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Marie 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
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£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
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£80.00
Pre-OrderSpectral Dickens
The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization
By Alexander A. 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
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£80.00
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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
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£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
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£80.00
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
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: 978-1-5261-3859-0
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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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£85.00
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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£20.00
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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£20.00
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