Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R Topham
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226676517)
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526133687)
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the Sout...Loe edasi...
Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jennifer Wallis
Sari: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822945512)
Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine...Loe edasi...
Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artifi...Loe edasi...
Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nin...Loe edasi...
Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature, history and science the authors explore the theme...Loe edasi...
What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the fi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199582563)
In the 1840s novelists such as Charlotte Bronte and Dickens began for the first time to explore the inner world of the child. At the same time, the first psychiatric studies of childhood started to appear. Moving between literary and scientific texts...Loe edasi...
In Agnes Grey Anne Brontë drew on her own experiences as a governess, trying to cope with unmanageable children with little respect from her employer. It combines a wonderful study of Victorian responses to children with a story of romantic love, an...Loe edasi...
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Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Brontes first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel tre...Loe edasi...
This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworths introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian val...Loe edasi...
Mary Gaskells North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves t...Loe edasi...
Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of sc...Loe edasi...
This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Brontë as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Brontës, Sally Shut...Loe edasi...
Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521836371)
Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of sc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262033183)
Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences. Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publicati...Loe edasi...
In April 2000, literary and cultural historians journeyed from Britain, Ireland, Wales, North American, and Austria to Leeds, England, to attend the conference Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, where they explored how ideas about science...Loe edasi...
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Latimer, the narrator of The Lifted Veil, possesses powers of seeing into the future, and into the minds of others. To an artist these would be great gifts, but to him they are only a curse. Afflicted by his burden of knowledge, he marries the cold...Loe edasi...
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Jane Eyre (1847) has enjoyed huge popularity since first publication, and its success owes much to its exceptional emotional power. Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Rochester. Her integr...Loe edasi...
