Anne Witchard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5446763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Witchard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Witchard |
| SIGNATURE | WITCHARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
John Bull in a China Shop
Punch; or The London Charivari needs little introduction to readers of this journal but, as Amy Matthewson asserts at the start of Cartooning China, the usefulness of Punch’s cartoons to historians of the Victorian period, for buttressing an argument or to illustrate a point, results in an inevitable selectivity. Not only does such scholarly selectivity have the propensity for obscuring political complexity or underestimating diversity of opinion…
“The Ancient East in the West End”
Given that Fauvist, Futurist, Rhythmist and Vorticist painting and sculpture took dance and the dancer as an endlessly inspirational point of departure in their exploration of what Clive Bell termed “significant form,” Modernist scholarship has remained neglectful of the mutual borrowings of this synaesthetic relationship. “Above all let us dance and devise dances” wrote Bell, enthused by Henri Bergson’s espousal of rhythmic sequence and gesture …
The Suburbs – A Promise Made Good
The Suburbs – A Promise Made Good The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture: by Sarah Bilston, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2019, vii + 296 pp., 20 b-w illustrations, £30 (hardback), ISBN 9780300179330 Anne Witchard Anne Witchard University of Westminster E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, V…
Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle, a demonology of race and vice masked by outward concerns about degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial decline. Anne Witchard's interdisciplinar…
British Modernism and Chinoiserie
Lao She in London
Lao She's life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. This book reveals Lao She's encounter with literature in England, from Dickens to Conrad, high modernism and Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsberries, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every …
Wilkie Collins
This addition to Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series contributes to the growing scholarly reappraisal of Wilkie Collins's work. It draws on the newly available correspondence published in The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005), of which Law is an editor. A large proportion of these letters are concerned with the business side of writing, and here correspondence is mined for fresh insight…
A Threepenny Omnibus Ticket to ‘Limey-housey-Causey-way’
A Threepenny Omnibus Ticket to 'Limey-housey-Causey-way': fictional sojourns in Chinatown But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son, pathfinders and trail-clearers, living signposts to all the world and bestowers of first aid to bewildered travelersunhesitatingly and instantly, with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone's throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the …
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A Threepenny Omnibus Ticket to ‘Limey-housey-Causey-way’
A Threepenny Omnibus Ticket to 'Limey-housey-Causey-way': fictional sojourns in Chinatown But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son, pathfinders and trail-clearers, living signposts to all the world and bestowers of first aid to bewildered travelersunhesitatingly and instantly, with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone's throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the …
Wilkie Collins
This addition to Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series contributes to the growing scholarly reappraisal of Wilkie Collins's work. It draws on the newly available correspondence published in The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005), of which Law is an editor. A large proportion of these letters are concerned with the business side of writing, and here correspondence is mined for fresh insight…
Lao She in London
Lao She's life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. This book reveals Lao She's encounter with literature in England, from Dickens to Conrad, high modernism and Joyce. Lao She arrived from his native Peking to the whirl of London's West End scene - Bloomsberries, Vorticists, avant-gardists of every …
British Modernism and Chinoiserie
Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle, a demonology of race and vice masked by outward concerns about degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial decline. Anne Witchard's interdisciplinar…
The Suburbs – A Promise Made Good
The Suburbs – A Promise Made Good The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture: by Sarah Bilston, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2019, vii + 296 pp., 20 b-w illustrations, £30 (hardback), ISBN 9780300179330 Anne Witchard Anne Witchard University of Westminster E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, V…
“The Ancient East in the West End”
Given that Fauvist, Futurist, Rhythmist and Vorticist painting and sculpture took dance and the dancer as an endlessly inspirational point of departure in their exploration of what Clive Bell termed “significant form,” Modernist scholarship has remained neglectful of the mutual borrowings of this synaesthetic relationship. “Above all let us dance and devise dances” wrote Bell, enthused by Henri Bergson’s espousal of rhythmic sequence and gesture …
John Bull in a China Shop
Punch; or The London Charivari needs little introduction to readers of this journal but, as Amy Matthewson asserts at the start of Cartooning China, the usefulness of Punch’s cartoons to historians of the Victorian period, for buttressing an argument or to illustrate a point, results in an inevitable selectivity. Not only does such scholarly selectivity have the propensity for obscuring political complexity or underestimating diversity of opinion…
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