Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature.

This book provides an overview of mitigation strategies and positive health effects of Maillard Reaction products in the contexts of food processing and storage.

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 what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, inlight of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith.

This work explores Dickens's perception of Italy as it appears in the travel book Pictures from Italy.

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism.

George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century.

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell's novels.

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans.

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

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 explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature.

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 is about Victorian women's representations of colonial life in India.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement.

This Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

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

A Vindication of the Redhead  investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of nutrition in different scenarios of maternal diabetes, including the Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic mother, gestational diabetes, and postpartum diabetes.

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

Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century-be they alive, stuffed or fossilised-and the development of children's literature at this time.

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

This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms.

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

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

This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts.

This book brings film adaptation of literature to bear on the question of how nineteenth-century imperial ideologies of progress continue to inform power inequalities in a global capitalist age.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature.

This book shows how Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination.

This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western nations slowly evolved toward modern democracies with shared transnational connections.

In this book, both basic and advanced concepts are discussed for considering mixtures from initial exposure characterization through evaluation of risk associated with combined exposures.

This third edition reviews the epidemiology, policies, programs and outcome indicators that are used to determine improvements in nutrition and health that lead to development.

This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800.

This book explores John Keats's reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres.

This newest addition to the Nutrition and Health series is a comprehensive, yet portable, guide to the use of dietary fiber for the management of health and disease.

This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities.

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers' attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece.