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Victorian Boston today: ten walking tours
Victorian Society in America. New England ChapterNew England Chapter Pauline Chase Harrell, Margaret Supplee Smith. Tour 2 by Margaret Supplee Smith Boston's South End: zMid-Nineteenth Century Urban Planning and '-Architecture Introduction Two unique residential districts were ...
Victorian Sappho
Yopie PrinsBy "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England.
Daily Life in Victorian England
Sally MitchellThe most comprehensive social history of Victorian England to date.
Life in Victorian England:
Christopher HibbertHere, the eminent historian Christopher Hibbert explores life in Victorian England, a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous English basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go ...
Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History
Andrea BroomfieldProvides a history of food and cooking in Victorian England, explaining how recipes reflected their writers' socioeconomic status, detailing the evolution of breakfast and lunch, and tracing the snob appeal of foods with French names.
Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
Asa BriggsExamines the achievements and ideas of the critics, chroniclers, and reformers responsible for molding the character of Victorian England
Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America
Mark C. CarnesIn this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian America and that secret societies, such as the Freemasons, offered men and boys an ...
An Introduction to Bioceramics
PreviewChapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Pyrolytic Carbon Prostheses: Clinical Results Jonathan Shute Bioceramic Composites Paul ...
A Fairy's Guide to Disaster: Away From Whipplethorn (Book One)
A.W. HartoinCopyright Also by A.W. Hartoin for Google Dedication PrologueChapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 ...
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
Linda K. HughesGaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace.
England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia
Philip HoareA kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.
Brain Lesion Localization and Developmental Functions: ...
PreviewChapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Limbic system Early hippocampal disease and memory disorders Daria Riva, Arianna Usilla, Chiara ...
The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the ...
Mark JacksonThis book examines both how and why certain children and adults were labeled as "feeble-minded" and segregated into special schools and colonies in late Victorian and Edwardian England.
The Princess and the Goblin: MacDonald's Works
George MacDonaldThe Princess and the Goblin CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII ...
Social Class: How Does It Work?
PreviewAnnette Lareau, Dalton Conley. Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 PART III Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Bringing Sibling Differences In: Enlarging Our Understanding of the ...
Family Ties in Victorian England
Claudia NelsonA vivid look at the Victorian British family emphasizing interpersonal relationships, using both non-fiction and fiction sources.
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
PreviewDiscusses the work of a wide range of women writers popular in Victorian England but neglected or forgotten since.
Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society
PreviewChapter 4 The Importance of Insincerity and Inauthenticity for Self and Society: Why Honesty is Not the Best Policy Dennis D. Waskul In this chapter I explore the importance — or lack thereof — of sincerity and authenticity for self and society.
The Bibliographical Society of America
Bibliographical Society of AmericaWeb page for the Bibliographical Society of America offers organizational and membership information.
A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the ...
Gillian CooksonHe deserves to be better known. The story of Jenkin is of a life lived to the full. It illuminates many aspects of Victorian intellectual society, and of the organisation of science and engineering in his time.
Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
Jina MoonCobbe, Frances Power. “The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes (1863).” Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology. Ed. Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. 263-290. —. “Wife-Torture in England ...
Victorian Reformation: The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church ...
Dominic JanesGraber, Gary W., Ritual Legislation in the Victorian Church of England: Antecedents and Passage of the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (Lewiston: Mellon Research University Press, 1993). Graeber, David, 'Fetishism as social creativity: ...
Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society
Dante Society of AmericaDante's Fame in England: 1536-1586 JACKSON CAMPBELL BOSWELL Introduction Although Paget Toynbee spent a lifetime studying Dante, much of it devoted to Dante's fame in English art and literature over more than five centuries , his ...
Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England: ...
Alessandro ArienzoChapter 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception of the Principe in Henrician England Alessandra Petrina The standard critical attitude on Machiavelli's reception in sixteenthcentury England privileges the responses of the Elizabethan age, taking ...
Paternalism in Early Victorian England
David RobertsIn this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival, amplification, and transformation of the ideals of paternalism as a social remedy in the Early Victorian Period.
Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Mike HugginsDisreputable Pleasures poses a powerful challenge to the accepted public image of Victorian society and will greatly add to our present understanding of Victorian Britain.
Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the ...
Charles Henry PopeExcerpt from Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" Of Charles Pierce Merriam, the Collections of James Sheldon Merriam, Etc The impulse to make this book came from one who was born in New England, ...
Dante Society of America Correspondence and Records
Dante Society of AmericaConcerns memberships, dues, attendance at meetings, society publications, and the Dante prize given annually for the best essay on Dante.
Dante Society of America Additional Correspondence
Dante Society of AmericaConcerns memberships, dues, attendance at meetings, society publications, and the Dante prize given annually for the best essay on Dante.
The Vital Century: England's Economy 1714-1815
John RuleEngland's Economy 1714-1815 John Rule. Social and Economic History of England Edited by Asa Briggs Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest ( 2nd Edition) H. R. Loyn Medieval England: Rural Society and Economic Change ...
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