Medical Muses. Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Paperback - Asti Hustvedt

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK...

Reducere. In 1832, the captain of the brigantine Catalina ordered Scotsman James Black, dying of typhus, abandoned at Monterey, California. Nursed by J. B. R...

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...

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