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Victorian Cilophytes Pins (Vintage pictures and prints hand painted into Octopus Women)
$20 each at Near-Future Design on Etsy.
These pendants, taken from Victorian daguerreotypes, fashion plates, and paintings, are hand painted to create these one of a kind pieces.
Currently available are:
*Round piece with gold tentacles entering from left (no closeup)
*Oval piece with a black woman with gold tentacles
*White oval piece with a woman in hat and white and blue tentacles
*Squared piece with a woman seated, surrounded by black and white tentacles
These are pin-backed pieces! The pins are mounted vertically so that you may wear them as a pin or as a pendant on a chain, check out the last image in the set!
For more designs please visit the rest of the shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/nearfuturedesign or order custom work please contact us using the link below.
Have any questions? Contact the shop owner.
(via BiblioVault - The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882)
In The Eternal Paddy, Michael de Nie examines anti-Irish prejudice, Anglo-Irish relations, and the construction of Irish and British identities in nineteenth-century Britain. This book provides a new, more inclusive approach to the study of Irish identity as perceived by Britons and demonstrates that ideas of race were inextricably connected with class concerns and religious prejudice in popular views of both peoples. De Nie suggests that while traditional anti-Irish stereotypes were fundamental to British views of Ireland, equally important were a collection of sympathetic discourses and a self-awareness of British prejudice. In the pages of the British newspaper press, this dialogue created a deep ambivalence about the Irish people, an ambivalence that allowed most Britons to assume that the root of Ireland’s difficulties lay in its Irishness.
Drawing on more than ninety newspapers published in England, Scotland, and Wales, The Eternal Paddy offers the first major detailed analysis of British press coverage of Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book traces the evolution of popular understandings and proposed solutions to the “Irish question,” focusing particularly on the interrelationship between the press, the public, and the politicians. The work also engages with ongoing studies of imperialism and British identity, exploring the role of Catholic Ireland in British perceptions of their own identity and their empire.
Sometimes I think the list of books being pulled for short-run print is basically trying to taunt FS.
Here’s the “About the Author”
Michael de Nie is assistant professor of history at the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA.
Although we take it for granted today, the concept of “energy” transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers; to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism; and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility.
Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as “actual” and “potential” energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of “energy”—a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization—became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.
Crosbie Smith is reader in History and Cultural Studies of Science and director of the Centre for History and Cultural Studies of Science at Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. He is coauthor of Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin and coeditor of Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge.
Apparently, the University of Chicago Press is trying to kill us with history of science from the Victorian era…guess I already know what this year’s bonus is going toward.
From 1988, but an interesting collection of material to work with:
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Drawing on a wide range of sources—parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity—Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women’s issues from economic and political histories.”
(via BiblioVault - Victorian Science in Context)
Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science—which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University, Toronto, editor of the journal Isis, editor of Victorian Science in Context, and coeditor of Science in the Marketplace, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
I swear I’m not entirely trying to tempt FS…
Oh, Punch, how do we love you?
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Punch… That’s roots, baby. The artist here, I believe, is George Du Maurier and the engraver Joseph Swain. Du Maurier, as a bit of trivia, is the grandfather of the five boys that inspired J.M. Barrie to write Peter Pan.Spiritualism Made Useful
Punch December 14th 1876
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(via BiblioVault - Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain)
Ebbeh! Want!
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society’s authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
Upcoming from Ohio UP. Noticed this today while thinking good thoughts for FindingSherlock as she was giving her presentation. I take it as a good sign.
(via BiblioVault - The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture)
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Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that “let off steam” or feel “under pressure.” The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the vital and the mechanical, the human and the nonhuman, in surprisingly hybrid and productive alliances. Challenging accounts of industrial alienation that still persist, the author defines mechanical character and feeling not as erasures or negations of self, but as robust and nuanced entities in their own right. The Lives of Machines thus offers an alternate cultural history that traces sympathies between humans, animals, and machines in novels and nonfiction about factory work as well as in other unexpected literary sites and genres, whether domestic, scientific, musical, or philosophical. Ketabgian historicizes a model of affect and community that continues to inform recent theories of technology, psychology, and the posthuman. The Lives of Machines will be of interest to students of British literature and history, history of science and of technology, novel studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodern cultural studies.” Wants to read it! Wants!
Thank god it’s electric. (Well, magnetic, but, you know, whatever.) I mean, otherwise I’d have to rely on simple forces of tension to crush my organs.
From the Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times. 31st December 1892.
A great insight into fashion, medical treatment (or miss-treatment) and plain silliness Victorian style.
This advert was placed by the Medical Battery Company. The corset advertised was not so much electric, but in fact magnetic. Magnetised steel plates inside the front of the corset allowed for fastening.
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