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Marriage between older husbands and younger wives was common in nineteenth-century literature, and as Godfrey skillfully argues, provides a useful window into the dynamics of the patriarchic paradigm. Examining canonical and non-canonical texts from Sense and Sensibility to Dracula, this study finds that literary January-May marriages respond to distinctively nineteenth-century anxieties regarding gender roles by deploying a surprising range of modes parody, incest, aesthetics, horror, economics, and love. The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature ultimately argues that age, like race, sexuality and class is an essential component of gendered identities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Music Examples -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- General Editor's Preface -- 1 Introduction: Barbershop singing in the UK -- 2 Ethics and aesthetics: The social theory of barbershop harmony -- 3 The procedures of preservation: Barbershop singing and the invention of tradition -- 4 Ridicule, religion, and the public image of barbershop -- 5 Separate but equal? Sexual politics in the barbershop -- 6 Performance mannerism and the amateur imagination -- 7 Tag-singing: The private face of barbershop -- 8 To 'be' a barbershopper: Theorizing music and self-identity -- 9 Conclusion: Beyond barbershop -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923) was one of the leading figures of the idealist movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in his obituary in the London Times, was described as having been 'the central figure of British philosophy for an entire generation.' Bosanquet's views fell out of favour in the decades after his death, but recently there has been a lively renewal of interest in European and British Idealism, the Idealist approach being recognized as providing valuable insights for contemporary debates in political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and logic. Idealism also serves as a bridge between the dominant philosophical traditions of twentieth century Anglo-American and continental thought, and, indeed, Bosanquet was among the first British philosophers to address the work of Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, and Edmund Husserl and to introduce these thinkers to an English-language audience.In Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, William Sweet and other leading scholars examine Bosanquet's contribution to some of philosophy's central questions. They provide a solid introduction to British Idealism and the idealist movement as a whole, and bring the scholarship on Bosanquet fully up-to-date

Persuasion has been extensively examined in broadcast contexts such as political speeches/debates and advertisements. In contrast, it has only been tangentiallyconsidered in relation to the increasingly popular lifestyle media. This is despite both scholarly consensus that these programmes actively promote certain lifestyles as desirable over others and that general views of these programmes being nothing more than trivial, mindless entertainment belie their influence on viewer patterns of living and spending time and money.In view of this, I examine the resources and strategies that the lifestyle media deploy in order to persuade viewers to pursue specific lifestyles, drawing upon a corpus of 45 episodes of British primetime television property shows. Textual analysis of this corpus reveals the shows' promotion of ready-made lifestyle packages which interlock material, lifestyle and identity choices and use ease and aesthetics as incentives. The analysis also focuses upon the shows' persuasive combination of two participation frameworks: diluted didactics and melodrama. This article therefore contributes to the current debate on the purchase of lifestyles in contemporary, mass-mediated societies by critically examining a broadcast genre in which lifestyles are not only showcased but persuasively offered to viewers.

British literary criticism in the 1930s was concerned with both aesthetics & the ideological exigencies of the period; & the works of Christopher Caudwell, Ralph Fox, & Alick West stand foremost in the critical discussions of Marxist-oriented novels, stories, & poems. This article plays particular attention to Caudwell's Romance and Realism: A Study of English Bourgeois Literature, Fox's The Novel and the People, & West's Crisis and Criticism. The three authors created a broad field of Marxist literary criticism & brought debate about the relationship of art to politics to a broader theoretical plane. Despite arguments that deny value in their works, the authors are seen as expanding the exploration of the interdependence of literature, criticism, & ideology. L. A. Hoffman

