SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century – serie
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Time Is of the Essence
Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers—Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.In Time Is of the Essence, Patricia Murphy argues that the Victorian debate on the Woman Question was …
Romantic Science
The Literary Forms of Natural History
Häftad, 2003
532 kr
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Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science-the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature-originated in the Romantic …
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Häftad, 2004
450 kr
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Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explosion …
Nervous Conditions
Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain
Inbunden, 2006
1048 kr
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Examines nineteenth-century scientists' obsession with nerves and the nervous system.Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating …
Decadent Culture in the United States
Art and Literature against the American Grain, 1890-1926
Av David Weir
Inbunden, 2007
1324 kr
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The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had …
Decadent Culture in the United States
Art and Literature against the American Grain, 1890-1926
Av David Weir
Häftad, 2009
453 kr
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The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had …
Cholera and Nation
Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England
Inbunden, 2008
1479 kr
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How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political …
Cholera and Nation
Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England
Häftad, 2009
532 kr
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How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political …
Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.From the 1790s to the 1840s, the fear that Britain had become too effeminate to protect itself against the anarchic forces unleashed by the French Revolution produced in many British writers of the …
Anxious Anatomy
The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse
Häftad, 2009
440 kr
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Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.In Anxious Anatomy, Stefani Engelstein reconstructs the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century human body to offer startling new readings of major works by Goethe, Blake, Heinrich von Kleist, …
Literary Remains
Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England
Häftad, 2010
532 kr
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Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.Literary Remains explores the unexpectedly central role of death and burial in Victorian England. As Alan Ball, creator of HBO's Six Feet Under, quipped, "Once you put a dead body in the room, you can talk …
Victorian Fetishism
Intellectuals and Primitives
Häftad, 2010
532 kr
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Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals …
Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Häftad, 2010
532 kr
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Argues that Byron's popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture argues that Byron's popularity, particularly among women, marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural industry. For nearly two hundred years, Romantic criticism …
Antipodal England
Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination
Häftad, 2011
451 kr
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Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.A common subplot in the Victorian novel involves fictional emigrants who disappear into or arrive from the colonies in ways that facilitate plot development but do …
Romantic Mediations
Media Theory and British Romanticism
Häftad, 2017
532 kr
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Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.Finalist in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Social Sciences category Romantic Mediations …
Romantic Mediations
Media Theory and British Romanticism
Inbunden, 2016
1834 kr
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Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.Finalist in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Social Sciences category Romantic Mediations …
Lacan and Romanticism
Av Daniela Garofalo, David Sigler
Häftad, 2020
459 kr
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Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William …
Legacies of the Sublime
Literature, Aesthetics, and Freedom from Kant to Joyce
Häftad, 2020
686 kr
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Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle and persuasive …
Romantic Vacancy
The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation
Av Kate Singer
Häftad, 2020
711 kr
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Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility's claims that sensation could …
Victorian Negatives
Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2020
532 kr
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Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the …
Victorian Negatives
Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2019
1436 kr
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Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the …
Ethic of Innocence
Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know
Häftad, 2020
521 kr
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Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem "not to know" things. These naïve fools, …
Ethic of Innocence
Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know
Inbunden, 2019
1479 kr
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Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem "not to know" things. These naïve fools, …
Aesthetics of Senescence
Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Inbunden, 2020
1479 kr
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Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how …
Aesthetics of Senescence
Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Häftad, 2021
687 kr
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Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how …
Victorian Structures
Architecture, Society, and Narrative
Inbunden, 2020
1834 kr
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Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy …
Victorian Structures
Architecture, Society, and Narrative
Häftad, 2021
695 kr
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Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy …
Kept from All Contagion
Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Kari Nixon
Häftad, 2021
711 kr
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Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. Connecting groups …
Kept from All Contagion
Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Kari Nixon
Inbunden, 2020
1479 kr
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Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. Connecting groups …
Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene
Av Shawna Ross
Häftad, 2021
484 kr
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Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.Honorable Mention, 2020 Sonya Rudikoff Award presented by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association In this book, Shawna Ross argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the …
