The Devil and the Victorians. Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture, Paperback - Sarah Bartels

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

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

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

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

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...

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This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Sarah C...

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Reducere. From the Bahamas to Heathrow airport, to the rain soaked streets of London the dead have ceased dying.This is inconvenient for a number of reasons ...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

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

A Buzzfeed Best Book of June! Sparks fly when a runaway heiress bargains with a devilish rogue to escape a marriage of convenience. No one would gu...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him a...

Reducere. "Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book ReviewThe extraordinary new thriller from Stuart Turton, author of the bestselling murder mystery The...

Reducere. Compulsively readable.--New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Daily Mail, Financial Times, The Independent, Publishe...

Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White's sleepy, seaside town... until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet's...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND i PAPER'Wildly inventive, Turton's tale ...

Reducere. Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryFictionWhen pop diva Sheila Lews dies under puzzling circumstances, Clarisse Dufresne is approached by ...

Reducere. What happens when the stories we've been told fail us? In ten provocative and unsettling tales, Pedro Ponce grapples with the human instinct to cre...

Reducere. An intensive study of demonology, the devil and demons. Includes the history of demonology and demons, the spiritual warfare with demons, demon obs...

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...

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

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared... From the Richard & Judy Book Club-selected auth...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

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...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him a...

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

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on...

Reducere. ... Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversi...

DescriptionGlossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to f...

Reducere. Beat the Devil Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys no...

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

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

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. ...