International audience ; In the past decade or so geographers have been arguing for more performative, practice-oriented and non-representational accounts of the ways in which people encounter, move through and inhabit landscapes, spaces and places. In this paper I argue that these theoretical concerns should also prompt geographers to explore the fairly long history of critical commentaries and aesthetic interventions by writers, artists, film-makers and landscape practitioners who have shown a sensibility to movement and embodied practices in the landscape. The paper then examines how landscape architects focused their attention on the movements, speed and visual perspective of vehicle drivers in their arguments for the landscaping and design of motorways in early postwar Britain. During the 1940s the Institute of Landscape Architects pushed for the involvement of their members in the landscaping and planting of all future roads, and prominent landscape architects criticized the tendency of local authorities and organizations such as the Roads Beautifying Association to plant ornamental trees and shrubs which would interrupt the flow of the landscape and distract drivers travelling at speed. Landscape architects such as Brenda Colvin, Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe argued for a focus on simplicity, flow and the visual perspective of drivers, and the government's Advisory Committee on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads applied similar criticisms to the work of Sir Owen Williams and Partners in designing and landscaping the earliest sections of Britain's first major motorway, the London to Yorkshire Motorway or M1. The paper examines how landscape architects pushed for a functional modernism to be constructed around the movements and speed of motorists, and it concludes by discussing how an admiration for foreign motorways was tempered by calls for a British motorway modernism reworked in regional and local settings.

In the past decade or so geographers have been arguing for more performative, practice-oriented and non-representational accounts of the ways in which people encounter, move through and inhabit landscapes, spaces and places. In this paper I argue that these theoretical concerns should also prompt geographers to explore the fairly long history of critical commentaries and aesthetic interventions by writers, artists, film-makers and landscape practitioners who have shown a sensibility to movement and embodied practices in the landscape. The paper then examines how landscape architects focused their attention on the movements, speed and visual perspective of vehicle drivers in their arguments for the landscaping and design of motorways in early postwar Britain. During the 1940s the Institute of Landscape Architects pushed for the involvement of their members in the landscaping and planting of all future roads, and prominent landscape architects criticized the tendency of local authorities and organizations such as the Roads Beautifying Association to plant ornamental trees and shrubs which would interrupt the flow of the landscape and distract drivers travelling at speed. Landscape architects such as Brenda Colvin, Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe argued for a focus on simplicity, flow and the visual perspective of drivers, and the government's Advisory Committee on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads applied similar criticisms to the work of Sir Owen Williams and Partners in designing and landscaping the earliest sections of Britain's first major motorway, the London to Yorkshire Motorway or M1. The paper examines how landscape architects pushed for a functional modernism to be constructed around the movements and speed of motorists, and it concludes by discussing how an admiration for foreign motorways was tempered by calls for a British motorway modernism reworked in regional and local settings.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ritual, Ceremonial, Order and the Aesthetics of Simplicity -- Defining the Ideal Memorial -- Bolshevism and the Returning Ex-Servicemen -- Ceremonial, Ritual and Simplicity -- Silence -- The Cenotaph -- Simplicity and Uniformity: The Imperial War Graves -- 2 Class Conflict, the New Man and the Picturesque Soldier -- The National Union of Railwaymen Strike of 1919 -- The New Man -- The Central Labour College -- Banners and Revolution -- The London and North Western Railway Memorial -- The Picturesque Soldier -- Unconquerable Manhood -- Fear, Attention and Discipline -- Silence, Stillness and Discipline -- 3 Abjection, Idealisation, Trauma and Acting-Out of Masculinities in the Inter-War Years -- Controversy -- The Man Constructed - The Gun, Gunner and the Ideal Man -- The Symbiosis of Gun and Gunner -- The Abjected Inside -- Trauma and Class -- Trauma and Sexuality -- Acting-Out - The Case of Lt. Col. Graham Seton Hutchison -- Reconstructing the Man -- 4 Unveiling Polished Guns/Veiling Fragile Masculinities -- Establishing the Imperial War Museum -- Personal/Public: Collecting Souvenirs for the IWM -- Collecting Mammals -- Collecting, Authenticating, and Containing the Trauma of War -- The War Photographic Album -- Recycling Guns -- Exhibiting Guns -- The Memorial to the Fallen -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index