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Engine 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: 978-1-5261-3859-0
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£80.00
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: 978-1-7849-9141-8
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£80.00
Buy NowCharlotte Brontë
Legacies and afterlives
Edited by Amber Regis and Deborah Wynne
Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3948-1
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Buy NowInterventions
Rethinking the nineteenth century
Edited by Andrew Smith and Anna Barton
This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0870-8
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Buy NowMargaret Harkness
Writing social engagement 1880–1921
Edited by Flore Janssen and Lisa C. Robertson
Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2350-3
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Spain in the nineteenth century
New essays on experiences of culture and society
Edited by Andrew Ginger and Geraldine Lawless
The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of European and North-American expansion and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2474-6
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£80.00
Buy NowRichard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
Rereading the fin de siècle
Edited by Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells and Minna Vuohelainen
Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker's Dracula. A prolific ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2434-0
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Creating 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: 978-1-7849-9513-3
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£80.00
Buy NowThe Great Exhibition, 1851
A sourcebook
Edited by Jonathon Shears
The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9913-7
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£17.99
Buy NowThe Case of the Initial Letter
Charles Dickens and the politics of the dual alphabet
By Gavin Edwards
The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4629-8
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£80.00
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