Christopher A. Whatley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845860912
- eISBN:
- 9781474406062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860912.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
Many historians of Victorian Dundee have based their portrayals of what they perceive to be a grim industrial town on the ‘anonymous’ Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This chapter begins ...
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Many historians of Victorian Dundee have based their portrayals of what they perceive to be a grim industrial town on the ‘anonymous’ Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This chapter begins by examining the authenticity of Chapters. The revised account of the provenance and purpose of the book reveals that the real author of Chapters, James Myles, had a rather different view of early industrial Britain than that with which he has usually been identified by misreadings of his text. The second section shows that depictions of Dundee as a ‘frontier town’, lacking ‘traditional and stable relationships’ and severed by class division, are deficient. The third and final section explains the emergence of relatively peaceful social relations in the two decades which followed the final Chartist uprising.Less
Many historians of Victorian Dundee have based their portrayals of what they perceive to be a grim industrial town on the ‘anonymous’ Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This chapter begins by examining the authenticity of Chapters. The revised account of the provenance and purpose of the book reveals that the real author of Chapters, James Myles, had a rather different view of early industrial Britain than that with which he has usually been identified by misreadings of his text. The second section shows that depictions of Dundee as a ‘frontier town’, lacking ‘traditional and stable relationships’ and severed by class division, are deficient. The third and final section explains the emergence of relatively peaceful social relations in the two decades which followed the final Chartist uprising.
David Forrest and Sue Vice
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781784992620
- eISBN:
- 9781526132208
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992620.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several ...
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This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several novels and screenplays which were never published or produced. We argue throughout that Hines’s best-known works are deservedly his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, and the 1984 atomic-war drama Threads. Both works have become central elements of British cultural history, A Kestrel for a Knave for its portrait of a schoolboy who tries to transcend his limited circumstances, Threads for its powerful portrayal of ordinary lives and communities destroyed by a nuclear attack. Yet the poetic realism that characterizes these works is evident in the very wide range of other kinds of writing that Hines produced, over the forty years of his writing life. Hines’s other works draw on the themes that preoccupied him, including injustice and deprivation, in relation to fiction and scripts about coal-mining, landowners, football, education and gender, culminating in works that represented Britain as multicultural and post-industrial nation. We argue that Hines’s entire oeuvre is as deserving of attention as that given to his best-known works.Less
This book analyses all of Barry Hines’s written works, including fiction, screenplays for film and television and scripts for the theatre. We draw on Barry Hines’s archive, in which appear several novels and screenplays which were never published or produced. We argue throughout that Hines’s best-known works are deservedly his 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, and the 1984 atomic-war drama Threads. Both works have become central elements of British cultural history, A Kestrel for a Knave for its portrait of a schoolboy who tries to transcend his limited circumstances, Threads for its powerful portrayal of ordinary lives and communities destroyed by a nuclear attack. Yet the poetic realism that characterizes these works is evident in the very wide range of other kinds of writing that Hines produced, over the forty years of his writing life. Hines’s other works draw on the themes that preoccupied him, including injustice and deprivation, in relation to fiction and scripts about coal-mining, landowners, football, education and gender, culminating in works that represented Britain as multicultural and post-industrial nation. We argue that Hines’s entire oeuvre is as deserving of attention as that given to his best-known works.
Amy Woodson-Boulton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778046
- eISBN:
- 9780804780537
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778046.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, this book examines the underlying logic of the ...
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Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, this book examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism. Deeply engaged with the social criticism of John Ruskin, reformers created a new, prominent urban institution, a domesticated public space that not only aimed to provide refuge from the corrosive effects of industrial society, but also provided a remarkably unified secular alternative to traditional religion. The author raises provocative questions about the meaning and use of art in relation to artistic practice, urban development, social justice, education, and class. In today's context of global austerity and shrinking government support of public cultural institutions, this book is a timely consideration of arts policy and purposes in modern society.Less
Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, this book examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism. Deeply engaged with the social criticism of John Ruskin, reformers created a new, prominent urban institution, a domesticated public space that not only aimed to provide refuge from the corrosive effects of industrial society, but also provided a remarkably unified secular alternative to traditional religion. The author raises provocative questions about the meaning and use of art in relation to artistic practice, urban development, social justice, education, and class. In today's context of global austerity and shrinking government support of public cultural institutions, this book is a timely consideration of arts policy and purposes in modern society.
