Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Hardcover - Asti Hustvedt

Reducere. But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering...

A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

DescriptionIn the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and eve...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

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

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

Reducere. A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du ...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India - Barry Crosbie

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South Americ...

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

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .Illustrations:...

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jo EllisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 13Cover ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their d...

DescriptionAs the art world shifts and expands, the position of everyone in its orbit--from viewers to critics and curators to artists themselves--...

Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over...

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 ...

Reducere. Roman nominalizat la Man Booker Prize Cel mai bun roman de pana acum al lui Siri Hustvedt. - The Washington Post Nominalizat la prestigiosul Man Bo...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...

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. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), En...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

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

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

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...

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

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

This provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900. McWilliam assesses popular ideology and ...

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 ...

From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-c...

This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public ...

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...