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Linda Freedman

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Why does the myth of the Fall continue to matter in an increasingly secularised world? Why do we continue to imagine a point where everything went wrong, and why must we imagine that things were once bett…

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…

Juliana Chow

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book bring…

Marianne Noble

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harrie…

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…

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 …

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) …

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…

Andrea Toschi & Carlo Mazzoli - Divertimento Italiano

Andrea Toschi, Carlo Mazzoli

Mary Grace Albanese

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center …

Savitt

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-And Early-Twentieth-Century America

An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were s…

Demilich

Nespithe (Transparent Red Smoky Vinyl)

Michael Webb

Italian Nineteenth Century Instrumental Music

Italy has long been associated with opera, and opera with Italy. But what happened to that other face of Italian music, the rich tradition of instrumental music that inspired a whole generation of Europea…

Nightmares in the Long Nineteenth Century

From Johann Heinrich Füssli's 1781 oil painting The Nightmare, which was to become the iconic image of a newly emergent sensibility, to the first psychoanalytic studies culminating in "On the Nightma…

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British …

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

As the general public in Britain read about Egypt's history, visited collections, and viewed the material remains of a past that had not yet been uncovered by Western scholars, the mysterious nature of Eg…

Margaret Fuller

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Reproduction of the original, first published in 1845. Mid-19th-century American feminist treatise. A landmark work advocating for female equality, intellectual independence, and spiritual self-fulfillmen…

George Paston

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

Reproduction of the original, first published in 1902. 1902 biographical collection by George Paston (Emily Morse Symonds), profiling notable 19th-century British literary figures, eccentrics, and artists.

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

Throughout the professionalization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, there were several debates that raged: the purpose of the pyramids, and who built them; the meaning of hieroglyphs; the styling …