Sex, Fashion, Work: James Joyce and the Late-Victorian Actress

Literature and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

The Late Surgeon James Fawcus

Fashion and passion: marketing sex to women

Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers. In the UK, the success of TV shows like Sex and the City and the ‘fashion ‘n’ passion’ of sex emporia like Ann Summers suggests that late twentieth century discourses which foregrounded female pleasure have crystallised in a...

My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition

JAMES JOYCE, My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1977, pp. v, 35, [no price stated]. With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history. It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical ...

Spencer Wells, the Life and Work of a Victorian Surgeon

been teaching anatomy for some two years, but Morgan immediately took it upon himself to arrange the opening of a medical school attached to the College of Philadelphia, without any consultation with his erstwhile fellow student. Morgan's remarkable inaugural lecture in May 1765, A Discourse upon the Institution ofMedical Schools in America was the climax of his career, and his plans and recomm...