Télécharger le livre :  The Irish New Woman
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...

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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism
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...

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

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Parution : 2013-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  British Colonial Realism in Africa
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...

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Parution : 2012-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle
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...

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

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Parution : 2011-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930
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,...

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Parution : 2011-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature After Darwin
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...

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Parution : 2010-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
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...

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Parution : 2010-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures
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,...

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

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Parution : 2009-05-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930
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...

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Parution : 2009-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  English Literary Sexology
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...

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Parution : 2009-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the Great Exhibition
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
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Télécharger le livre :  'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture
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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley
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...

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Parution : 2006-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle
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...

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Parution : 2006-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions of British Decadence
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...

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Parution : 2006-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900
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
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