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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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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Télécharger le livre :  Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
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This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-06-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures
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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,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  English Literary Sexology
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It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-04-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the Great Exhibition
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This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-01-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-01-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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