Somatic Fictions. Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture, Hardback - Athena Vrettos

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

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

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

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

The first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, Fictions of Whiteness examines the ...

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...

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

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

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

This book demonstrates that an ethics of individual conscience and virtue is incommensurate with Calvin's doctrine and shows that for Calvin, Chris...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Carey MickalitesNumber of pages: 248Collection: New Horizons in Contemporary WritingPublication date...

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This anthology brings together chapters from astronomers, historians and writers who are inspired by the sky, and who originally gathered at the co...

In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila's cinema landscape by f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Gregory (University of Liverpool, UK) LynallIllustration(s): 17 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Colle...

Publisher: DamianiIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 224 x 313 x 20Cover type: Ha...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis...

Reducere. It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing. Western countries invest billions in healthcare, y...

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

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Isidore LobnibeIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 26 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publicat...

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

Based on original documents never before discussed, this account of the disastrous marriage of Effie Gray and John Ruskin overturns the myths that ...

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Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious an...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 258Collection: BiUP GeneralPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 222 x 29Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Marc BekoffIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 ...

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. P...

Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLCAuthor(s): Sara HoseyNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedes...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted some of the 19th century's most spectacular portraits, particularly of three very different women who were his muses...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Malgorzata (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois...

Anthony Dawton has worked as a photographer in some of the most deprived areas of the world, raising awareness of poverty and suffering. Shocked, o...