1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911104366603321

Autore

John Angela V

Titolo

Elizabeth Robins : staging a life, 1862-1952 / / Angela V. John

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-92683-9

1-134-92684-7

1-280-04668-6

0-203-41319-9

0-203-31635-5

9780203413197

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

813.4B

813/.4 B

818.5209

Soggetti

Women novelists, American - 19th century

Actresses - United States

Actresses - England

Feminists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; WHITHER  HOW?; THE OPEN QUESTION; IBSEN  THE ACTRESS; THEATRE AND FRIENDSHIP; COME AND FIND ME; THE MAGNETIC NORTH; THE CONVERT; WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO?; ANCILLA'S SHARE; TIME IS WHISPERING; Appendices; Elizabeth Robins's major publications; Elizabeth Robins's writings on women's suffrage; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the life and work



of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950's, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identitiy

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911144475903321

Autore

Simonson Peter

Titolo

Handbook of Communication History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-91940-0

0-203-14911-4

1-136-51431-7

9780203149119

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 p.)

Collana

ICA Handbook Series

Altri autori (Persone)

PeckJanice

CraigRobert T

JacksonJohn

Disciplina

302.209

Soggetti

Communication - History

Communication -- History

Journalism & Communications

Communication & Mass Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Handbook Of Communication History; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Field; 1. The History of Communication History; 2. Media; 3. Communication Research; Part II: Modes; 4.  Audiences: Publics, Crowds, Mass; 5. Rhetoric in Cross-Cultural Perspectives; 6. Conversation; 7. Visual Communication; 8. Communication in Music; Part III:Media; 9. Print Culture; 10. Journalism; 11. Telecommunications; 12. Radio Broadcasting; 13. Television; 14. New Media; Part IV: Society; 15. The City; 16. Science Communication; 17. Politics; 18. Labor



19. War20. Gender and Media: A Very Short Herstory; 21. Race; 22. Organizing; Part V: World; 23 Rhetoric in Latin America; 24. "Cultural Imperialism" Revisited: Broadcasting in Latin America, India, and China; 25. Communication in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southern Africa; 26. Islam, Mediation, and Technology; 27. Jewish Media and Communication in the Modern Age; 28. East Asian Communication Studies; Epilogue: The Futures of Communication; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of commun