Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment.

This Brief describes the chemical features of canned food products and gives background information on the technology of canning foods.

Ascorbic acid (AsA), vitamin C, is one of the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants and animals.

This text provides an important overview of the contributions of edible insects to ecological sustainability, livelihoods, nutrition and health, food culture and food systems around the world.

This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death.

While the skeletal effects of vitamin D are well-documented, the role and importance of vitamin D outside of bone health has not been well-established.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.

This handbook provides key information on the clinical use of nutraceuticals, an increasingly common practice grounded in an understanding of the pharmacological activities of natural compounds and clinical evidence of efficacy and safety.

This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century.

This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work.

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering - while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse.

Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex.

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies.

This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors.

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars.

This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies.

This book examines women's domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large.

In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle's creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives.

This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change.

This book offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment.

This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century.

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an "e;attempter.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

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.

This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson's major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-3).

This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses.

This book broadens the scope of inquiry of neo-Victorian studies by focusing primarily on screen adaptations and appropriations of Victorian literature and culture.

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture.

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century.

This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own.

This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen's presence in Victorian critical and popular writings.

This book seeks to frame the "e;the idea of India"e; in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s).

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.

This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century.

This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.