Amusing the Million, John F. Kasson

Автор: John F. Kasson
Название: Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
ISBN: 0809055473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809055470
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians

In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were.

When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the Perfect Man, representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung down a vine into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity -- bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body -- with exhibiting it and with the perils to it --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.

Автор: Kasson Fiss, Laura
Название: Idler`s club
ISBN: 1474497144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474497145
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibility. Their humorous, fictional clubs aided the social mobility of the authors who created them, who in turn served as models for the readers who might never cross the literal thresholds of Clubland.

Автор: Pauly D. Alan
Название: Kassondra 2
ISBN: 1532069529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532069529
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Описание: Rebecca Marshall is a widowed mother of two, living in a small town in Colorado. Her major concern is getting through another day financially and emotionally intact with her two children. But centuries away, in a primitive country besieged by an evil wizard, forces are at work to draw Rebecca back to her destiny-a destiny that has followed her through countless incarnations and is now demanding to be fulfilled.