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Mary Grace Albanese

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center …

Snait B. Gissis

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

Simon Rennie

Cotton Famine Poetry

This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to the severe economic downturn in the cotton trade in Lancashire and elsewhere precipitated b…

Laura Rotunno

The New Woman Student in Fact and Fiction, 1880-1914

Laura Rotunno proves that there is still much to be said and learned about British New Woman fiction. Here, she successfully counters the established view of turn-of-the-century novels about "Girton …

Betsy Golden Kellem

Jumping Through Hoops

"Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as The Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKoy, the Two-Headed …

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

Sarah Gold McBride

Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

Marie Carter

Mortimer and the Witches

UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit themUnder the pseudonym Q. K. Phi…

Ethnography and Folklore in Print

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors analyze a diverse range of sources, such as caricatures, j…

Kelley Kreitz

Printing Nueva York

Uncovers the network of Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York, whose media innovations fueled anticolonial struggles and democratic ideals At the end of the nineteenth century, New…

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

"A must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical Review The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the ninet…

Allison Scardino Belzer

The Ashurst Sisters

This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in…

Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century

This book examines the lively and complex nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about the meaning of fat and its varied implications for health, beauty, and status.

The Art Market and the Museum

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on n…

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