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Emmanuelle Avril and Yann Béliard (eds.). Labour United and Divided from the 1830s to the Present
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When ‘Law’ Rhymes with ‘Flaw’: the Sounds of British Justice in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (1875)
Published 2021-01-01“…Yet I would argue that as early as the mid-1870s, the composer-and-librettist duo had successfully started working on what might be perceived by their audience as the ‘sound’ best fit to satirize a number of Victorian institutions—here, the judicial system, turned topsy-turvy by a banal breach of promise case. …”
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Berny Sèbe, Heroic Imperialists in Africa. The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870-1939
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Political discourse as practical reasoning: A case study of a British Prime Minister candidate speech
Published 2017-12-01“… The paper outlines the method of political discourse analysis proposed by I. Fairclough & N. Fairclough (2012), who point to argumentative and deliberative nature of political discourse as practical reasoning that aims to decide a problem-solving action in a given situation. …”
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Behind the Myth: The Representation of the Crimean War in Nineteenth-century British Newspapers, Government Archives & Contemporary Records
Published 2007-12-01“…The national press and the public opinion were too optimistic although the British government and the army were largely unprepared for this major operation. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond
Published 2021-06-01“…Masonic ritual, therefore, held centre stage in the dramaturgy of colonial power in India, and also played a leading role in fostering the cult of Empire, which emerged in the last decades of the 19th century. …”
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Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome...
Published 2024-03-01“…This paper will focus on how the religious symbolism used in the British women’s suffrage movement was integrated, perceived, and received by studying two particular cases: the funeral of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. …”
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Punchdrunk’s Immersive Theatre: From the End to the Edge
Published 2018-07-01“…Invited to roam free through the performance space, they take individual journeys and discover the different scenes as they go along and happen to come across them. Such a radical change of perspective invites us to reconsider the very notion of ending and to think of it not so much in temporal terms, as the last stage in a teleological progression, but to look at it from a spatial angle. …”
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Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
Published 2019-12-01“…This article examines what is taking place in the forty-two sonnets of the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda (2013) by the British poet John Fuller. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935)
Published 2020-06-01“…The literary output that was produced during the rise of the British Empire often reflected the imperialist spirit that dominated the world at that time. …”
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From Travel to Text: Reverends Wolff and Lansdell’s Missions to Bokhara
Published 2024-03-01“…Nearly half a century separates the missions to Bokhara, centre of Islamic knowledge and culture in Central Asia, made by the two intrepid travellers and preachers Joseph Wolff (1795–1862) and Henry Lansdell (1841–1919): an important generational and geopolitical gap both in the development of the Victorian era and in the evolution of travel and travel writing. …”
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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill
Published 2020-12-01“…From its initial publication, Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill has been regarded as children’s literature and Kipling’s imperialism—how he teaches and justifies British Empire’s imperial ideology—has been the main issue for critics in children’s literature studies. …”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950)
Published 2021-06-01“…I will linger on those cross-cultural encounters of the most serendipitous kind between objects, ideas and individuals converging to bring reels on wheels to the edge of Empire: a WW1 British Army tent, a projector, a rifle and a gramophone hoisted onto a bullock cart, travelling through the jungles of colonial Ceylon, reminiscent of Leonard Woolf’s uncelebrated novels… Finally, although beyond the scope of this volume, the question has at least to be raised of the restoration of these devices, capable of producing images whose rich nuances remain to date unequalled by digital technology. …”
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