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Victoria Krebs

Oldenburg 1635

Zwei grausame Morde in der Gegenwart führen zu einem finsteren Verbrechen aus dem Jahr 1635 zurück. Die tödlichen Spuren eines jahrhundertealten Vermächtnisses verbinden Vergangenheit und Gegenwart und la…

Joshua Gooch

Dispositions of Liberalism in Victorian Literature

Joshua Gooch examines how nineteenth-century writers use genre to imagine new ways of thinking-feeling about their implication by racial capitalism, from hope and trust to comfort, cunning, and defiance.C…

Heather Hind

Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture

.- 1 Introduction: Working with Hair.- 2 A History of British Hairwork: Desire.- 3 A History of British Hairwork: Anxiety.- 4 Matter: Hairwork, Touch, and Connection in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Emi…

Victoria Königin von England

Blätter aus dem Tagebuch der Königin Victoria nach dem englischen Original bearbeitet

Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1868. Der Verlag Antigonos spezialisiert sich auf die Herausgabe von Nachdrucken historischer Bücher. Wir achten darauf, dass diese Werke der Öffentlichkeit…

Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature traces the evolution of the waltz from subversive to traditional across the 19th century, focusing on the Victorian authors who wrote about the waltz, exploring i…

Victoria Williams

Musings Of Creekdipper

Denae Dyck

Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an i…

Julia Phillips

The Persistence of Witchcraft in Victorian England

This book presents an alternative argument to the established opinion that witchcraft began to decline in the eighteenth century and that by the early twentieth century at the latest, it had largely cease…

Michael J. Turner

Church Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain

This book is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the church union movement, it describes and explains unprecedented levels of cler…

R. D. Mcchesney

An Afghan Prince in Victorian England

In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imperial might, Britain sought to strengthen ties with the strategically…

Donna Loftus,

Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

Mark Jackson

Infanticide and Baby-farming in Victorian England

This open access book explores the tragic case of the Torquay Murder of 1865, when the body of a young boy was discovered abandoned on the outskirts of Torquay in Devon, England. Having identified the chi…

Jack Morrell

John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science

John Phillips was one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Orphaned at the age of seven and brought up by his uncle, he rose to hold a number of highly prestigious post…

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Today's environmental decimation and climate crises have arisen from our drive for individual material prosperity. We even appreciate nature primarily for its fulfilment of our interests, whether economic…

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Today's environmental decimation and climate crises have arisen from our drive for individual material prosperity. We even appreciate nature primarily for its fulfilment of our interests, whether economic…

Marlena Tronicke

Narrating Empire and Domesticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Fiction classified as 'neo-Victorian' has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate o…

Tahaney Alghrani

Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisa…

Kimberly J Stern

The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted …

Adrian Tait

Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.Late-Victo…