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This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topic...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
680
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN #
1405195584
EAN Code
9781405195584
ISBN #
9
Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explosion of...
Author
Pamela K. Gilbert
Binding
Paperback
Pages
268
Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN #
0791460266
EAN Code
9780791460269
ISBN #
3
As the idea of citizenship became more inclusive in the nineteenth century, England confronted the problem of those who seemed less fit for the responsibilities of political power. In a liberal society, fit behaviors had to originate in individual choices, rather than in coercion. Thus, social outre...
Author
Pamela K. Gilbert
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
194
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
ISBN #
081421052X
EAN Code
9780814210529
ISBN #
1
Imagined Londons explores the diverse ways that Britain's "global city" has been imagined and represented in literature, history, the arts, and popular culture, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. American and British contributors examine a variety of topics, ranging from poetry to a...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
268
Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN #
0791455025
EAN Code
9780791455029
ISBN #
14
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the infection of the imper...
Author
Pamela K. Gilbert
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
220
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
13
Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part...
Author
Pamela K. Gilbert
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN #
0791473449
EAN Code
9780791473443
ISBN #
8
Spans the full sweep of literary genres and figures that define this influential period, combining accessibility with an unmatched breadth of coverage and authoritative scholarship Comprises over 330 cross-referenced entries ranging from 1,000 to 7,000 words, arranged in A-Z format >Brings together...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
1944
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN #
1118405382
EAN Code
9781118405383
ISBN #
4
These fascinating watercolours, now part of the collection of The Natural History Museaum in London, have rarely been seen in colour and are being published here as part of the new Art of Nature series'
Author
Pamela Gilbert
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
128
Publisher
Merrell Publishers
ISBN #
1858940648
EAN Code
9781858940649
ISBN #
11