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Our Lady of Victorian Feminism
The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot
Häftad, 2001
457 kr
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Our Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.In the field of Victorian studies, few scholars have …
Hidden Hands
Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction
Inbunden, 2001
1035 kr
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Tracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines, with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male …
Women, Work, and Representation
Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature
Inbunden, 2003
1035 kr
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In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew; needlework was allied with images of domestic economy and with traditional female roles of wife and mother- with home rather than factory. The professional seamstress, however, labored long hours for very small wages creating gowns for …
Wake of Wellington
Englishness in 1852
Inbunden, 2006
935 kr
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Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England’s response to the …
Indian Angles
English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore
Inbunden, 2011
526 kr
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A new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, …
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology
Inbunden, 2011
1045 kr
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary …
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing
The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855–1875
Inbunden, 2011
1045 kr
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In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra …
Charity and Condescension
Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy
Inbunden, 2012
1045 kr
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Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary …
Room of His Own
A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
Inbunden, 2012
1163 kr
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In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose …
Religious Imaginaries
The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith …
Reading Victorian Deafness
Inbunden, 2013
1045 kr
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Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists …
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary …
Room of His Own
A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose …
Forget Me not
The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823–1835
Inbunden, 2015
1045 kr
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By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship's …
Victorian Novel of Adulthood
Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity
Inbunden, 2015
987 kr
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In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, …
Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843
Av Richard Doyle, Grant F. Scott
Inbunden, 2016
927 kr
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Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard "Dicky" Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three …
Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Abstracting Economics
Av Daniel Bivona, Marlene Tromp
Inbunden, 2016
935 kr
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Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, …
Reading for Health
Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Av Erika Wright
Inbunden, 2016
1045 kr
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In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By …
Drawing on the Victorians
The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts
Av Anna Maria Jones, Rebecca N. Mitchell
Inbunden, 2016
1045 kr
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Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a …
Plot Thickens
Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
Av Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge
Inbunden, 2018
1099 kr
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In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image …
Transported to Botany Bay
Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict
Inbunden, 2019
1035 kr
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Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others …
Collaborative Dickens
Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals
Inbunden, 2019
1035 kr
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From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called "numbers") of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas …
Michael Field
Decadent Moderns
Av Sarah Parker, Ana Parejo Vadillo
Inbunden, 2019
1035 kr
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In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as "Michael Field," Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and …
Moxon Tennyson
A Landmark in Victorian Illustration
Av Simon Cooke
Inbunden, 2021
1035 kr
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A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration into a stand-alone art. Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems dramatically redefined the relationship between images and words in print. Cooke's study, the first book to address the subject in over 120 years, …
Textile Orientalisms
Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2023
1035 kr
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The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire.During the late eighteenth century, Cashmere shawls from the Indian subcontinent began arriving in Britain. At first, …
Charity and Condescension
Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary …
Indian Angles
English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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A new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, …
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing
The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855–1875
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra …
Religious Imaginaries
The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith …
Wake of Wellington
Englishness in 1852
Häftad, 2023
395 kr
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Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England’s response to the …
