Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture. Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility, Hardback - Monika Pietrzak-Franger

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the firs...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Keridiana W ChezNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 236 x 158 x 20Cover type: Ha...

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What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to approach the field of literature and science in a way ...

Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to th...

DescriptionA study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Litera...

This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific intr...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr James (Plymouth University, UK) GregoryIllustration(s): 23 bw illusNumber of pages: 260Publicatio...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how il...

Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante's reception by conducting the first material and...

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of ...

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Cathrine O FrankNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and t...

Reducere. HGTV has perfected stories about creating and capturing value in the housing market. But according to Robert Goldman, this lifestyle network's belo...

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Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling wat...

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A richly illustrated exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and celebrity in Edo-period Japan.Illustrations: 114 illustrations, 66 in colour

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that ...

Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructin...

The People's Journal regularly published readers' letters, stories, and especially their poetry. Collected here are more than 100 examples, written...

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Publisher: The Museum of BrandsAuthor(s): Robert PoleIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 39 x...

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Over 200 stunning archive photographs, most of which have never been published before, illustrate this mesmerising guide to Victorian London seen t...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

Reducere. DescriptionThe tricks and props of magic and spiritualism: how magicians and psychics fooled the world--and what scientists can learn from them In ...

1862. A goods train is going through the Sapperton Tunnel when it hits a makeshift pen of sheep inexplicably set up near the exit. The animals are ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jessica Ann (George Fox University, USA) HughesNumber of pages: 200Collection: New Directions in Rel...

This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and th...

This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring moti...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Talia SchafferNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 164 x 241 x 30Cover type: Hardb...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

Providing a richer, more complex understanding of a critical chapter in the history of sexually transmitted diseases, In Search of Sexual Health wi...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Brigid LoweNumber of pages: 272Collection: Anthem Nineteenth-Century SeriesPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 239 ...

The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral hi...

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In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Lianne DillsworthNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

A fascinating account of the life of one of the most famous women of the Victorian era.

The story of a Victorian Actress and Lady JournalistPublisher: Allison & BusbyAuthor(s): Helen BattenNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dime...