scholarly journals Pornography, Society, and the Law In Imperial Germany

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Stark
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Attitudes Toward Sex ◽  
The Masses

In recent years, the popular literature of the masses (so-called Trivialliteratur) has received increasing attention from literary and cultural historians, as has the response of the social elite to this form of popular culture. Yet few scholars have seriously investigated the history of what must surely be one of the most pervasive genres of mass literature: pornography. This is unfortunate since (as Steven Marcus has shown in his pioneering study of sexuality in Victorian England) the view of human sexuality that surfaces in a society's pornographic subculture is often a reflection, however distorted or reversed, of officially sanctioned attitudes toward sex. Likewise, the extent to which a society seeks to control a popular phenomenon like pornography is an indication of the fears, both conscious and unconscious, harbored toward that object; stigmatization and repression of pornographic literature helps define and uphold the authority of socially sanctioned sexual norms, while at the same time revealing something about how stable or vulnerable that society imagines its established values to be.

The Struggle of My Life

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Intractable Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Freedom Movement

The present work, The Struggle of My Life: An Autobiography of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, is an English translation of Sahajanand’s autobiography, written in Hindi, Mera Jeevan Sangarsh. It carries an introduction by the translator which briefly deals with the Swami’s life and legacy. It needs to be emphasized that this is not an autobiography in the common run. Its primary focus is not on Swami’s persona; its central theme is the cause of the freedom movement in general and in particular, of the peasant movement under his leadership. It tells of the life and legacy of one of the most uncompromising and fearless freedom fighters and peasant leaders. It covers the social and political history of one of the most crucial periods of our national life, 1920–47. Today, when the Indian peasantry is faced with a number of intractable problems, it reminds them of the struggles of the peasants of yesteryears and the kind of trials and tribulations they went through. It is also remarkable that despite his vast learning and command over Sanskrit, Swami chose to write in simple, colloquial Hindi. That only speaks for his total identification with the masses. Both the teaching and student community as well as general readers would find this book useful, interesting and intellectually stimulating.

Modernity within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany.

1994 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Jack Wertheimer ◽  
Mordechai Breuer ◽  
Elizabeth Petuchowski
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals FRENCH CROSSINGS: II. LAUGHING OVER BOUNDARIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Lower Body ◽  
French Society ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Dangerous Object ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancien Régime

ABSTRACTUnder the generic title, ‘French Crossings’, this Presidential Address explores the history of laughter in French society, and humour's potential for trangressing boundaries. It focuses on the irreverent and almost entirely unknown book of comic drawings entitledLivre de caricatures tant Bonnes que mauvaises(Book of Caricatures, both Good and Bad), that was composed between the 1740s and the mid-1770s by the luxury Parisian embroiderer and designer, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, and his friends and family. The bawdy laughter that the book seems intended to provoke gave it its nickname of theLivre de culs(Book of Arses). Yet despite the scatological character of many of the drawings, the humour often conjoined lower body functions with rather cerebral and erudite wit. The laughter provoked unsparingly targeted and exposed to ridicule the social elite, cultural celebrities and political leaders of Ancien Régime France. This made it a dangerous object, which was kept strictly secret. Was this humour somehow pre- or proto-Revolutionary? In fact, the work is so embedded in the culture of the Ancien Régime that 1789 was one boundary that the work signally fails to cross.

Public School Elites in Early-Victorian England: The Boys at Harrow and Merchant Taylors' Schools from 1825 to 1850

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One

Historians agree that the public schools played a central role in the creation of Victorian society and that in particular they were seminal in the construction of that “mid-Victorian compromise” which made the mid-century an era of “balance,” “equipoise,” and accommodation. There is further agreement that the cadre of boys produced by the newly reformed public schools became that mid-Victorian governing and social elite which was at once larger, more broadly based, more professional and, to many, more talented than the one which preceded it. The importance of the public schools in this regard was, as Asa Briggs affirms, twofold. They assimilated the “representatives of old families with the sons of the new middle classes,” thereby creating the “social amalgam” which, in Briggs' view, “cemented old and new ruling groups which had previously remained apart.” Secondly, the singular expression of that amalgamation was an elite type, the “Christian Gentleman”—the result of an “education in character” administered under the influence of Dr. Arnold. Arnold was able to do this because he “reconciled the serious classes” (that is, the commercial middle class) “to the public schools,” sharing as he did “their faith in progress, goodness, and their own vocation.” At first, the schools “attracted primarily the sons of the nobility, gentry and professional classes.” Later, it was the “sons of the leaders of industry” who were, like earlier generations of boys, amalgamated with “the sons of men of different traditions” in a broadened “conception of a gentleman.”

scholarly journals The Life and Achievements of Hyder Bux Jatoi, With an Special Reference to His Social and Political Contributions

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (No 1) ◽  
pp. 218-231
Author(s):  
Daleel Khan Jatoi ◽  
Muhammad Farshad ◽  
Uzma Murad Panhwar
Keyword(s):  
Land Ownership ◽  
Agricultural History ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Political Contributions ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Ownership Rights

Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi, also known as ‘Baba e Sindh’, was the most prominent leader of the farmer societies of pre-independence Pakistan. Although he was a bureaucrat turned into a farmer activist, but later he played a very important role in the social and political settings of the country at that time. Most of the Pakistani people remember him as a sign of change and renovation in the agricultural history of Pakistan. This was a great effort to credit the front-runners and their struggle; it is very prominent among the laborers and landless leaders of the world. He devoted his entire life to set peace up for the struggle of land ownership rights to dispossessed farmers, and highlighted the cause, to be noticed by the notables. The vision of Mr. Jatoi is still reflected in many situations when initiatives are taken by the various governments of the world to provide the masses with the basic requirements of development and peace.

K. Chekalov. Of popular literature in a popular manner. Gaston Leroux and mass literature in France during the Belle Époque

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-287
Author(s):  
V. V. Shervashidze
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Pivotal Moments ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Language

The review covers K. Chekalov’s monograph on the problems of mass literature and the literary legacy of Gaston Leroux. The author chose one of the pivotal moments in the history of French literature: a transition period, which, according to Bakhtin’s law on borderlines and transitions, combines adherence to traditions as well as revision of the existing systems. This topic has so far remained unexplored by Russian scholars, just like the works of Leroux, whose role in establishing the genre of detective fiction is enormous. No research has been dedicated to his oeuvre in Russia. Only a meager share of his works has been translated into the Russian language. The choice of such a topic implies the relevance and novelty of the research. The purpose of the book is to create a solid basis for further exploration of this complex phenomenon, which determined the book’s structure, comprising six chapters and a closing summary.

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