Victorian Theatricals: From menageries to melodrama 9781408164099, 9780413744609, 9781408148389

Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 9781474290371, 9781474290364

In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and N

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Russia in Britain, 1880 to 1940: From Melodrama to Modernism 0199660867, 9780199660865

Russia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russia

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O Melodrama

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The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama 1107479592, 9781107479593

This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field

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Essays in English Literature from the Renaissance to the Victorian Age Presented to A.S.P. Woodhouse 9781487576516

The essays in this book, by English, American and Canadian scholars, constitute a spectrum of some of the most influenti

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Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community 9780773575905

In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explor

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Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen 0851704379, 0851704387

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A History of Divorce Law: Reform in England from the Victorian to Interwar Years 1000286681, 9781000286687

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce

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Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon 9780226371313

Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova

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From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England 9780773558489

Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian

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