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Keith Hanley,
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to rep…

lieferbar ab 21.1.2027.

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Sercan Öztekin
Crime, Control, and Power in the Mid-Victorian Novel

Sercan Öztekin performs a critical investigation into the notions of crime, criminality, and the legal system in mid-nineteenth century England, and the reflections of these concepts in the works of Wilki…

lieferbar ab 7.1.2027.

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Chris Jordan-Clark
Jane Austen's English Verdure

Why does the landscape matter in Jane Austen's novels? Horticulturist and literary scholar Chris Jordan-Clark offers a much needed and hitherto neglected context for the landscapes in Austen's fiction.Jor…

lieferbar ab 4.2.2027.

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Michael Dirda
The Great Age of Storytelling

With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"---as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called---aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fan…

lieferbar ab 1.12.2026.

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Byron and His Others

By placing his work in dialogue with Classical and Romantic writers, this collection presents new discoveries about Byron's uncanny writing process, complex manuscripts, unique language, and unexpected in…

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James Aaron Green,
Fictions of Radical Life Extension

In this major new study, James Aaron Green provides the first account of literary thought experiments published from 1878 to 1918 that speculate on the prospect of radically longer lives.Green argues that…

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Byron and His Others

By placing his work in dialogue with Classical and Romantic writers, this collection presents new discoveries about Byron's uncanny writing process, complex manuscripts, unique language, and unexpected in…

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Lesa Scholl
Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

Focusing questions of the soul and its relationship to the body in the context of Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, this book exploresthe ways in which medicine and theology…

lieferbar ab 27.5.2027.

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Jackie Goodman
The Narrative Power of Domestic Space

The Narrative Power of Domestic Space: Metaphors for Change in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Women's Writing examines how domestic environments function as active agents in nineteenth- and twen…

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Harriet Newnes
Animal and Human Faces in the Long Nineteenth Century

A unique investigation into the relationship between changing conceptions of animals and humans in the long nineteenth century, this book examines the different ways in which faces were read over the long…

lieferbar ab 18.2.2027.

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Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870-1910

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Exploring the provocative intersection of celebrity and the Gothic, this book examines representations of decaying, dead and undead celebrities in literary texts, visual media and popular culture. As far …

lieferbar ab 27.5.2027.

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Stephen Knight
The Chartist Fiction of Ernest Jones

In this comprehensive study, Stephen Knight documents the writing career of Ernest Jones, one of the primary figures within the Chartist movement. While much has been said about Ernest Jones as a politica…

lieferbar ab 12.11.2026.

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Jesse Cordes Selbin
Critical Masses

How close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenshipFor the past century, close reading has been seen as a specialized academic enterprise: the invention of pro…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic invest…

lieferbar ab 27.10.2026.

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Natalie Roxburgh
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

lieferbar ab 26.11.2026.

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Chris Jordan-Clark
Jane Austen's English Verdure

Why does the landscape matter in Jane Austen's novels? Horticulturist and literary scholar Chris Jordan-Clark offers a much needed and hitherto neglected context for the landscapes in Austen's fiction.Jor…

lieferbar ab 4.2.2027.

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Piya Pal-Lapinski
Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities. …

lieferbar ab 21.1.2027.

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Queen Victoria of Great Britain,
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of h…

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