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  1. A Victorian muse
    the afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in nineteenth-century literature
    Autor*in: Straub, Julia
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Continuum, London [u.a.]

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  2. Victorians and the Machine
    The Literary Response to Technology
    Erschienen: [1968]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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  3. The Triumph of Time
    A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, and Decadence
  4. The Victorian Temper
    A Study in Literary Culture
    Erschienen: [1951]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780674732797; 9780674732780
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    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Englische Literatur; English literature; Intellectual life; Literarisches Leben; Literatur; Literarisches Leben; Englisch; Literatur
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  5. The Spirit of Reform
    British Literature and Politics, 1832–1867
    Erschienen: [1977]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  6. The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
    Autor*in: Haley, Bruce
    Erschienen: [1978]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674284746; 9780674284739
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    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Public health / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Physical education and training / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Psychophysiology / History; Littérature anglaise / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Santé publique / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 19e siècle; Éducation physique / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 19e siècle; Englisch; Geschichte; Literatur; Englische Literatur; Health in literature; Physical education and training in literature; Health; Literature, Modern; Physical Fitness; Santé dans la littérature; Éducation physique dans la littérature; English literature; Literature; Physical education and training; Public health; Letterkunde; Gezondheid; Engels; Kultur; Sport; Sport; Kultur
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (296p.)
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    The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas

    Health obsessed the Victorians. The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas. Bruce Haley looks at developments in personal and public health, and at theories about the relation between medical and psychological disorders. He examines influential conceptions of the healthy man: Carlyle's healthy hero, Spencer's biologically perfect man, Newman's gentleman-Christian, Kingsley's muscular Christian. He describes the development of sports and physical training in nineteenth-century England and their importance in schools and universities. He traces the concept of healthy body and healthy mind in boy's fiction (such as Torn Brown's School Days), self-help literature, and the widely read novels of George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, George Meredith, and Charles Kingsley. All these strands of social history, literature, and philosophy are woven together into a seamless whole

  7. Thomas Carlyle
    Letters to His Wife
    Autor*in: Carlyle, Thomas
    Erschienen: [1953]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  8. Existentialism
    A Theory of Man
    Autor*in: Harper, Ralph
    Erschienen: [1948]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  9. The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789–1832
  10. English Romantic Irony
    Autor*in: Mellor, Anne K.
    Erschienen: [1980]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

  11. Closer to Home
    Writers and Places in England, 1780–1830
    Autor*in: Sale, Roger
    Erschienen: [1986]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

  12. English Romanticism and the French Tradition
  13. John Ruskin or the Ambiguities of Abundance
    A Study in Social and Economic Criticism
    Erschienen: [1972]
    Verlag:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780674422940; 9780674422926
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    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature and technology / Great Britain; Littérature anglaise / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Englische Literatur; Littérature et technologie; English literature; Literature and technology; Literatur; Technik (Motiv)
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    Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context

    Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. James Clark Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context. Ruskin's eloquence and the strength of his moral, aesthetic, and social convictions established him as one of the most influential of Victorian writers. His writings, however, are not easily categorized and many of his important insights occur as digressions in discussions of other topics. Mr. Sherburne succeeds in ordering and clarifying the rich chaos of Ruskin's social thought without denying that wholeness which is, paradoxically, its salient feature. He discovers the source of Ruskin's social criticism in his early writings. He then follows Ruskin's interest as it shifts from economic theory to the problems of exploitation, war, imperialism, the means of social reform, and the construction of the welfare state. Ruskin's remarkably early vision of the possibility of economic abundance, his anticipation of its social and personal implications, his much disparaged critique of classical economics, his pioneering attention to the role of the consumer and the quality of consumption, his anxious portrayal of the effects of industrialism on the environment, his critique of English educational methods, and his farsighted proposals for public management of industry and transport are among the many aspects of Ruskin's thought examined by Mr. Sherburne. What emerges is an original and exhaustive study of a dimension of Ruskin's work which, though much neglected, is particularly relevant to contemporary concerns

  14. Darwin, Tennyson and their readers
    explorations in Victorian literature and science
    Beteiligt: Purton, Valerie (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Anthem Press, London

    'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin,... mehr

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    'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780857280824; 9780857280763
    Schlagworte: Geschichte; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Englisch; Naturwissenschaften; Literatur
    Weitere Schlagworte: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson / Baron / 1809-1892; Huxley, Aldous / 1894-1963; Wilde, Oscar / 1854-1900
    Umfang: 1 online resource (xxii, 169 pages)
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    Tennyson's Locksley Hall : progress and destitution / Roger Ebbatson -- Tennyson's drift : evolution in The Princess / Rebecca Stott -- History, materiality and type in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Matthew Rowlinson -- Darwin, Tennyson and the writing of The Holy Grail / Valerie Purton -- An undue simplification : Tennyson's evolutionary afterlife / Michiel Nys -- Like a megatherium smoking a cigar : Darwin's Beagle fossils in nineteenth-century popular culture / Gowan Dawson -- No such thing as a flower ... no such thing as a man : John Ruskin's response to Darwin / Cliver Wilmer -- Darwin and the art of paradox / George Levine -- Systems and extravagance : Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson / Gillian Beer -- T.H. Huxley, science and cultural agency / Jeff Wallace

  15. Darwin, Tennyson and their readers
    explorations in Victorian literature and science
    Beteiligt: Purton, Valerie (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Anthem Press, London

    'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin,... mehr

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    'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, Wilde and other major writers are discussed, as established scholars in this area explore the interaction between Victorian literary and scientific figures which helped build the intellectual climate of twenty-first century debates

     

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    ISBN: 9780857280824; 9780857280763
    Schlagworte: Geschichte; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Englisch; Naturwissenschaften; Literatur
    Weitere Schlagworte: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson / Baron / 1809-1892; Huxley, Aldous / 1894-1963; Wilde, Oscar / 1854-1900
    Umfang: 1 online resource (xxii, 169 pages)
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    Tennyson's Locksley Hall : progress and destitution / Roger Ebbatson -- Tennyson's drift : evolution in The Princess / Rebecca Stott -- History, materiality and type in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Matthew Rowlinson -- Darwin, Tennyson and the writing of The Holy Grail / Valerie Purton -- An undue simplification : Tennyson's evolutionary afterlife / Michiel Nys -- Like a megatherium smoking a cigar : Darwin's Beagle fossils in nineteenth-century popular culture / Gowan Dawson -- No such thing as a flower ... no such thing as a man : John Ruskin's response to Darwin / Cliver Wilmer -- Darwin and the art of paradox / George Levine -- Systems and extravagance : Darwin, Meredith, Tennyson / Gillian Beer -- T.H. Huxley, science and cultural agency / Jeff Wallace

  16. Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature
    Autor*in: Moran, Maureen
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian sensationalism through the exploration of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism, that exotic, corrupt religious Other which is... mehr

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    Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian sensationalism through the exploration of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism, that exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implacable anti-English enemy. The book demonstrates how new understandings of cultural tensions of the period are gained through the association of Roman Catholicism with secular fears of crime, sex and violence, rather than with theological ‘excesses’ and doctrinal ‘superstitions’

     

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    ISBN: 9781846312762; 9781846310706
    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Sensationalism in literature; Katholizismus <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Umfang: 1 online resource (324 pages)
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  17. Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature
    Autor*in: Moran, Maureen
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian sensationalism through the exploration of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism, that exotic, corrupt religious Other which is... mehr

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    Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian sensationalism through the exploration of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism, that exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implacable anti-English enemy. The book demonstrates how new understandings of cultural tensions of the period are gained through the association of Roman Catholicism with secular fears of crime, sex and violence, rather than with theological ‘excesses’ and doctrinal ‘superstitions’

     

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    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Sensationalism in literature; Literatur; Englisch; Katholizismus <Motiv>
    Umfang: 1 online resource (324 pages)
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  18. The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing
    Beteiligt: Peterson, Linda H. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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  19. Idleness and aesthetic consciousness, 1815-1900
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 9781108539791
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    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 112
    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Aestheticism (Literature); Aesthetics in literature; Laziness in literature; Politik; Müßiggang <Motiv>; Ästhetizismus; Romantik; Ästhetik
    Weitere Schlagworte: Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 233 Seiten)
  20. The homosexual revival of Renaissance style, 1850 - 1930
  21. The poetics of decline in British Romanticism
    Autor*in: Sachs, Jonathan
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 9781108333115
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    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 118
    Schlagworte: English literature / 18th century / History and criticism; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Niedergang; Literatur; Romantik; Englisch
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 Seiten)
  22. Victorian skin
    surface, self, history
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    "A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it... mehr

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    "A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface The self as surface -- Permeability : out and in -- Alienated and alienating -- Inscriptions

     

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  23. Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
    Volume 5
    Autor*in: Plain, Gill
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 9780748631513; 0748631518; 0748627448; 9780748627448; 9781306117746; 1306117747
    Schriftenreihe: Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain
    Schlagworte: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; English literature; Englisch; Literatur
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index

    Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Chapter One Introduction; I War; Chapter Two Documenting; Chapter Three Desiring; Chapter Four Killing; II Postwar; Chapter Five Escaping; Chapter Six Grieving; Chapter Seven Adjusting; III 'Peace'; Chapter 8 Atomising; Works Cited; Index

    This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance to, the conflict. It examines popular and middlebrow writers, as well as literary authors

  24. Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature
    Erschienen: ©2012
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    ISBN: 9780748647163; 0748647163; 9780748647156; 0748647155; 9780748672318
    Schriftenreihe: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
    Schlagworte: Adventure and adventurers in literature; Africa / Discovery and exploration; Africa / In literature; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Popular culture / History / 19th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Adventure and adventurers in literature; Discoveries in geography; English literature; Literature; Popular culture; Geschichte; Literatur; English literature; Adventure and adventurers in literature; Popular culture; Englisch; Literatur; Afrika <Motiv>
    Umfang: viii, 237 pages
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Militibus Christi -- Behind the Black Velvet curtain -- Preaching to the nerves

    "Although nineteenth-century map-makers imposed topographic definition upon a perceived geographical void, writers of Adventure fiction, and other colonial writers, continued to nourish the idea of a cartographic absence in their work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siècle literature, and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. The chapters examine: representations of Black Africa in missionary writing and Rider Haggard's narratives on Africa; cartographic tradition in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and mesmeric fiction, such as Richard Marsh's The Beetle, Robert Buchanan's The Charlatan and George du Maurier's Trilby. As Robbie McLaughlan demonstrates, it was the late Victorian 'best-seller' which merged an arcane Central African imagery with an interest in psychic phenomena."--Publisher's website

  25. The shadow of death
    literature, romanticism, and the subject of punishment