Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carley is a paranoic?whether or not he is an intellectual Christ. But for all that, it is an original, vivid novel. In detail, its realism fails occasionally? especially in dialogue?but the total effect of its realism is good. It is not to be recommended to the Victorian-minded. Its subject, honestly treated, precludes that...
...writes Simon Louis Katzoff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical...
Scandal in the Homes of the Rich The Story. Joyce Gathway was not in any sense mid-Victorian...
...sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment and unexiting domesticity will itself be revolted against. And then these literary dinosaur eggs will become as petrified as those of Pope's clan...
...satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems to be not a page in this collection of stories to which one can return with admiration and warmth, saying, "Here is good writing! Here the austerity of loveliness has been touched, here...