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• Publisher : SUNY Press
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• Release Date : 08 January 2009

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 June 2014

This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 11 November 2019

This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such

• Publisher : UCL Press
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• Release Date : 06 October 2022

Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 November 2021

Contingency is not just a feature of modern politics, finance, and culture—by thinking contingently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narratives and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Contingencies shows how scientists, novelists,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 15 March 2018

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 July 2015

The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 31 August 2023

Science, Medicine, and Lineage in Popular Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 21 May 2014

The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
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• Release Date : 01 March 2020

Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy descriptions of the buildings where characters live, work, and pray, we may not always notice the stories these buildings tell. But when we do