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Dante beyond influence
Rethinking reception in Victorian literary culture
By Federica Coluzzi
Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural history, charting its development across ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7891-6
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Pre-OrderThe poems of Elizabeth Siddal in context
By Anne Woolley
A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7892-3
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Pre-OrderMarie Duval
Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
By Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin and Julian Waite
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7893-0
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Pre-OrderThe penny politics of Victorian popular fiction
By Rob Breton
Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7453-6
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Buy NowSpectral Dickens
The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization
By Alexander Bove
Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7454-3
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Buy NowPasts at play
Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750-1914
Edited by Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara Gribling
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7182-5
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Buy NowCounterfactual Romanticism
Edited by Damian Walford Davies
Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7183-2
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Buy NowCreating character
Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
By Helena Ifill
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7181-8
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Buy NowBritish literature and archaeology, 1880-1930
By Angie Blumberg
British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse-its artefacts, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6147-5
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£80.00
Buy NowEngine of modernity
The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris
By Masha Belenky
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6021-8
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£21.00
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