Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work.
Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass.
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.
This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s.
This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s.
That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject.
That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject.
Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass.
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children's literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of Ukraine's nationhood in the nineteenth century.
This book is about the following:Positive and negative aspects of nutritionWhat to eat and drink and not to eat and drinkThe importance of exerciseThe necessity of vitamins, minerals, and waterThe endocrine gland systems fight-or-flight reflexWhich solvents to avoidHow to prevent or treat diseases nutritionally, including the following:1.
The body is a marvelous yet intricate vessel-like structure made up of many organic components that work mechanically and chemically, but it depends on energy to function.
This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management.
An analysis of the French stylist's influence on the Irish author, proving a parallel not only in technique but also in character drawing and descriptive detail.
Examination of the best writing from periodicals of the time, showing the tone of general criticism, the phrases of literature that engaged the critics, and how criticism varied in different parts of the country.
Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large.
The author draws upon the methodologies of theater and cultural studies to examine the construction of "e;the Orient"e; on the Parisian stage during the nineteenth century, the period of France's first imperial expansions into North Africa and the Middle East.
Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adulteryindeed, of all explicit representations of sexualityin turn made censorship for obscene libel unnecessary.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn both her life and her art, Charlotte Bront was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive.
Joseph Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke were in direct competition with other forms of public discourse for interpretive dominance of their age.
In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.
The inspiration for Blessed Nourishment exploded upon Dr Lachmans soul as he visited the incredible land of Israela place no one can experience without being changed.
