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Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies

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 The volume draws together literary scholars working across the fields of poetry and poetics, decadence, modernism, ecocriticism and queer theory, while illustrating the particular stylistic and thematic complexities of Mewâ€™s writing.
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Precocious Child In Victorian Literature And Culture - Development And Selfhood From Darwin To Freud

by Roisin Laing

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 This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture â€" canonical literature, childrenâ€™s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children â€" to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress.
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Modern Feminine In The Medusa Satire Of Fanny Fern

by James E. Caron

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 The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "the damn mob of scribbling women." The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous’s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton’s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton’s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton’s concept of fumerism, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.
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Omnibus - A Cultural History Of Urban Transportation

by Elizabeth Amann

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 The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit.
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Poetry Of The New Woman - Public Concerns, Private Matters

by Patricia Murphy

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 The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities. While novels about the iconoclastic New Woman have garnered much interest in recent decades, poetry from the cultural and literary figure has received considerably less attention.
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Panoramas And Compilations In Nineteenth-Century Britain - Seeing The Big Picture

by Helen Kingstone

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 This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history.
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Prosthetic Body Parts In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture

by Ryan Sweet

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 This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.
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Writing The South African San - Colonial Ethnographic Discourses

by Lara Atkin

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 Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference.
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Victorian Surfaces In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture - Skin, Silk, And Show

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 This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces.
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Forms Of Michael Field

by Leeanne M. Richardson

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 Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression.
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Writing The South African San - Colonial Ethnographic Discourses

by Lara Atkin

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 Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference.
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Victorian Surfaces In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture - Skin, Silk, And Show

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 This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces.
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Living Well With Pessimism In Nineteenth-Century France

by Joseph Acquisto

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 This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.
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Charlotte Bronte, Embodiment And The Material World

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 Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volumeaddresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during herteenage years ("The Tea Party" and "The Secret") to completed novels (TheProfessor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works ("Ashworth" and"Emma"). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences thatshaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, anddrawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges newconnections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’swork.
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Figure Of Christ In The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety ofways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, theplace of the cross, and the contours of lived experience, was articulated throughthe long nineteenth century.
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Rise Of Victorian Caricature

by Ian Haywood

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 This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s.
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Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative In Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s - Popular Culture—Serial Culture

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 This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling meant serial storytelling and when new printing techniques and an expanding infrastructure brought serial entertainment to the masses.
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Oscar Wilde'S Aesthetic Education - The Oxford Classical Curriculum

by Leanne Grech

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 This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wildeâ€™s aestheticism. It also explores Wildeâ€™s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wildeâ€™s life and literature.
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Intersections Of Gender, Class, And Race In The Long Nineteenth Century And Beyond

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 This book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled with the family metaphor.
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Nineteenth-Century Fiction And The Production Of Bloomsbury - Novel Grounds

by Matthew Ingleby

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 As Bloomsbury became increasingly identified with the cultural capitalof writers rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated.
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Discourses Of Vision In Nineteenth-Century Britain - Seeing, Thinking, Writing

by Jonathan Potter

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 This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience.
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Robert Louis Stevenson'S Pacific Impressions - Photography And Travel Writing, 1888-1894

by Carla Manfredi

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 This book tackles photography's role during Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs.
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Labour Of Literature In Britain And France, 1830-1910 - Authorial Work Ethics

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 This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour.
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Victorian Environments - Acclimatizing To Change In British Domestic And Colonial Culture

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 Victorian Environments draws together leading and emerging international scholars for an examination of how various kinds of environments were constructed, redefined, and transformed, in British and colonial texts and cultures, with particular attention to the relationship between Australia and Britain.
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