Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications.

Vitamin Deficiency: Prevalence, Management and Outcomes first assesses the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and summarizes published randomized controlled studies concerning the supplementation of vitamin D in pregnant women, reporting on the maternal and neonatal outcomes in Asia-Pacific, the United States, Europe, Africa, and the rest of world.

Among the aims of the present book is to educate locals about the danger of this group of fishes as part of a public education and awareness program that should be initiated in the coastal areas.

This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928).

A study of Dickens''s hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction.

A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme.

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics.

Poor diet and substandard nutrition are underlying causes of many diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.

This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise.

Written by the author of "e;Browning and the Fictions of Identity,"e; this is a study of the discourse of self in Victorian poetry.

What is African American about African American literature?

While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule.

American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots.

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population presents scientific evidence of the impact bioactive foods can have in the prevention and mediation of age related diseases.

An invaluable guide to the popular writer of sensation novels.

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation.

First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge's literary criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking, examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry.

Lose weight while enjoying delicious meals with these 125 insulin resistant recipes and meal plans to improve your health and lower your risk for type 2 diabetes.

What is it like being a woman - in society, in the home and as a person in one's own right?

First published in 1980.

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management programs and the protection of drinking water resources and the potential effects of climate changes on the availability of these same resources.

Whether you've read Jane Austen once or read her yearly, or if you simply yearn to be Elizabeth or Mr.

First serialized in the journal "e;The Dark Blue"e; and published shortly thereafter in the short story collection In a Glass Darkly, Le Fanu's 1872 vampire tale is in many ways the overlooked older sister of Bram Stoker's more acclaimed Dracula.

First full-length study of Shelley''s remarkable notebooks and the visual and textual imagination they reveal.

The Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism, which have long served to designate major late nineteenth-century American fiction.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century.

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature.

Nanotechnology is rapidly growing as a new technology alternative to create advance materials with unique characteristics and performance for vast applications in a range of industrial sectors.

This History traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day.

The bare events of Dostoevsky's life - his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts - go far to account for his strange intensity of vision.

Blake has maintained an enduring popularity amongst a large and diverse audience as a poet, artist and engraver.

This edited volume concerns a group of devastating neurological disorders that share a common pathological mechanism, namely the aggregation and deposition of insoluble, proteinaceous lesions, termed 'amyloid'.

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the 'colour' Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910.

The resistance topic is timely given current events.

This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era.

Gerade die jüngsten Fälle von Lebensmittelrückrufaktionen haben die Brisanz von fehlerhaften Lebensmitteln - die Gesundheitsgefährdung für den Verbraucher sowie die nachteiligen finanziellen und Image-Folgen für die lebensmittelherstellenden Unternehmen - gezeigt.

Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

First published anonymously, as 'a lady', Jane Austen is now among the world's most famous and highly revered authors.

In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue.

This title, first published in 1909, presents a selection of the most important essays by members of the renowned Browning Society, which existed to promulgate the works of and appreciation for perhaps the greatest English poet of the Victorian Age.

Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities' lives, livelihood and gendered relations.

This book correlates different minerals and lipids serum profiles with the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in South Asian countries with special emphasis on Pakistan.

Pulsed Electric Fields to Obtain Healthier and Sustainable Food for Tomorrow illustrates innovative applications derived from the use of pulsed electric fields beyond microbial inactivation.

This book investigates the aesthetic, theoretical, and historical challenges that confront German writers of war from 1800 to the present.