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Joseph Severn
Letters and Memoirs
Inbunden, 2005
3339 kr
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This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters and memoirs of Joseph Severn, English painter and deathbed companion of John Keats. It includes letters from a remarkable collection of never-before-published correspondence held by descendants of the Severn family. Scott's unprecedented …
Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects
Av Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister
Inbunden, 2018
2871 kr
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The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically …
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals
Conviction and Career
Inbunden, 2022
2444 kr
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This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the …
Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing
Beyond Serialization
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in …
Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry
Political Dialects
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent …
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships
Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond
Häftad, 2023
792 kr
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This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings …
Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885
Häftad, 2021
747 kr
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Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Edward Lloyd and His World
Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain
Av Sarah Louise Lill, Rohan McWilliam
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern …
Antipodean George Eliot
Av Margaret Harris, Matthew Sussman
Inbunden, 2022
2444 kr
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In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six …
Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century
Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
Inbunden, 2022
2863 kr
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Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary …
Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century
Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
Häftad, 2024
738 kr
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Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary …
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals
Conviction and Career
Häftad, 2024
738 kr
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This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the …
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined
Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870
Av Jennifer Conary, Mary L. Shannon
Häftad, 2023
722 kr
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This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds’s contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a …
Antipodean George Eliot
Av Margaret Harris, Matthew Sussman
Häftad, 2022
705 kr
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In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six …
Model Women of the Press
Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880
Häftad, 2025
721 kr
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This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke …
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870–1910
The First Speech
Inbunden, 2025
2863 kr
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This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies and the cultural history of feminism, it sheds new light …
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870–1910
The First Speech
Häftad, 2026
805 kr
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This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies and the cultural history of feminism, it sheds new light …
The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inbunden, 2018
2863 kr
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Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the …
Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor …
Victorian Animal Dreams
Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Av Martin A. Danahay, Deborah Denenholz Morse
Häftad, 2017
1063 kr
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The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' …
Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation
Av Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'. The …
Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now
Reading with Hindsight
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in …
Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
The Body of Nature
Häftad, 2016
1070 kr
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Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson …
Dickens and Empire
Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens
Av Grace Moore
Häftad, 2016
921 kr
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Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial …
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
Av Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
921 kr
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the …
Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing
Häftad, 2016
921 kr
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Exploring the significance of animals in Romantic-period writing, this new study shows how in this period they were seen as both newly different from humankind (subjects in their own right, rather than simply humanity's tools or adjuncts) and also as newly similar, with the ability to feel and …
Byron and the Discourses of History
Av Carla Pomarè
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on drama (the Venetian plays, The Deformed Transformed), verse narrative (The Siege of Corinth, Mazeppa) and dramatic monologue (The Prophecy …
Dickens, Family, Authorship
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity
Av Lynn Cain
Häftad, 2017
987 kr
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Drawing on a wide range of Dickens's writings, including all of his novels and a selection of his letters, journalism, and shorter fiction, Dickens, Family, Authorship provides a provocative account of the evolution of an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged …
Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
The Brutal Tongue
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue …
