Beardsley Men in Early Twentieth-Century Russia: Modernising Decadent Masculinity

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-215
Author(s):  
Sasha Dovzhyk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Mikhail Kuzmin

This article explores the reception of the Decadent artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) in Russia concentrating on new gendered meanings acquired by ‘Beardsleyism’ in modernist Russian culture. While the so-called ‘Beardsley Woman’ became a widely discussed literary construct and journalistic trope in Britain, the imagination of Russian artists and literati was captured by a ‘Beardsley Man’. Due to the circulation of the artist's portraits and descriptions by modernist periodicals such as Sergei Diaghilev's Mir iskusstva (1899–1904), a specific form of male (self-)representation emerged in the homophile art circles of St Petersburg and Moscow. Exploring this new urban Russian masculinity, I use the case studies of four men who were compared to Beardsley or used Beardsley as a model in their work and self-fashioning: artist Nikolai Feofilaktov, poet Georgii Ivanov, writers Mikhail Kuzmin and Iurii Iurkun.

Closing the Frontier: Two Early Twentieth-Century Case Studies

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
Malcolm J. Rohrbough ◽  
John Thompson ◽  
John Fahey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Women’s Experiences of Prostitution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Settle
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Collective Biography ◽  
Historical Agency

This chapter uses poor law, census, police, magistrates and prison records relating to over eight-hundred women, alongside in-depth case studies of individuals, to examine the major themes that shaped the lives of women involved in prostitution in Scotland during the early twentieth century. The chapter explores various reasons why women entered or exited prostitution at certain stages during their lives; particularly their socio-economic backgrounds, their health, use of alcohol or involvement in crime and other events that shaped their lives and relationships, including the different types of relationships that existed among ‘prostitutes’, ‘pimps’ and ‘brothel-keepers. Despite the limitations of the available sources which are heavily mediated, this collective biography approach provides some important insights into the lives and experiences of the women involved in prostitution. Importantly, this evidence begins to reveal a level of women’s historical agency that has often been difficult for historians to ascertain.

Dissenting Traditions and Missionary Imaginations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin D. Livingstone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe ◽  
Directing Attention ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter follows the long arc of the ‘missionary novel’, from the exhortation and promotion emanating from a missionary culture embraced by a Protestant Christendom to a dissenting literary culture under siege from imperial servants, secularists, and postcolonial independence movements. It notes that the African missionary novel in particular provides fertile material for the investigation of Dissenting Protestantism as it engaged with the twentieth century. Many ‘humanitarian’ novels disseminated knowledge about mission fields and ‘new’ peoples, and so were part of (and criticized for) the globalizing imagination of early twentieth-century Europe and the spread of the professions. Case studies include Elsie Milligan, Arthur E. Southon, Ambrose Haynes, Marion Percy Williams, Arthur Chirgwin, Harry H. Johnston, and Joyce Cary, among others. The chapter extends the debate on mission and empire by directing attention to issues of postcolonial reception, disclosing the ways in which the so-called ‘dissidence of Dissent’ was both challenged and appropriated by anti-colonial authors in the mid to late twentieth century.

The House We Live In: Religio-Racial Theories and the Study of Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-459
Author(s):  
Judith Weisenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Race And Religion

Abstract This article reviews the origins and goals of the religio-racial framework that grounds the approach to early twentieth-century Black new religious movements in New World A-Coming. It discusses how the articles in the roundtable offer case studies that extend the framework of “religio-racial identity” to model approaches for locating the analysis of connections between race and religion as central to the work of religious studies.

The Missions Theology Of Early Pentecost: Call, Challenge, and Opportunity

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-291
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Daher Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
Missionary Women

AbstractThis article explores three historical components of Pentecostal theology that influenced Pentecostal missionary women by examining missions after the Pentecostal revival of the early twentieth century. This article presents four case studies of such Pentecostals and their responses to Pentecostal experiences and missionary careers for ongoing theological consideration about what it means to 'Go into all the world' as a Pentecostal. According to this study, the Pentecostal experience and reliance on the Holy Spirit was a significant part of Pentecostal women's call to and empowerment for missions, in facing the challenges of missionary service with Pentecostal eschatology, and in following the biblical mandate and narrative to serve in the power of the Spirit with gospel proclamation and accompanying 'signs and wonders'.

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