Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Die Fabel vom Schwarzkünstler Faust gehört zu den großen Stoffen der Weltliteratur.

Increased oxidative stress due to the production of excessive amounts of free radicals along with the effects of chronic inflammation plays a major role in the initiation and progression of most chronic diseases.

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own.

Over the past decade, much has been learned about the damaging effects that moderate to severe alcohol use has on tissue nutrient levels and dietary intake.

A revisionary study of the impact of Marian Evans''s early periodical-press career on her later success as a novelist.

Bridging the gap in expertise between coal and coalbed gas, subfields in which opportunities for cross training have been nonexistent, Coal and Coalbed Gas sets the standard for publishing in these areas.

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements.

This book is essential reading for an understanding of Conrad's fiction both as a product of the political, social and intellectual forces dominating the period 1870-1920, and of the pressures and influences in Conrad's own life.

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant.

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance.

This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women's history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film.

This book provides a practical overview of the treatment and management of celiac disease.

Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, mate, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with two prominent men of the eighteenth century, Thomas Edwards and George Cheyne.

Thanks to increased knowledge about nutrition, many threats to human health have been curbed.

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.

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses.

Die Verarbeitung der antiken Mythologie - und z.

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods?

Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery discusses nutritional deficiencies and requirements that are often present with diverse bariatric techniques as main mechanisms for weight loss.

The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna- tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs.

This is volume three of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century.

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature.

This book highlights the impact of nutrients on early placentation processes and their relevance for fetal growth and pregnancy outcome.

This new volume, Health Benefits of Secondary Phytocompounds from Plant and Marine Sources, looks at a selection of important issues and research topics on phytochemicals in plant-based therapeutics, covering bioactive compounds from both plant and marine sources.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century.

Based on extensive new research investigating the range of women's involvement in early nineteenth-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women's movements of the late century, Women and the People makes an original intervention in the historiography of the radical tradition by exploring the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism.

Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction.

An introduction for university students to important poets and forms of poetry between Dryden and Wordsworth.

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature.

How do we perceive evil?

The Advanced Dairy Chemistry series was first published in four volumes in the 1980s (under the title Developments in Dairy Chemistry) and revised in three volumes in the 1990s and 2000s.

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly.

Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people.

Der gesamte Aufbau des Heine-Handbuchs ist von der Absicht geleitet, umfassend und auf dem Stand der neuesten Forschung über die vielfältigen Aspekte von Zeit, Person, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines zu informieren.

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience.