Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century 0813942489, 9780813942483

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) 9781009296564, 9781009296540, 1009296566

Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and indiv

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Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art 9781474433716

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imaginatio

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Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture 9781474447263

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture’s contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterprise Re-imagines t

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The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907 9781474443746

Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of space Discusses a hitherto under-researched trad

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The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 9780801460838

"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives fo

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The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America 9781479820184

How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society

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Imagination Indulged: The Irrational in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 9780773592919

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The influence of mesmerism in nineteenth century American literature

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Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 9781474455039

Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fiction Offers new insights into how disability shapes plo

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American Literature. in Nineteenth-Century England 9780231877862

Examines the wide interest in American literature displayed by the English during the 19th century through a collection

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