Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of fiction.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

This book addresses pertinent issues relating to microplastic pollution including its sources and sink of the microplastics and their environmental fate.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

Incorporating Science, Body, and Yoga in Nutrition-Based Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery is a valuable, innovative guide that demonstrates how clients and clinicians can untangle, discern, and learn from the complex world of eating disorders.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky.

First published in 1972.

Adults living in certain olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean Basin display high life expectancies and rates of chronic disease that are among the lowest in the world.

Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

This novel and informative book discusses the various aspects of seafood quality.

Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets.

This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory.

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre.

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

Master culinary skills and prepare for assessment with the book which professional chefs have relied on for over 50 years to match the qualification and support their training and careers.

The lifelong care required for bariatric surgery patients often presents colleagues in the office with the situation of having to identify surgical and nutritive complications related to the previous surgery.

A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.

This book offers a thorough review of the scientific research that links the consumption of grapes to better health.

Madly after the Muses examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873), the nineteenth-century poet and playwright.

An original investigation of Woolf''s ambivalent attitude to her Victorian past and the modernist present, first published in 2007.

Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality.

First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton's critical reputation.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die optimale Grundlage für die Ausbildung und Praxis in der ganzheitlichen und kausalen Diagnostik und Therapie nach F.

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art.

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern biological tools and techniques.

Foot and mouth disease, CJD, GM, and fears about modern methods of food production have put food safety in the spotlight.

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

Growth is one of the human body's most intricate processes: each body part or region has its own unique growth patterns.

Chapters on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine our insight into Wuthering Heights.

Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined.

Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett.