Victorians – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 6

Amy L. Montz

Dressing for England

Illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture. Dressing for England argues that women's interest in fashionable clothing-in dress that appealed to a sop…

P J Brownsword,

For Valour The Complete History of The Victoria Cross Volume Four

For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Crossis the first definitive reference detailing every winner of the Victoria Cross, the highest award in the British military honor system, awarded for ga…

Liwen Zhang

Novel Pedagogy

Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres. Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious…

Shannon Draucker

Sounding Bodies

Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? Many Victorian writers believed so. In the mid-nineteenth century, acoustical scientists such as Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall described music as…

Charles Dickens,

Christmas Ghost Stories

Reviving the Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, Christmas Ghost Stories gathers spine-chilling classics from Dickens, Gaskell, James, and more, for some late-night Christmas re…

Fiona Keating

Smoke and Silk

A debut historical mystery set in Victorian London's first - and now forgotten - Chinatown. As Pearl Fitzgerald fights for justice to find the killer of a murdered Chinese docker, she unexpectedly falls i…

Lily Cattens

The past between us

Ihr Albtraum beginnt mit einem Schritt - und endet in einer anderen Zeit ...Verraten und hoffnungslos irrt die 20-jährige Melody durch die Straßen Londons, bis sie im Jahr 1862 erwacht - gefangen in einer…

Natasha Anderson

The Reader, the Body, and the Book

How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters' trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant, somatic…

Judith M Taylor

Women and Gardens

Judith M. Taylor's Women and Gardens highlights the depth and breadth of women's influence on gardens and landscapes in the last two hundred years and profiles many unknown or intentionally ignored facts …

James Aaron Green

Sensation Fiction and Modernity

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mob…

Anna S. Berger

Spectres of Masculinity

Why are so many ghost stories narrated by men - and what do these tales reveal about ideas of masculinity? Anna S. Berger explores how Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction reflects anxieties aroun…

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey

This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and legal culture b…

Preet S Aulakh

Empire and the Peasant Proprietor

As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the 19th century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated careful considerations about land tenure relationships…

Sarah Penner,

Die geheime Gesellschaft

Zwei mutige Frauen auf der Suche nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit1873: In einem verlassenen Château außerhalb von Paris lebt die Wahrsagerin Vaudeline D'Allaire. Sie ist weithin bekannt für ihr Talent für …

Emilia Hart,

Die Unbändigen

Männer haben versucht sie zu zähmen - aber die Kraft der Weyward-Frauen sprengt alle FesselnIch bin eine Weyward und trage das Wilde in mir.KATE, 2019Kate flieht aus London und lässt alles zurück - endlic…

Wood

The Wake of HMS Challenger

A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 yearsIn December 1872, HMSChallenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. I…

Victoria Monét

Jaguar II

Marianne Faithfull

Give My Love To London

Rezensionen »... ist ›Give My Love To London‹ damit ein grandios intensives Album, eines dieser Leuchtturmwerke künstlerischer Unmittelbarkeit. Es fügt sich in die Reihe der Meisterstücke ein, welche Mar…

Adam Laurence Rovner

The Jew Who Would Be King

"This astonishing story of a British Jewish adventurer who made an unlikely career for himself on Africa's colonial frontier doubles as a searching inquiry into the ways that slavery, sexism, racism,…