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Dickens and the Business of Death

By: Claire Wood

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Dickens and the Business of Death

By: Claire Wood

Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316241211

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The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England

By: Claire Valente

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The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England

By: Claire Valente

Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted. In the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, ten kings faced serious rebellion, in which eight were captured, deposed, and/or murdered. One other king escaped open revolt but encountered vigorous resistance. In this book, Professor Valente argues that the crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were crucibles for change; and their examination helps us to understand medieval political culture in general and key developments in later medieval England in particular. The Theory and Practice of Revolt takes a comparative look at these crises, seeking to understand medieval ideas of proper kingship and government, the role of political violence and the changing nature of reform initiatives and the rebellions to which they led. It argues that rebellion was an accepted and to a certain extent legitimate means to restore good kingship throughout the period, but that over time it became increasingly divorced from reform aims, which were satisfied by other means, and transformed by growing lordly dominance, arrogance, and selfishness. Eventually the tradition of legitimate revolt disappeared, to be replaced by both parliament and dynastic civil war. Thus, on the one hand, development of parliament, itself an outgrowth of political crises, reduced the need for and legitimacy of crisis reform. On the other hand, when crises did arise, the idea and practice of the community of the realm, so vibrant in the thirteenth century, broke down under the pressures of new political and socio-economic realities. By exploring violence and ideas of government over a longer period than is normally the case, this work attempts to understand medieval conceptions on their own terms rather than with regard to modern assumptions and to use comparison as a means of explaining events, ideas, and developments.

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Routledge

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135188123X

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The Path

Trusting God and Loving People

By: Claire Moye

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The Path

Trusting God and Loving People

By: Claire Moye

Unfortunately, Christians have a reputation to face. We can be some of the most hurtful and judgmental people in America, all in the pursuit of trusting God and loving people! We think we are doing the right thing, the godly thing, when in reality many of us are either stomping on our brothers and pushing people away from Jesus, or were burned out people-pleasers who allow ourselves to be used or abused in the name of Jesus. This study is designed to help you examine the beliefs and preconceived assumptions you have about your Christian life (that you dont even know are there) so that you can trust God and love people without wounding them, or yourself, in the process.

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WestBow Press

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1973606518

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Male Infertility - Men Talking

By: Mary-Claire Mason

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Male Infertility - Men Talking

By: Mary-Claire Mason

How do men react to diagnosis of male infertility and how, if at all, are all their lives affected by it? Male infertility is commonplace yet the male experience of it has been woefully neglected. Male Infertility - Men Talking explores these issues by gathering together men's stories and seeing what common strands, if any, exist between them. Mary-Claire Mason explores the past and present medical management of male infertility as this forms an essential backdrop to the men's stories but the main emphasis is on how men's lives are affected. In the first half of this book the discovery of sperm and the man's role in reproduction is considered together with a review of how the past affects the present medical management of male infertility and the problems that bedevil it. The male voice predominates in the second painful events and relationships with families and friends, their feeling of isolation, their medical experiences, the importance of biological fatherhood, and their hopes for the future.

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1134907230

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Counter-terrorism and the Detention of Suspected Terrorists

Preventive Detention and International Human Rights Law

By: Claire Macken

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Counter-terrorism and the Detention of Suspected Terrorists

Preventive Detention and International Human Rights Law

By: Claire Macken

In a regional, national and global response to terrorism, the emphasis necessarily lies on preventing the next terrorist act. Yet, with prevention comes prediction: the need to identify and detain those considered likely to engage in a terrorist act in the future. The detention of ‘suspected terrorists’ is intended, therefore, to thwart a potential terrorist act recognising that retrospective action is of no consequence given the severity of terrorist crime. Although preventative steps against those reasonably suspected to have an intention to commit a terrorist act is sound counter-terrorism policy, a law allowing arbitrary arrest and detention is not. A State must carefully enact anti-terrorism laws to ensure that preventative detention does not wrongly accuse and grossly slander an innocent person, nor allow a terrorist to evade detection. This book examines whether the preventative detention of suspected terrorists in State counter-terrorism policy is consistent with the prohibitions on arbitrary arrest and detention in international human rights law. This examination is based on the ‘principle of proportionality’; a principle underlying the prohibition on arbitrary arrest as universally protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and given effect to internationally in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and regionally in regional instruments including the European Convention on Human Rights. The book is written from a global counter-terrorism perspective, drawing particularly on examples of preventative detention from the UK, US and Australia, as well as jurisprudence from the ECHR.

