Télécharger le livre :  Writing the South African San
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This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Forms of Michael Field
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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. The Forms ofMichael Field argues that their modes of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France
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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. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-02-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The 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....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Charlotte Brontë, 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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of Victorian Caricature
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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. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s
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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. Analyzing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education
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This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Impressions
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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. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lyric in Victorian Memory
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This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood
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This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Dickens and the Virtual City
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This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology
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This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-13
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India
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This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Soul-Talk
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This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain
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This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past
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This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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