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  • - Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894
    af Carla Manfredi
    824,95 kr.

    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Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs.

  • - Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture
    af Laura Rotunno
    561,95 - 1.062,95 kr.

    By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.

  • - Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
     
    562,95 kr.

    Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.

  • af Tina O'Toole
    917,95 - 943,95 kr.

    The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siecle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siecle writers and their work.

  • - Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism
    af Eleanor Courtemanche
    571,95 - 879,95 kr.

    The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.

  • - Seeing, Thinking, Writing
    af Jonathan Potter
    567,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939
    af Virginia Richter
    648,95 - 879,95 kr.

    What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.

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    1.201,95 kr.

    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 Bront├½ΓÇÖs writingΓÇöfrom vignettes composed during herteenage years (ΓÇ£The Tea PartyΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£The SecretΓÇ¥) to completed novels (TheProfessor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (ΓÇ£AshworthΓÇ¥ andΓÇ£EmmaΓÇ¥). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences thatshaped Bront├½ΓÇÖs creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, anddrawing), Charlotte Bront├½, Embodiment and the Material World forges newconnections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the authorΓÇÖswork.

  • - Seeing, Thinking, Writing
    af Jonathan Potter
    785,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Caroline Sumpter
    565,95 - 879,95 kr.

    This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

  • af Stephan Karschay
    1.105,95 - 1.300,95 kr.

    This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?

  • af Yvonne Ivory
    604,95 - 879,95 kr.

    Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.

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    989,95 kr.

    Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.

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    1.062,95 kr.

    Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.

  • - Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle
     
    1.062,95 kr.

    Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

  • af J. Reid
    563,95 kr.

    In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work.

  • af D. Denisoff
    897,95 kr.

    Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.

  • - Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile
    af S. Evangelista
    1.099,95 kr.

    This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.

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    962,95 kr.

    A Tale of Two Cities has always been one of Dickens's most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this new collection of essays examines the origins of Dickens vision of the French Revolution, the literary power of the text itself, and its enduring place in British culture through stage and screen adaptations.

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    1.294,95 kr.

    This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Bronte, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

  • - Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
    af Katharina Boehm
    576,95 - 1.062,95 kr.

    This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.

  • af Muireann O'Cinneide
    563,95 - 736,95 kr.

    Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.

  • - Between the East End and East Africa
     
    879,95 kr.

    The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of 'the Jew' - pauper/capitalist, separatist/imposter, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. This new collection considers the wider colonial context in which these ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced.

  • af J. Reid
    854,95 kr.

    In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work.

  • - Passengers of Modernity
    af A. Vadillo
    962,95 kr.

    This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport.

  • - Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
    af C. Colligan
    854,95 kr.

    Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.

  • - Class, Culture and Nation
    af P. Weliver
    854,95 kr.

    This book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works, drawing upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive.

  • - Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland
    af J. Killeen
    1.099,95 kr.

    An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long attraction to Catholicism.

  • - Beauty for the People
    af D. Maltz
    989,95 kr.

    Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.

  • af Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
    813,95 kr.

    This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse.

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