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The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style. With the aim of articulating British global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures both in Britain and in the wider British world, especially in the "white settler" Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. Evoking the contemporary and emotive idea of "Greater Britain," this new book by distinguished historian G. A. Bremner represents a major, groundbreaking study of this intriguing architectural movement in Britain and its empire. It explores the Edwardian Baroque's significance as a response to the growing tide of anxiety over Britain's place in the world, its widely perceived geopolitical decline, and its need to bolster confidence in the face of the Great Power rivalries of the period. Cross-disciplinary in nature, it combines architectural, political, and imperial history and theory, providing a more nuanced and intellectually wide-ranging understanding of the Edwardian Baroque movement from a material culture perspective, including its foundation in notions of race and gender.

Architecture, Edwardian. --- Architecture, Victorian. --- Imperialism and architecture --- Imperialism and architecture.

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This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Sociology --- nineteenth century literature --- disability in literature --- prosthetics in literature --- Victorian disability --- Charles Dickens --- Wilkie Collins --- Edgar Allen Poe --- Open Access --- Victorian Literature --- Literature, Science and Medicine Studies --- Literature and Disability Studies --- Novel

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Born into the post-war American Occupation of Japan, Nobuko Kanasaka (née Fujimoto) emerged as a woman of her time, both tempered and inspired by the vicissitudes and challenges of occupation life (up to 1952), followed by the hazards of the early post-occupation growth of the economy, the 'miracle' years and finally the 'post-bubble' years. This illustrated volume comprising over 400 photographs and illustrations, tracks both Nobuko's life experiences from early childhood and celebrates her achievements as an amateur artist, calligrapher and writer - allowing us insights into aspects of everyday life in Japan during this highly significant period in Japanese history. It is, therefore, both a book of reference for a readership wishing to access a personal history of another culture and a tribute to a life well lived and loved, Nobuko having travelled much of the world thanks to her scholar husband's interests as one of Japan's leading geographers and a specialist in the writings and travels of Isabella Bird.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers. --- Isabella Bird. --- Twin Time Travel. --- Victorian Traveller. --- photographic exhibition. --- College teachers' spouses --- Calligraphy, Japanese. --- Kanasaka, Nobuko, --- Kanasaka, Kiyonori, --- Family. --- Japanese calligraphy --- Teachers' spouses --- College teachers' wives --- Faculty spouses --- Kanesaka, Kiyonori, --- 金坂淸則, --- 金坂清則,

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Translated anthology of 'London Letters' written by Russian foreign correspondents which makes available for the first time in English the Russian perspective on early twentieth-century London life. This anthology provides a unique window onto Britain's capital city as it existed more than a century ago in the minds of the Russian reading public. Russian foreign correspondents produced a substantial body of writing documenting London life in all its infinite variety, but their articles, published in Russian journals and newspapers, have not been accessible to English speakers until today. These articles, instrumental in forging Russian perceptions of London before the First World War, have now acquired a new interest as monuments of a vanished era and as records of the city's history in their own right. The selections in this anthology from Isaak Shklovsky, Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak and Semyon Rapoport give just a taste of the riches that still lie hidden in the pages of old periodicals. The anthology is divided into four sections: 'Foreigners in London', focusing on the plight of immigrants in the city; 'London Labour and the London Poor', documenting the experiences of working-class Londoners; 'London at Home and at Leisure', depicting the domestic life and amusements of Londoners of all classes and ages; and 'London Streets and Public Life', covering elections, religious meetings, famous trials, jingoist celebrations and the funeral of Queen Victoria. The articles are accompanied by an in-depth introduction, illustrations and extensive annotations. This anthology will appeal to anyone interested in London history or in Anglo-Russian relations, as well as to scholars of Russian literature. Chukovsky and Marshak both became famous writers later in life, and many of Shklovsky's sketches have a distinct literary as well as historical value.

Foreign correspondents --- London (England) --- Social life and customs --- Anglo-Russian studies. --- History of immigration. --- History of journalism. --- Isaak Shklovsky. --- Jewish history. --- Korney Chukovsky. --- Labour history. --- London history. --- Samuil Marshak. --- Semyon Rapoport. --- Victorian and Edwardian culture.

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Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

English literature --- Music in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Homosexuality and music. --- Music --- Queer theory. --- History and criticism. --- Physiological effect. --- Gender identity --- Music, Influence of --- Music and homosexuality --- Literature --- Literature and homosexuality --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Music and literature. --- Literature and music --- Victorian literature --- music --- queer studies