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1136741860

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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

By: Claire M. L. Bourne

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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

By: Claire M. L. Bourne

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality--from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)--intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.

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Oxford University Press

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0192588532

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The Truth About Better Business Communication (Collection)

By: Natalie Canavor,Claire Meirowitz,James O'Rourke,Leigh L. Thompson

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The Truth About Better Business Communication (Collection)

By: Natalie Canavor,Claire Meirowitz,James O'Rourke,Leigh L. Thompson

150 powerful bite-size techniques for supercharging all your business communications: print, web, e-mail, and in person! Three full books of indispensable, practical advice on virtually every form of business communication! Discover how to write e-mails, reports, proposals, and web content that really pack a punch… build presentations around what people really want to know… communicate successfully in every negotiation scenario, even the most frustrating or unexpected… and much more! From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz, James O’Rourke, and Leigh Thompson

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Pearson Education

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0132655780

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9780132655781

Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

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Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

An irresistible chronological overview of daily life in the presidential residence. Divided into 42 chapters representing each succeeding administration, this survey is brimming with fun facts, tantalizing tidbits, and memorable anecdotes detailing two centuries of domestic bliss and strife in the White House. From George Washington, who chose the sight and initiated work on the presidential mansion, to Bill Clinton, whose well-documented White House escapades titillated and scandalized the nation, each individual president has contributed to the mystique of the most readily recognized home in the U.S. Together with scores of drawings, portraits, and photographs, the breezy text chronicles the significant physical, social, and emotional changes wrought by each First Family as they sought to personalize daily life in the White House.

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Psychology Press

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0415939518

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The Queen's Dumbshows

John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater

By: Claire Sponsler

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The Queen's Dumbshows

John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater

By: Claire Sponsler

No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical performances and ceremonies. This rich yet understudied body of material includes mummings for London guildsmen and sheriffs, texts for wall hangings that combined pictures and poetry, a Corpus Christi procession, and entertainments for the young Henry VI and his mother. In The Queen's Dumbshows, Sponsler reclaims these writings to reveal what they have to tell us about performance practices in the late Middle Ages. Placing theatricality at the hub of fifteenth-century British culture, she rethinks what constituted drama in the period and explores the relationship between private forms of entertainment, such as household banquets, and more overtly public forms of political theater, such as royal entries and processions. She delineates the intersection of performance with other forms of representation such as feasts, pictorial displays, and tableaux, and parses the connections between the primarily visual and aural modes of performance and the reading of literary texts written on paper or parchment. In doing so, she has written a book of signal importance to scholars of medieval literature and culture, theater history, and visual studies.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812245954

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9780812245950

Charles Dickens

A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

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Charles Dickens

A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times. From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer’s craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens’ own pen.

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0143122053

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Transparent Minds

Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

By: Dorrit Claire Cohn

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Transparent Minds

Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

By: Dorrit Claire Cohn

This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

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Princeton University Press

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0691213127

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You Never Know

By: Claire Lorrimer

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You Never Know

By: Claire Lorrimer

The incredible autobiography from Claire Lorrimer, bestselling romance novelist and daughter of 'Queen of Romance' Denise Robins. You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography, containing a graphic description of the six years she spent doing vitally secret work as a WAAF in the Fighter Command Filter Rooms in World War Two. It is the fascinating story of a life overflowing with adventure, humour, tragedy, love, joy and disasters. Claire paints vivid images of her childhood when her mother, the famous author Denise Robins, entertained pre-and post-war literati at her weekend country house parties. Armed with an old typewriter, a vivid imagination and a passion for life, Claire started writing books during the war. She has had a remarkable career and You Never Know is the intriguing story of a long and extraordinary life.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444752758

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988

By: Claire Chambers

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988

By: Claire Chambers

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

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1137315318

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The Concept of the Civilian

Legal Recognition, Adjudication and the Trials of International Criminal Justice

By: Claire Garbett

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The Concept of the Civilian

Legal Recognition, Adjudication and the Trials of International Criminal Justice

By: Claire Garbett

The Concept of the Civilian: Legal Recognition, Adjudication and the Trials of International Criminal Justice offers a critical account of the legal shaping of civilian identities by the processes of international criminal justice. It draws on a detailed case-study of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to explore two key issues central to these justice processes: first, how to understand civilians as a social and legal category of persons and second, how legal practices shape victims’ identities and redress in relation to these persons. Integrating socio-legal concepts and methodologies with insights from transitional justice scholarship, Claire Garbett traces the historical emergence of the concept of the civilian, and critically examines how the different stages of legal proceedings produce its conceptual form in distinction from that of combatants. This book shows that the very notions of civilian, protection and redress that underpin current practices of international criminal justice continue to evoke both definitional difficulties and analytic contestation. Using a unique interdisciplinary approach, the author provides a critical analysis of the relationship between mechanisms of transitional justice and civilians that will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of transitional justice, sociology, law, politics and human rights.

