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Worlding the south
Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies
Edited by Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis
This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5288-6
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Hardcover
£30.00
Buy NowThe 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: 978-1-5261-5638-9
FORMAT:
£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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£20.00
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: 978-1-5261-4384-6
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£80.00
Buy NowThe Victorian aquarium
Literary discussions on nature, culture, and science
By Silvia Granata
The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book offers an example of how the study of a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5196-4
FORMAT:
£80.00
Buy NowMadrid on the move
Feeling modern and visually aware in the nineteenth century
By Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4436-2
FORMAT:
£80.00
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: 978-1-5261-4793-6
FORMAT:
£80.00
Buy NowMarie 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: 978-1-5261-3354-0
FORMAT:
£80.00
Buy NowInstead of modernity
The Western canon and the incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850–75)
By Andrew Ginger
When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4784-4
FORMAT:
£85.00
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: 978-1-5261-2889-8
FORMAT:
£80.00
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