Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination, Hardback - ***

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

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteSince its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understand...

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

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-ce...

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

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

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Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion, " but often us...

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

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...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examin...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

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

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this collection of stories has been selected by English teachers for its appeal to Key Stage 4 ...

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

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Caroline ChapmanIllustration(s): 60 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

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

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

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

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An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

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

his study argues that permissive legislation facilitated ocal initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were ften more effective than natio...

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from the well-known, such as Napoleon and Queen Victoria, to the lesser known,...