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‘Anything but indifferent’: the Warburg Institute’s Library Classification System [PDF]
, 2017 Essay presented in 2016 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM303 - Information Organisation, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. Abstract: This essay is a report on The Warburg
Mariana Strassacapa Ou
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‘What I have done Violent’: Hopkins and Violence
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 The paper, broadly set at the intersection of poetry with theology and, to a lesser extent, civilisation, attempts to examine Hopkins’s attitude to violence and the ways in which he is attracted to it and exploits it in his poetry.
Adrian Grafe
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Voir la musique chez James McNeill Whistler
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Whistler occupies a unique position in Britain as both practitioner and theoretician of musicalism in art. A herald of modern painting, he also became emblematic of the avant-garde artist for writers and painters alike during his trial against Ruskin in ...
Catherine Delyfer
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Sport as Spectacle: Swimming in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 The development of sport during the Victorian and Edwardian period, from a predominantly rural activity pursued mainly by the landed gentry to a mass participation and spectator activity pursued in an urban setting by the middle and working classes, was ...
Win Hayes
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L’art du paradoxe wildien : transgression, subversion ou inversion ?
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Oscar Wilde’s works can be seen as paradoxical since they confront the ideology of his age. As an iconoclast, he exposes truisms, commonplaces and prejudices, which he examines from a decentered, possibly eccentric perspective.
Gilbert Pham-Thanh
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021 While research on material culture has focused abundantly on objects of everyday life as a way of observing societies and understanding our past, only in recent times has it concerned itself with the study of those related to cinema, one of the ‘more ...
Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 These two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However,
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021 The Napoleonic campaigns paved the way for French metropolitan travellers, military officers and literary authors to roam the barren stretches of North African deserts. Initially, imperial expansion was what brought French explorers to these lands.
Amina Zarzi
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The Disraeli Roads of Anfield, Urban Renewal and Sporting Culture
Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensAt the tail end of the Victorian era, professional football was an emerging cultural development within British society. Expanding industrial cities such as Liverpool subsequently saw the emergence of large footballing venues typified by Anfield football
Ben Williams
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La poésie féminine victorienne ou comment donner un sexe aux anges ?
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Although women had to fit a specific social position that they had been allocated in the middle of the 19th century, women poets resexualized the angelic figure of the woman as they chose to reveal sexual pleasure through writing about lesbian ...
Fabienne Moine Perez
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