Nineteenth-century – Bücher, CDs, Super Audio CDs und mehr, Seite 7

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 …

Thomas Allen

Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

Lucas Nossaman

Divine Cosmos

Tells the story of how 19th-century American writers re-envisioned science and religion in the age of German naturalist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt's "cosmic" ecology.When Alexander von Humb…

Essaka Joshua

Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. Few accounts of Gothic literature, however, interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability, or to the socially determined aspects of disa…

Essaka Joshua

Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. Few accounts of Gothic literature, however, interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability, or to the socially determined aspects of disa…

Earl J Hess

Civil War Cavalry

"The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standa…

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…

Shirley Samuels

Haunted by the Civil War

How the legacy of the Civil War-as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time-has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitm…

Melissa Frazier

Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

Inês Robalo

Unhinging Perception

Unhinging Perception: Fiction and Materiality in the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel reconsiders realism's relationship to materiality, fictionality, and human perception. Through a comparatist reading o…

Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

Stephen Boys Smith

Two Months on the Nile

A new primary source on the history of travel to Egypt and the 'Golden Age' of Archaeology and Egyptology.

Demilich

Nespithe

Maeve Adams

Rhetoric and Resistance

This book explores how nineteenth-century literature shaped modern democratic dissent through fiction, poetry, and journalism. It traces dissent's literary history from Romantic and Victorian writers to m…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums…

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…

Madeline Lee Zehnder

Print for the Pocket

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often overlooked feature of their publishing landscape: the pocket-sized book.Analyzing archival…