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Determined Spirits
Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930
Inbunden, 2012
1531 kr
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Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought.Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She …
Florence Marryat's Fiction
Gender, Theatricality and Spiritualism
Inbunden, 2021
1097 kr
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This book offers an extensive investigation of the life and multi-faceted career of Florence Marryat (1837-1899) the much feted Victorian novelist, editor, actress and public orator.
In Lady Audley's Shadow
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon''s complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres: the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel. Using Braddon''s bestselling sensation fiction Lady Audley''s Secret as a paradigmatic novel and as a ''haunting'' textual presence …
William Morris and the Idea of Community
Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880–1914
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers - from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells - are the focus of this study. Anna Vaninskaya draws upon a wide array of primary sources: from working-class fiction and articles in fringe socialist newspapers to historical treatises, …
Walter Pater
Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy
Av Kate Hext
Inbunden, 2013
2270 kr
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Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern …
Walter Pater
Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy
Av Kate Hext
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern …
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature
Inbunden, 2012
1531 kr
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This study maps the effects of a cartographic blankness in literature and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the nascent discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. It demonstrates that tales of intrepid exploration and of dramatic cultural …
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature
E-bok, 2012
375 kr
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Explores the fin de siècle mission to open up the ‘Dark Continent’ This study maps the effects of a cartographic blankness in literature and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the nascent discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. It demonstrates …
Determined Spirits
Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930
E-bok, 2012
394 kr
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Examines the Spiritualist movement''s role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought.Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She …
Moving Images
Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices
Av Helen Groth
Inbunden, 2013
1531 kr
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Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual mediaThis book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which …
Moving Images
Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices
Av Helen Groth
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual mediaThis book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which …
Moving Images
Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices
Av Helen Groth
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual mediaThis book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which …
Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions
Inbunden, 2013
1531 kr
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Explores Thomas Hardy’s engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fictionThomas Hardy’s fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which …
Women and the Railway, 1850-1915
Inbunden, 2015
1531 kr
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This book examines cultural representations of women's experience of the railway in the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book explores the extraordinary and unprecedented …
Women and the Railway, 1850-1915
E-bok, 2015
1874 kr
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Examines cultural representations of women’s experience of the railway in the nineteenth century Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book explores the extraordinary and unprecedented …
Jane Morris
The Burden of History
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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A scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to grace a range of Pre-Raphaelite merchandise Described by Henry James as a ''dark, silent, medieval woman'', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a rather one-dimensional figure in subsequent accounts. …
Walter Pater
Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy
Av Kate Hext
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern …
Decadent Image
The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson
E-bok, 2015
375 kr
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Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson. This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as …
Decadent Image
The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson
E-bok, 2015
375 kr
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Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson. This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as …
Exploring Victorian Travel Literature
Disease, Race and Climate
Inbunden, 2014
1531 kr
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This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Well-known …
Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
Encrypted Sexualities
Inbunden, 2020
1414 kr
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Explores Victorian writers’ erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough readings of sculpture in Victorian texts and contextsExamines a wide range of works by well-known and lesser-known writers of the period (e.g. Thomas …
Spirit Becomes Matter
The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche
Av Henry Staten
E-bok, 2014
375 kr
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Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontës and George Eliot This book explains how, under the influence of the new ''mental materialism'' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontës and George Eliot in their greatest …
1895
Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain
Häftad, 2014
324 kr
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Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the events of this remarkable yearOscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was …
Olive Schreiner and the Politics of Print Culture, 1883-1920
Av Clare Gill
Inbunden, 2020
1062 kr
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Roomscape
Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf
Häftad, 2014
358 kr
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Examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sourcesRoomscape explores a specific site—the Reading Room of the British Museum—as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early …
Rudyard Kipling's Fiction
Mapping Psychic Spaces
Av Lizzy Welby
Inbunden, 2015
1531 kr
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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian CultureSeries edited by Julian WolfreysDrawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century’s literature and cultureRudyard Kipling's Fiction: Mapping Psychic SpacesLizzy WelbyReads Kipling’s fiction …
Anthony Trollope's Late Style
Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form
Inbunden, 2016
1531 kr
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This study focuses on Anthony Trollope’s stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: ‘I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but …
Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
Encrypted Sexualities
Häftad, 2022
331 kr
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This book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture's ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums Pulham observes that, while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations, …
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class statusAdopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociological theory, social and political history, and literary history and critiqueMakes a timely …
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform
Häftad, 2024
561 kr
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of …
