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Laura Fox Gill

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture

The intermedial legacy of John Milton in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture features writers not only engaging with Milton's works but also responding to each other's rich and varied interpr…

Robert St Clair

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we f…

Philippa Lewis

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Shyness in Nineteenth-Century France

This book offers a history of shyness in France. In particular, it interrogates the seeming strangeness of shyness in the long nineteenth century, positing it as an everyday experience which nonetheless t…

Andrew Kopec

Sink or Swim

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales a…

Joel Rasmussen

Rasmussen, J: Short History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Was nineteenth-century philosophy merely a substitute for religion? The American philosopher Richard Rorty once argued precisely that. Rorty saw intellectuals of the long nineteenth-century (c 1789-1914) …

Thomas Allen

Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

Jacob Ivey

Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal

This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during 'the formative period' of the colony between 1845 and 1899. It examines how whi…

Michiel van Dam

Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France

This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief. The author argues that …

Matthew Warner Osborn

Night Hawk

Unmasks the long-forgotten story of how a flying, superhuman vigilante played a pivotal role in the founding of the American labor movement.On July 5, 1828, more than a century before Superman arrived on …

Matthew Warner Osborn

Night Hawk

Unmasks the long-forgotten story of how a flying, superhuman vigilante played a pivotal role in the founding of the American labor movement.On July 5, 1828, more than a century before Superman arrived on …

Shuhita Bhattacharjee

Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings

Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings: Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture examines the curatorial and literary representations of colonial idols in British writin…

Mark A. Mark A. Pottinger

Science and the Romantic Vision in Early Nineteenth-Century Opera

An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century real…

Jeffrey Wheatley

American Fanatics

Shows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroadIn 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably c…

Jeffrey Wheatley

American Fanatics

Shows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroadIn 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably c…

Howard Leroy Malchow

Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

A history of transatlantic culture and Anglo-American relations over the long nineteenth century, showing how it evolved through language, theatre, racial attitudes, tourism and heritage.

Laurie Anderson

Big Science (Red Vinyl)

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Michael E. Woods

The Business of Bigotry

Amid nineteenth-century America's fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814--96). A New York--b…