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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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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Télécharger le livre :  The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
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This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-07-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley
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Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-08-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle
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In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions of British Decadence
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Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-04-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900
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This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-11-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Faiths of Oscar Wilde
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An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long attraction to Catholicism. Wilde's Protestant heritage is also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-10-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism
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This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport. It also radically re-addresses the questions of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-09-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874
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This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse. By examining a range of canonical and non-canonical authors-including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-08-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Encounters in the Victorian Press
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Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press - its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors.Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2004-11-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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