Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'.

In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice.

Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War.

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international diplomacy, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of multilateralism.

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

Essential fatty acids are fatty acids that humans must ingest because the body requires them for good health, but it cannot synthesize itself.

This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe's writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature.

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist seances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siecle.

Over the past decade, much has been learned about the damaging effects that moderate to severe alcohol use has on tissue nutrient levels and dietary intake.

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer.

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work.

This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's engagement with the phenomenon of death.

This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "e;natural"e; family home.

Health professionals are recognizing the major role that nutraceuticals play in health enhancement.

Die Zeitschrift erscheint seit 1987 halbjahrlich und ist im Aufsatzteil im Wechsel aktuellen Themen gewidmet oder frei konzipiert.

Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous.

'One of the best social commentators on Dickens.

Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime.

There was, in the nineteenth century, a distinction made between "e;writers"e; and "e;authors,"e; Susan S.

Food consumption is vital to human survival.

Evaluation of Novel Protein Products is a collection of several scientific essays that resulted from a symposium held in Stockholm.

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICSGeneral Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley WellsOxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O.

Presents the latest research on the analysis, metabolism, function, and physicochemical properties of fiber, fiber concentrates, and bioactive isolates--exploring the effect of fiber on chronic disease, cardiovascular health, cancer, and diabetes.

Today over 40 million adults and children worldwide are infected with HIV, however knowledge of the disease has increased greatly and the prognosis is now good for those with access to anti-retroviral treatment.

Uncle Tom's Cabin continues to provoke impassioned discussions among scholars; to serve as the inspiration for theater, film, and dance; and to be the locus of much heated debate surrounding race relations in the United States.

In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts.

This book discusses the sources, human health hazards and risk prevention strategies associated with aeolian dust particles (fine and ultrafine) in the atmosphere.

Unlike other areas of medicine where statistics are meticulously kept by governments and global organizations, there are no accurate data to describe the number of the world's inhabitants who are overweight, obese, or morbidly obese.

Between the Lines examines the role of three women poets of African descent--Frances Harper, Cristina Ayala, and Auta de Souza--in shaping the literary history of the Americas.

This book discusses modern technologies for utilizing various types of agricultural waste as a direct means of properly managing its abundance.

This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism.

As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile.

This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age.

This accessibly written book examines the most commonly taken dietary supplements, exploring what they are and what they're purported to do, and summarizing key research findings regarding their potential health benefits and risks.

Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

Wie kaum ein anderer Autor des Realismus ist Adalbert Stifter in den letzten 25 Jahren grundlegenden Umdeutungen unterzogen worden.

This installment in the Techniques in Life Science and Biomedicine for the Non-Expert series aims to describe ESR spectroscopy as a tool for different applications, such as Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Science, Paleontology & Geochronology and Food Science.