Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century – serie
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Great Exhibition, 1851
A Sourcebook
Inbunden, 2017
1337 kr
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The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the …
Great Exhibition, 1851
A Sourcebook
Häftad, 2017
301 kr
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The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the …
Interventions
Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2017
335 kr
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This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American …
Interventions
Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
427 kr
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This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American …
Margaret Harkness
Writing Social Engagement 1880–1921
Av Flore Janssen, Lisa C. Robertson
Inbunden, 2018
1493 kr
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Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of the twentieth century. Its multidisciplinary approach combines recently uncovered biographical information …
Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890–1915
Rereading the Fin De SièCle
Av Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1461 kr
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Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories …
Spain in the Nineteenth Century
New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society
Av Andrew Ginger, Geraldine Lawless
Inbunden, 2018
1493 kr
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The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of European and North-American expansion and development. In these essays, authors explore major, dynamic ways that people in Spain envisaged how they …
Pasts at Play
Childhood Encounters with History in British Culture, 1750–1914
Av Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling
Inbunden, 2020
1367 kr
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This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century …
Legible bodies
Dress, desire and the female self in Victorian literature and culture
Av Tara Puri
Inbunden, 2027
1136 kr
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Legible bodies examines the representation of dress, appearance and the female body in Victorian literature and culture, showing how clothing becomes a medium through which sexuality, desire and social critique are articulated. Bringing together novels by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George …
Marie Duval
Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
Av Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
843 kr
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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century.It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision …
Engine of Modernity
The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Inbunden, 2019
1411 kr
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Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds …
Charlotte Brontë
Legacies and Afterlives
Häftad, 2019
427 kr
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Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has …
Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context
Av Anne Woolley
Inbunden, 2021
1411 kr
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A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a …
Madrid on the Move
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2021
1263 kr
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Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. Rather than shifting the …
Case of the Initial Letter
Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism. It discusses Dickens’s satire - on ‘Shares’ in Our Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey’s position …
Case of the Initial Letter
Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet
Inbunden, 2020
1367 kr
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The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism. It discusses Dickens’s satire - on ‘Shares’ in Our Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey’s position …
Case of the Initial Letter
Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism. It discusses Dickens’s satire - on ‘Shares’ in Our Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey’s position …
Instead of Modernity
The Western Canon and the Incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850–75)
E-bok, 2020
410 kr
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When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized theories of …
Instead of Modernity
The Western Canon and the Incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850–75)
Inbunden, 2020
1461 kr
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When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized theories of …
Instead of Modernity
The Western Canon and the Incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850–75)
E-bok, 2020
410 kr
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When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpinned their most influential thoughts, its legacy insinuated into institutionalized theories of …
Spectral Dickens
The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization
Inbunden, 2021
1411 kr
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Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens’ illustrated novels using three …
Spectral Dickens
The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization
E-bok, 2021
410 kr
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Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens’ illustrated novels using three …
Spectral Dickens
The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization
E-bok, 2021
402 kr
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Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens’ illustrated novels using three …
Victorian Aquarium
Literary Discussions on Nature, Culture, and Science
Inbunden, 2021
1411 kr
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The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book offers an example of how the study of a particular object can be used to address a broad spectrum of issues. The Victorian aquarium became in fact a …
Dante Beyond Influence
Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1411 kr
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Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across intellectual realms, agents and forms of readerly and writerly engagement. Unearthing previously unseen …
Worlding the South
Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies
Av Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis
Inbunden, 2021
591 kr
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This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies, and southern theory to decentre …
Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
Av Rob Breton
Inbunden, 2021
1411 kr
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Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It …
Engine of Modernity
The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Häftad, 2021
414 kr
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Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds …
British Literature and Archaeology, 1880–1930
Inbunden, 2022
851 kr
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British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse—its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods—uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the …
Invasions
Fears and Fantasies of Imagined Wars in Britain, 1871-1918
Inbunden, 2025
1411 kr
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Invasions is an ambitious, new and authoritative study of one of the defining cultural products of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. By the outbreak of war in 1914 invasion-scare fiction had profoundly changed British society, becoming not just a vibrant part of popular culture, but a reference …
