Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obses
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In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects pr
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The discipline of rhetoric—adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman,
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This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian
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Tales of Victorian man-made failures, follies and disasters which were forgotten or swept under the carpet at the time.
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Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and
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In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how Fernando de Rojas' 1499 novel str
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We cannot talk about realism in the nineteenth century without talking about visuality, claims Green-Lewis, and Framing
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This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed
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