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1136006249

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Political Junkies

From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy

By: Claire Bond Potter

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Political Junkies

From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy

By: Claire Bond Potter

A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed -- and fractured -- American politics With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it's easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In Political Junkies, historian Claire Bond Potter shows otherwise, revealing the roots of today's dysfunction by situating online politics in a longer history of alternative political media. From independent newsletters in the 1950s to talk radio in the 1970s to cable television in the 1980s, pioneers on the left and right developed alternative media outlets that made politics more popular, and ultimately, more partisan. When campaign operatives took up e-mail, blogging, and social media, they only supercharged these trends. At a time when political engagement has never been greater and trust has never been lower, Political Junkies is essential reading for understanding how we got here.

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Basic Books

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1541645006

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The Most Explosive Science Book in the Universe...By The Brainwaves

By: Claire Watts

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The Most Explosive Science Book in the Universe...By The Brainwaves

By: Claire Watts

Get set for a stupendous survey of the dazzlingly dramatic science that makes you, the world and the whole Universe Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief-makers who are about to take your child on a spectacular scientific adventure; from the bubble, fizz and bang behind chemistry to the brute force of physics. The Brainwaves will shrink down to atomic level to explore the most basic building blocks of science; examine light, sound and heat waves; and prepare for some shocking revelations about electricity. With fantastic pages packed with amazing phenomena to learn about - from radio waves to nanotechnology, - timelines, fabulous facts and things to find, your child will discover everything they ever wanted to know about science!

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0756655579

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America's Philosopher

John Locke in American Intellectual Life

By: Claire Rydell Arcenas

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America's Philosopher

John Locke in American Intellectual Life

By: Claire Rydell Arcenas

America’s Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge itself. Claire Rydell Arcenas’s new book tells the story of Americans’ longstanding yet ever-mutable obsession with this English thinker’s ideas, a saga whose most recent manifestations have found the so-called Father of Liberalism held up as a right-wing icon. The first book to detail Locke’s trans-Atlantic influence from the eighteenth century until today, America’s Philosopher shows how and why interpretations of his ideas have captivated Americans in ways few other philosophers—from any nation—ever have. As Arcenas makes clear, each generation has essentially remade Locke in its own image, taking inspiration and transmuting his ideas to suit the needs of the particular historical moment. Drawing from a host of vernacular sources to illuminate Locke’s often contradictory impact on American daily and intellectual life from before the Revolutionary War to the present, Arcenas delivers a pathbreaking work in the history of ideas.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820416

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9780226820415

Great American Anecdotes

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

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Great American Anecdotes

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

Collection of ancedotes by famous Americans from Oliver Stone to Oliver North, from Harry Truman to Truman Capote over the past five decades.

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William Morrow

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0688094732

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Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees

Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History

By: Claire A. Kirchhoff

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Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees

Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History

By: Claire A. Kirchhoff

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample. This is of particular interest to both primatologists and skeletal analysts who have benefited from published data on a smaller, earlier skeletal sample from Gombe. The Gombe skeletal collection is the largest collection of wild chimpanzees with known life histories in existence, and this work significantly expands the skeletal sample from this long-term research site (49 chimpanzees). The book explores topics of general interest to skeletal analysts such as demographic patterns, which injuries leave signs on the skeleton, and rates of healing, and discusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the patterning of lesions. The book presents the data in a narrative style similar to that employed in Dr. Goodall’s seminal work The Chimpanzees of Gombe. Readers already familiar with the Gombe chimpanzees are likely to appreciate summaries of life events correlated to observable skeletal features. The book is especially relevant at this time to remind primate conservationists of the importance of the isolated chimpanzee population at Gombe National Park as well as the availability of the skeletons for study, both within the park itself as well as at the University of Minnesota.

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Springer

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3030183556

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040251277

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