A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era. Victorian Sensation sheds light on the Victorians fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage... Lees meer.

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said s Orientalism... Lees meer.

An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period. The essays in this collection explore the influence of nineteenth-century culture on the rise of these sciences investigating the emergence of ma... Lees meer.

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton s selected verse recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters reviews and other contextual material as well as a scholarly introdu... Lees meer.

This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic imperial and foreign press. This annotated bibliography of nineteen... Lees meer.

Although there have been over 700 illustrators of Poe s work over the past two centuries this book chooses to examine only the best of them. Beginning with the French in the nineteenth century and tracing the great illustrators of Poe to the present this book not onl... Lees meer.

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Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values the adult unmarr... Lees meer.

An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day Although there have been over 700 illustrators of Poe s work... Lees meer.

Before Einstein examines the discourse of hyperspace philosophy and its position within the network of new ideas at the end of the nineteenth century. Hyperspace philosophy grew out of the concept of a fourth spatial dimension an idea that became increasingly debat... Lees meer.

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton s selected verse recovering an important and prolific figure from the Romantic era. Instantly recognisable to his contemporaries as the Quaker poet Barton wrote nature and landscape poetry in a distinctive vein as well... Lees meer.

May Alcott Nieriker Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century such as gender and class discrimination still r... Lees meer.

A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London. This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores the achievements of the Rossettis in the context of the Victorian era and... Lees meer.

This anthology is the first collection of primary science articles written by scientists working in America during the nineteenth century. This volume is a brief anthology of the most influential writing by American scientists between 1800 and 1900. Arranged themati... Lees meer.

Hawthorne s Literary History collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne s most memorable early tales do history but p... Lees meer.