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Popular Beliefs and the Body: “A Nation of Good Animals”

Pamela K. Gilbert

Pamela K. Gilbert

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...To be a good animal is the first requisite to success in life, and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition of national prosperity.Herbert Spencer’s dictum has often been quoted as an irreverent take on theories of society...

Marked Bodies - Divine, Human, and Bestial

Nadja Durbach

Nadja Durbach

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...Speaking at the formation of the Kettering Anti-Vaccination League in 1884, the suffragist and anti-vaccination lecturer Jessie Craigen denounced vaccination for both physically and symbolically marking the body. In feudal times, she...

Fashion and Adornment

Carole Collier Frick

Carole Collier Frick

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A Cultural History Of Hair in the Renaissance Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...When charting a coherent path through the historical fields of material culture, one must proceed mindfully as most practices are local and dependent upon custom, class, and geography. Therefore, generalizations can be tricky. For example...

Money and the Issues of the Age

Brian Sheerin

Brian Sheerin

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A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...What does it mean for money to be imaginary? And how, if at all, could imaginary money work as such? These questions, as broad as they are, serve to focus some of the most far-reaching theoretical “issues of the age” developing...

Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed

Mica Nava

Mica Nava is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London, UK. She is a cultural historian of British modernity and everyday race difference. Her publications include Gender and Generation (1984); Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism (1992); Modern Times: A Century of English Modernity (1996); Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption (1997) and Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Visceral Cosmopolitanism : Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference

Berg, 2007

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...Every now and again there are cultural events which freeze-frame the transformed and transformative elements of a historical period. Princess Diana’s death in 1997 and the week which followed exposed to the world the lineaments of a new...

Performance, Identity and Sexuality in the House Beautiful

Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson

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Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Until Closer to Home, the re-opening exhibition at Leighton House Museum held in 2010, it was generally assumed that Lord Frederick Leighton’s Orientalism was confined to the so-called Arab Hall, an architectural conceit constructed...

Religion and Popular Beliefs

Phyllis Mack

Phyllis Mack

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A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791; repr., Harmondsworth, UK, and New York: Penguin Books, 1979), p. 116.I told him [Samuel Johnson] I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. [...

The Body

Misty G. Anderson

Misty G. Anderson

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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...This chapter offers an argument about what we can know about comic embodiment on the eighteenth-century stage. Stage comedy’s traffic in marriage, its contained saturnalia, and its reliance on exaggeration made key relations of gender...

Leisure, Politics, and the Consumption of Tobacco in Britain since the Nineteenth Century

Matthew Hilton

Matthew Hilton, University of Birmingham. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Histories of Leisure

Berg, 2002

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...Historians of leisure in Britain have traditionally been concerned with two major debates, both relating to power and control. First, there is the issue of control over time. In the early nineteenth century, industrialists’ need for factory...

Community

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...Early modern families operated within a matrix of social networks and ties that linked them to communities and broader social groupings outside their confines. Throughout the period, families did not operate in isolation as closed domestic...