Jim Tomlinson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748686148
- eISBN:
- 9781474400817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686148.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter examines the impact of globalisation and empire upon industrial Britain by focusing on the case of the Scottish city of Dundee as Juteopolis. Economic historians have suggested that ...
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This chapter examines the impact of globalisation and empire upon industrial Britain by focusing on the case of the Scottish city of Dundee as Juteopolis. Economic historians have suggested that falling transport costs combined with reductions in trade barriers triggered a rise in trade volumes in the nineteenth century. These processes have been most intensively studied for trade across the North Atlantic, where the expansion of the grain traded from North America into European markets epitomised much of what was happening. The expansion of trade in the North Atlantic was closely associated with two other key features of contemporary globalisation: the multiplication of international capital flows and migration. Within this fast-expanding multilateral trading system, India became a linchpin in the run-up to World War I by being a major global supplier of raw materials and foodstuffs. Meanwhile, Dundee was at the centre of the process of imperial globalisation, with its jute industry contributing on a large scale to the British outflows of capital and migrants. This chapter considers the competition between Calcutta and Dundee in the area of jute production.Less
This chapter examines the impact of globalisation and empire upon industrial Britain by focusing on the case of the Scottish city of Dundee as Juteopolis. Economic historians have suggested that falling transport costs combined with reductions in trade barriers triggered a rise in trade volumes in the nineteenth century. These processes have been most intensively studied for trade across the North Atlantic, where the expansion of the grain traded from North America into European markets epitomised much of what was happening. The expansion of trade in the North Atlantic was closely associated with two other key features of contemporary globalisation: the multiplication of international capital flows and migration. Within this fast-expanding multilateral trading system, India became a linchpin in the run-up to World War I by being a major global supplier of raw materials and foodstuffs. Meanwhile, Dundee was at the centre of the process of imperial globalisation, with its jute industry contributing on a large scale to the British outflows of capital and migrants. This chapter considers the competition between Calcutta and Dundee in the area of jute production.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226542010
- eISBN:
- 9780226542003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226542003.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter focuses on the crucial sciences of electricity and heat. The chapter looks at how developments in electricity emerged from concerns with showmanship and utility and how the new science ...
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This chapter focuses on the crucial sciences of electricity and heat. The chapter looks at how developments in electricity emerged from concerns with showmanship and utility and how the new science of heat responded to the problem of maximizing the efficiency of steam engines in industrial Britain. Throughout the nineteenth century, the most visible of the physical sciences in many ways was the burgeoning science of electricity. Electricity provided the technology for a whole range of vivid and spectacular demonstrations of nature's powers, and of man's powers over nature. As the century advanced electricity gave rise to a whole range of new industrial technologies as well. These kinds of links between electricity and the worlds of showmanship and industry were hardly new by the nineteenth century. Exhibition played a crucial role in nineteenth-century culture for a number of reasons. In many ways exhibitionism became more culturally acceptable as the nineteenth century went on. In the first decades of the century, while showmanship was certainly central to the natural philosopher's activities that showmanship was restricted to a particular context. Electricity's very visibility and the way in which it increasingly permeated Victorian culture made its disciplining increasingly crucial.Less
This chapter focuses on the crucial sciences of electricity and heat. The chapter looks at how developments in electricity emerged from concerns with showmanship and utility and how the new science of heat responded to the problem of maximizing the efficiency of steam engines in industrial Britain. Throughout the nineteenth century, the most visible of the physical sciences in many ways was the burgeoning science of electricity. Electricity provided the technology for a whole range of vivid and spectacular demonstrations of nature's powers, and of man's powers over nature. As the century advanced electricity gave rise to a whole range of new industrial technologies as well. These kinds of links between electricity and the worlds of showmanship and industry were hardly new by the nineteenth century. Exhibition played a crucial role in nineteenth-century culture for a number of reasons. In many ways exhibitionism became more culturally acceptable as the nineteenth century went on. In the first decades of the century, while showmanship was certainly central to the natural philosopher's activities that showmanship was restricted to a particular context. Electricity's very visibility and the way in which it increasingly permeated Victorian culture made its disciplining increasingly crucial.
