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John Milton In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Visual Culture

de Laura Fox (University Of Lincoln) Gill

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 Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary influence, reception, and the visual imagination, and bringing Milton's canonical works from the early modern period into conversation with a range of key figures in nineteenth-century culture.
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Reimagining Dinosaurs In Late Victorian And Edwardian Literature - How The Â€˜Terrible Lizard' Became A Transatlantic Cultural Icon

de Richard (University Of Birmingham) Fallon

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 Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that American museums made dinosaurs famous, this book argues that British and American popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a transatlantic cultural icon between 1880 and 1920.
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Vagrancy In The Victorian Age - Representing The Wandering Poor In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture

de Alistair (Birkbeck, University Of London) Robinson

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 Uncovering the rich taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy, this interdisciplinary study explores how the Victorians conceptualised poverty, mobility and homelessness. It offers an important resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and history, situating major canonical texts within illuminating cultural contexts.
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Walter Pater And The Beginnings Of English Studies

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 This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism and comprehensively contextualises his work. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Scale, Crisis, And The Modern Novel - Extreme Measures

de Aaron (King'S College London) Rosenberg

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 Vividly re-contextualising crises including deep time, globalization, evolution, and extinction, this study shows Wells, Hardy, Conrad and Woolf overturning novelistic realism to navigate changed realities. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Convalescence In The Nineteenth-Century Novel - The Afterlife Of Victorian Illness

de Hosanna (University Of Wyoming) Krienke

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 This first scholarly overview of nineteenth-century convalescent care provides vital information for scholars of Victorian novels, history of medicine, and gender & disability studies. While scholars often discuss diseases individually, post-acute convalescent care benefited a wide range of ailments - such as consumption, overwork, and debility.
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Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination

de Leila (Occidental College, Los Angeles) Neti

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 Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture.
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Mimicry And Display In Victorian Literary Culture - Nature, Science And The Nineteenth-Century Imagination

de Will (University Of Sussex) Abberley

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 Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences and the arts, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture offers fresh angles on canonical authors and texts. It will appeal to scholars and students of literature and history, and general readers interested in cultural history and history of science.
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Fashionable Fictions And The Currency Of The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

de Lauren (University Of Ottawa) Gillingham

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 Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.
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The Art Of The Reprint - Nineteenth-Century Novels In Twentieth-Century Editions

de Rosalind Parry

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 The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources, this is a richly-illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.
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Birdsong, Speech And Poetry - The Art Of Composition In The Long Nineteenth Century

de Francesca Mackenney

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 This interdisciplinary work explores how scientists, musicians and poets have listened to, and tried to understand, the everyday mystery of birdsong. Paying particular attention to Romantic and Victorian writing on other species, it offers valuable insights for scholars working in the fields of literary criticism and the environmental humanities.
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Children'S Literature And The Rise Of Â€˜Mind Cure' - Positive Thinking And Pseudo-Science At The Fin De Siecle

de Anne (Saint Louis University, Missouri) Stiles

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 Positive thinking is good for you. Analysing nineteenth-century literature through the pervading lens of New Thought, which foreshadowed concepts of twentieth-century popular psychology, this volume uncovers unnoticed aspects of canonical works and classic children's literature to reveal a new area of academic inquiry for scholars and students.
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Sexual Restraint And Aesthetic Experience In Victorian Literary Decadence

de Sarah (University Of Oxford) Green

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 Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores a surprisingly positive view of restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. It reads Decadent texts alongside medical manuals, periodicals, and adverts, finding representations of restraint as healthy, productive, and aesthetically enriching.
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Conversing In Verse - Conversation In Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

de Elizabeth Helsinger

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 In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores varied historical and philosophical contexts to address the question of when and why poets adopt conversational forms, and how doing so might ultimately expand readers' ethical and political horizons.
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Victorian Women And Wayward Reading - Crises Of Identification

de Marisa Palacios Knox

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 This book explores how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity. Engaging with nineteenth-century English literature and culture, the book engages with theories and histories of reading that appeal to literary scholars and educators.
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The Victorian Cult Of Shakespeare - Bardology In The Nineteenth Century

de Charles (University Of Washington) Laporte

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 This book will interest anyone who is curious about how Shakespeare became the presiding deity of English literature. It describes the Victorians' quasi-Biblical culture surrounding Shakespeare's work and discusses why Victorian devotion had an enduring impact upon English studies in the Western world.
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Victorian Women Writers And The Other Germany - Cross-Cultural Freedoms And Female Opportunity

de Linda Hughes

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Poetry, Media, And The Material Body - Autopoetics In Nineteenth-Century Britain

de Ashley (Albion College, Michigan) Miller

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 This book investigates the often surprising intersections and overlaps between three infrequently related fields: studies of poetry, studies of media, and studies of the body.Â At these intersections a neglected nineteenth-century theory of poetry becomes visible, one that imagines the body as a reproductive medium for poetry.
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Birdsong, Speech And Poetry - The Art Of Composition In The Long Nineteenth Century

de Francesca (University Of Leeds) Mackenney

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This interdisciplinary work explores how scientists, musicians and poets have listened to, and tried to understand, the everyday mystery of birdsong. Paying particular attention to Romantic and Victorian writing on other species, it offers valuable insights for scholars working in the fields of literary criticism and the environmental humanities.
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Music And The Queer Body In English Literature At The Fin De Siecle

de Fraser Riddell

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Collaborative Writing In The Long Nineteenth Century - Sympathetic Partnerships And Artistic Creation

de Heather Bozant Witcher

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 Celebrating plurality in collaboration and underscoring the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing, Heather Witcher draws on a range of examples to show the myriad ways, both social and material, in which nineteenth-century authors interacted and co-created. Ultimately, this study overhauls how we view authorship itself.
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Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages - Personal And Public Art And Literature Of The Franklin Search Expeditions

de Eavan O'Dochartaigh

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Conversing In Verse - Conversation In Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

de Elizabeth (University Of Chicago) Helsinger

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores varied historical and philosophical contexts to address the question of when and why poets adopt conversational forms, and how doing so might ultimately expand readers' ethical and political horizons.
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The Brontes And The Idea Of The Human - Science, Ethics, And The Victorian Imagination

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 Investigating links between literature, science, psychology, religion, law, and ethics, this study re-evaluates nineteenth-century understandings of what it means to be human. Leading scholars argue for the centrality of the idea of the human within the works of the BrontÃ« sisters, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.
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