Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “david worrall”
Skip side bar filters

  • Sonification Design

    From Data to Intelligible Soundfields

    de David Worrall ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The contemporary design practice known as data sonification allows us to experience information in data by listening. In doing so, we understand the source of the data in ways that support, and in some cases surpass, our ability to do so visually.In order to assist us in negotiating our environments, our senses have evolved differently. Our hearing affords us unparalleled temporal and locational ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • William Blake's Visions

    Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

    de David Worrall ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Celebrity, Performance, Reception

    British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage

    de David Worrall ...
    By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • The 'perpetual fair'

    Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

    de Anne Wohlcke ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edición de Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond the Frame

    Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900

    de Deborah Cherry ...
    Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

    de Lawrence Manley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Companion to British Art

    1600 to the Present

    Edición de David Peters Corbett ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Art History
    This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history.A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British artCombines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the fieldTouches ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • The birth of modern London

    de Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The period 1660–1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This work for the first time examines in detail the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Edición de Jonathan Conlin ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Treading the bawds

    Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage

    de Gilli Bush-Bailey ...
    Series series Women, Theatre and Performance
    Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, ‘Treading the bawds’ analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player’s co-operative.Bush-Bailey offers a ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain

    1770-1823

    de Ruth Scobie ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidencedby the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD