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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…

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and pract…

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…

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 …

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist

This volume collects writing by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an abolitionist, suffragist, one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America, and the first Black woman to enroll in law scho…

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…

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)

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the ni…

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the ni…

Dane Kennedy

Mungo Park's Ghost

In 1816 the British sent two large, ambitious expeditions to Africa, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. Their shared goal was to complete the un…

Kirsten Madden, Joseph Persky

Building a Social Science

The Industrial Revolution offered promises of material abundance. In nineteenth century Britain, a series of major cooperative thinkers seized on these possibilities. In effect, they turned the mainstream…

Richard Hornsey

The Many-Sidedness of George Minchin Minchin

This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (1845-1914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College. Minchin s extraordinary range of accomplishments …

Zoë Laidlaw

Protecting the Empire's Humanity

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in 'protecting' and 'civilizing' indigenous peoples…

W. Walker Hanlon

The Laissez-Faire Experiment

Why Britain's attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern worldIn the nineteenth century, as Britain attained a leading economic and political position in Europe, B…

Barbara Korte

Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900

This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s…