of Leeds.
Music --- Music and literature --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- English poetry --- History --- Musical settings --- British composers. --- British literature. --- British music. --- Edward Elgar. --- Tennyson. --- Victorian travel literature. --- aesthetic inspiration. --- early twentieth century. --- late nineteenth century. --- literary context. --- literary credentials. --- literary texts. --- music history.
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