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Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully with the past to generate moral lessons.

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Reveals how British writers and artists engaged with archaeological discourse as a crucial mode of conceptualising modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining multiple literary genres and visual media from 1880-1930, the book traces archaeological discourse in discussions about sexuality, aesthetics, authenticity, and historiography.

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Charlotte Bront: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronts life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronts first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

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Charlotte Bront: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronts life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronts first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

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Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory -- .

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Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory

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Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

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Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .

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Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dantes reception by conducting the first material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in Victorian culture.

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Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dantes reception by conducting the first material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in Victorian culture.

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Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .

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Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .

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At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with "modernity" that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies. -- .

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At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with modernity that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.

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This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. -- .

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This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance.

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Madrid on the move offers an account of illustrated print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective. Drawing on different kinds of printed images and texts, the book explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. -- .

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This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women's political activism. -- .

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully with the past to generate moral lessons. -- .

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Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.

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This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-sicle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period.

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Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world -- .