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 :  Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-17
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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Télécharger le livre :  The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
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This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
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This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism
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This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle
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This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century
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This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
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This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Transport in British Fiction
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Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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