Télécharger le livre :  The Omnibus
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The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry of the New Woman
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The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities.  Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many of the same...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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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. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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 :  Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-12-03
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 :  Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury
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This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-05
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 Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910
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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. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Environments
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This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-03-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought
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This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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