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Serie: Series in victorian studies
PaperbackEngels9780821420782
15-9-2013
This collection will significantly reshape the understanding of English language literary culture in India. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821419410
13-5-2011
Provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It demonstrates that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860, and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821420171
2-10-2012
Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821420348
15-4-2013
Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises, this book argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821421857
4-1-2016
GebondenEngels9780821422243
15-3-2016
In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821414934
30-6-2003
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821421963
3-5-2016
Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, or literary narrative. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821420850
1-3-2014
Melodrama has long been criticized for its reliance on improbable situations and overwhelming emotion. These very aspects, however, made it a useful and appealing literary mode for British imperial propagandists in the late 19th century. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821425640
12-11-2024
The first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, and the position of women in the Victorian period. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821413883
15-9-2001
This study argues that, due to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its images of women at work, the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or male radical, because she exposed contradictions in the class and gender ideologies of the period. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780821413890
15-9-2001
This study argues that, due to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its images of women at work, the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or male radical, because she exposed contradictions in the class and gender ideologies of the period. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821419427
15-7-2011
Explores the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Meer
GebondenEngels9780821419649
11-5-2011
Demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, this book reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. Meer