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Roland Jackson

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

Traces the Early Evolution of Britain's System of Scientific Advice

Lindsey N Chappell

Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

"This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region's centrality to Romantic and Victorian construction…

Elizabeth Ludlow,

Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

"In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through po…

Michal Salamonik

Manufacturing and Debating Coffee Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century Sweden

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the preindustrial and industrial periods by analyzing trade, cons…

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Ind…

Joseph McQueen

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen h…

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Ind…

Matthew Rowlinson

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

"Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."--

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and Ne…

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 …

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition

This Oxford Handbook celebrates the work of trailblazing women in the history of modern philosophy. Through thirty-one original chapters, it engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long n…

Melissa Rampelli

Narratives of Women¿s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Narratives of Women s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with …

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

Mary Grace Albanese

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

"This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. It redefines energy and modernity by exploring how early B…

Snait B. Gissis

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between the biological and the social . Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

Claire M. Wolnisty

A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America

A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era.

Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer (Essays by Louise Benrard de Raymond, Muriel Boulan, Thomas Christensen, Étienne Jardin, Ellen Lockhart, Fabio Morabito, William O’Hara, Alban Ramaut, Annette Richards, Michael B. Ward)

James E. Caron

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by …

Roisín Laing

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture canonical literature, children s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children to argue that precocity challenges the …