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The Eclectic Magazine
Author | : John Holmes Agnew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Glamour
Author | : Stephen Gundle |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191623377 |
Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic? Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace. Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled.
Women for Hire
Author | : Alain Corbin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674955448 |
Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
The Belle Époque
Author | : Dominique Kalifa |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231554389 |
The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared the stage with the Universal Exposition, Toulouse-Lautrec rubbed elbows with Marie Curie and La Belle Otero, and Fantômas invented automatic writing. This book traces the making—and the imagining—of the Belle Époque to reveal how and why it became a cultural myth. Dominique Kalifa lifts the veil on a period shrouded in nostalgia, explaining the century-long need to continuously reinvent and even sanctify this moment. He sifts through images handed down in memoirs and reminiscences, literature and film, art and history to explore the many facets of the era, including its worldwide reception. The Belle Époque was born in France, but it quickly went global as other countries adopted the concept to write their own histories. In shedding light on how the Belle Époque has been celebrated and reimagined, Kalifa also offers a nuanced meditation on time, history, and memory.
The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature (1820-1848)
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : |
The Quarterly Review
Author | : William Gifford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |