Télécharger le livre :  Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Mobility in the Victorian Novel
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Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-09-13
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical
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Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy
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This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Writers and the Stage
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This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England
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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal ofWilliam Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900
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This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Decadent Poetics
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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,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Irish New Woman
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The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism
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This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian Time
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  British Colonial Realism in Africa
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What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle
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As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930
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It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature After Darwin
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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