Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Paperback - Laura Otis

DescriptionAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not ...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

The second in a two-part volume, offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the nineteenth centur...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

A translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century Brit...

DescriptionNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchang...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Reducere. This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century...

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

DescriptionA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Clare Walker GoreIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Collection: E...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 344Collection: Global Shakespeare InvertedPublication date: 2022Dim...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Laura Lee GuhrkeNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 173 x 204 x 41Cover type: P...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

DescriptionTeaching nineteenth-century literature can be an incredibly rewarding experience, resulting in lessons which are exciting and engaging a...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian cul...

Reducere. The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. ...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

Reducere. English is often a primary literary language for Filipino writers--not only for those in the Philippines but for those resident in the US; both gro...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Stana NenadicIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date...

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...