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.

One of the most important and neglected works of early American economics Mathew Carey s The New Olive Branch offers insight into political economy as it happened in early America and provides an excellent example of resistance to Adam Smith and classical economics.... Lees meer.

Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children s classic The Secret Garden but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist dramatist and writer of children s stories. Of high literary quality her novels covered a rang... Lees meer.

Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge s religious writings it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s and substanti... Lees meer.

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime late Victorian scientists radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of... 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.

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.

Frank Norris and American Naturalism brings together in one volume Donald Pizer s lifelong exploration of Frank Norris s work ranging from his 1955 discussion of point of view in The Octopus to his 2010 essay on the thematic unity of that novel. The essays as a who... Lees meer.

The book collects Pizer s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. The book collects Pizer s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. Of these two seek to describe the movement as a... 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.

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.

Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South by authors both celebrated and obscure are presented along with background readings themselves often chilling placing the tales in a historical context. The twelve Gothic tales of this collection... Lees meer.

Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle Charles Darwin and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning her contemporary standing as a writer the thoughtful woman par excellence has been obscured as has her role in... Lees meer.