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Джудит Фландерс - Сотворение дома

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Джудит Фландерс - Сотворение дома

Джудит Фландерс, историк и автор бестселлеров о викторианских постройках и викторианском городе, размышляет о том, какие изменения за последние 500 лет претерпел дом и само понятие о нем. На примере Европы и Америки автор прослеживает, как, постепенно совершенствуя свое жилище, человек обрастал все новыми и новыми предметами и наконец пришел к тому дому, в котором с теми или иными особенностями живут наши современники. По «пути следования» от XVI к XXI веку Фландерс живо и увлекательно рассказывает о том, когда и как появились первые столы, стулья и туалеты, где изначально «жили» кровати и почему люди ввели в обиход шторы и скатерти, а также о многих других бытовых предметах. Особое внимание автор уделяет тому, как заключались браки и строились семейные отношения, как растили детей и во что их одевали. Ну а главная мысль автора заключается в том, что дом – это совершенно особое, отдельное место, где мы принадлежим только самим себе и можем быть только собой.

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Джудит Фландерс - The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition.The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories – even lavatory paper – arrived slowly throughout the century, and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.Judith Flanders, author of the widely acclaimed ‘A Circle of Sisters’, has written an incisive and irresistible portrait of Victorian domestic life. The book itself is laid out like a house, following the story of daily life from room to room: from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery, kitchen and dining room – cleaning, dining, entertaining – on upwards, ending in the sickroom and death.Through a collage of diaries, letters, advice books, magazines and paintings, Flanders shows how social history is built up out of tiny domestic details. Through these we can understand the desires, motivations and thoughts of the age.Many people today live in Victorian terraces, and so the houses themselves are familiar, but the lives are not. ‘The Victorian House’ will change all that.

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Джудит Фландерс - The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and entertainment were firmly entwined.In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders, author of Consuming Passions, takes us back in time to explore some of the most gripping, gruesome and mind-boggling murders of the nineteenth-century. Covering the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, as well as the lesser known but equally shocking acts of Burke and Hare, and Thurtell and Hunt, Flanders looks at how murder was regarded by the wider British population – and how it became a form of popular entertainment.Filled to the brim with rich source material – ranging from studies of plays, novels and contemporary newspaper articles, A Social History of Murder brings to life a neglected dimension of British social history in a completely new and exciting way.

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Джудит Фландерс - Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot drink. That was what England was like in the early eighteenth century. Yet by the close of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways, mines and machines but also fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure.Leisure became an industry – a cornucopia of excitement for the masses – and it was spread by newspapers, advertising, promotions and publicity – all of which were eighteenth-century creations. It was Josiah Wedgwood and his colleagues who invented money-back guarantees, free delivery and celebrity endorsements. New technology such as the railways brought audiences to ever-more-elaborate extravaganzas, whether it was theatrical spectaculars with breathtaking pyrotechnics and hundreds of extras – ‘hippodramas' recreating the battle of Waterloo – or the Great Exhibition itself, proudly displaying 'the products of all quarters of the globe' under twenty-two acres of the sparkling 'Crystal Palace'.In ‘Consuming Passions’, the bestselling author of ‘The Victorian House’ explores this dramatic revolution in science, technology and industry – and how a world of thrilling sensation, lavish spectacle and unimaginable theatricality was born.

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Джудит Фландерс - Всему свое место. Необыкновенная история алфавитного порядка

Книга историка Джудит Фландерс исследует, как алфавит организовал наш мир. Включая элементы академического исследования и захватывающей беллетристики, она рассказывает о различных символических системах, связанных с алфавитом, которые помогли нам организовать наши представления о реальности. В этой книге читателя ожидает путешествие от истоков цивилизации до нашего времени, чтобы узнать, как люди, такие как Сэмюэль Пипс и Дени Дидро, разработали способы фиксации информации и систематизации накопленных знаний с помощью алфавита. Название книги отражает всесторонний подход автора: она охватывает историю лингвистики, возникновение каталогов и историю книгоиздания от Александрийской библиотеки до «Википедии». В общем, эта книга является источником знаний от А до Я (или от A до Z).