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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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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