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Women'S Writing For Punch Magazine, 1868â€“1918 - Negotiating Gender And Humour

by Katy Birch

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 Women's writing for Punch magazine complicates the image of Punch as a misogynistic, male-authored publication by recovering the history of female Punch writers. Rather than being passive victims of misogyny, these authors were women with agency who made strategic use of humour to fit into Punch and help to shape its representation of women. -- .
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Re-Examining Nineteenth-Century Easts - Gendered Narratives Of Encounter

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 This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century â€˜Eastsâ€™. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural, geographical and ideological contexts surrounding the nineteenth-century Easts, from the Balkans to the Far East. -- .
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Readers And Mistresses - Kept Women In Victorian Literature

by Katie R. Peel

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 Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic. -- .
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Re-Examining Nineteenth-Century Easts - Gendered Narratives Of Encounter

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 This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century â€˜Eastsâ€™. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural, geographical and ideological contexts surrounding the nineteenth-century Easts, from the Balkans to the Far East. -- .
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Speculative Endeavors - Cultures Of Knowledge And Capital In The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital. -- .
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Beyond The Antislavery Haven - Slavery In Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789-1889

by Ellie Bird

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 This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place. -- .
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Invasions - Fears And Fantasies Of Imagined Wars In Britain, 1871-1918

by Christian K. Melby

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 The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre. -- .
The Emotions In Liberal Writing, C.1790â€“C.1920

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 This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century, showing how liberals were deeply concerned with the nature, function, and effects of the emotions and how links between reason, disinterestedness and the positive role of the emotions became a hallmark of liberal writing. -- .
Victorian Legs - Degeneracy, Disability, Decorum, Desire

by Clayton Tarr

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 This book studies the science and sexuality of legs during the Victorian period. -- .
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The Nineteenth-Century Present - Literature, Print Culture And Historicity

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 This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century. -- .
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Speculative Endeavors - Cultures Of Knowledge And Capital In The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital. -- .
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Beyond The Antislavery Haven - Slavery In Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789â€“1889

by Ellie Bird

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 This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place. -- .
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Invasions - Fears And Fantasies Of Imagined Wars In Britain, 1871-1918

by Christian K. Melby

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 The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre. -- .
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Readers And Mistresses - Kept Women In Victorian Literature

by Katie R. Peel

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 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025 Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
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Instead Of Modernity - The Western Canon And The Incorporation Of The Hispanic (C. 1850â€“75)

by Andrew Ginger

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 At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with â€œmodernityâ€ that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies. -- .
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Marie Duval - Maverick Victorian Cartoonist

by Julian Waite, Roger Sabin e Simon Grennan

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 Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847â€"1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period. -- .
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The Poems Of Elizabeth Siddal In Context

by Anne Woolley

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 Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice. -- .
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Readers And Mistresses - Kept Women In Victorian Literature

by Katie R. Peel

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 Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic. -- .
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Spectral Dickens - The Uncanny Forms Of Novelistic Characterization

by Alexander, Iii Bove

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 Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickensâ€™ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Boveâ€™s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms. -- .
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Pasts At Play - Childhood Encounters With History In British Culture, 1750â€“1914

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 Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully with the past to generate moral lessons. -- .
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Creating Character - Theories Of Nature And Nurture In Victorian Sensation Fiction

by Helena Ifill

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 Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .
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British Literature And Archaeology, 1880-1930

by Angela Blumberg e Angie Blumberg

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 Reveals how British writers and artists engaged with archaeological discourse as a crucial mode of conceptualising modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining multiple literary genres and visual media from 1880-1930, the book traces archaeological discourse in discussions about sexuality, aesthetics, authenticity, and historiography. -- .
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Engine Of Modernity - The Omnibus And Urban Culture In Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Masha Belenky

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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 urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .
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Interventions - Rethinking The Nineteenth Century

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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, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. -- .
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