Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years.

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gut microbiome/microflora in nutrition, metabolism, disease prevention and health issues, including farm animal health and food value, and human gastrointestinal health and immunity.

The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck's father, Pap Finn.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.

Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history.

Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott's Waverley; or 'tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels.

Hölderlin in allen Facetten.

First published in 1980.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

There is no English novelist whose reputation has fluctuated so violently as that of George Meredith.

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women.

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856-1935) - a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics.

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

Vacillating between the longue duree and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "e;history"e; means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement.

This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race theory, queer and gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and others.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "e;brides"e; of Christ.

Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components.

The influences of William Wordsworth's writing and evolutionary theory-the nineteenth century's two defining visions of nature-conflicted in the Victorian period.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1968, Maxwell examines the life and work of Herman Melville.

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation.

Use this valuable book to make better food/diet/nutrition supplement choices for your clients (and yourself)!

A comprehensive guide to Austen''s works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

A radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States.

Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.