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Decadent Verse
An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900
Edited by Caroline Blyth
A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313021
February 2009
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£175.00 / $175.00A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
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Govind Narayan’s Mumbai
An Urban Biography from 1863
Edited and translated by Murali Ranganathan
foreword by Gyan PrakashThe first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312772
March 2008
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£115.00 / $115.00The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.
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Spies in the Empire
Victorian Military Intelligence
Stephen Wade
Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843312628
July 2007
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£18.99 / $18.99Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.
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Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy
An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Brigid Lowe
This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312338
March 2007
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£115.00 / $115.00This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
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Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Filling the Blank Spaces
Edited by Tim Youngs
An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312185
September 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
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Repositioning Victorian Sciences
Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking
Edited by David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick, Martin Willis
An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312123
May 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
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Colonial Childhoods
The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945
Satadru Sen
An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311775
August 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.
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Unmapped Countries
Biological Visions in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
Edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein
An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311591
March 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.
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Elegy for an Age
The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature
John D. Rosenberg
A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311560
February 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.
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John Keble in Context
Edited by Kirstie Blair
A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311461
November 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble’s work for several decades.
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Outsiders Looking In
The Rossettis Then and Now
Edited by David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon
A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311058
January 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
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Unsettled Accounts
Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing
Simon J. James
Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311072
December 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00Gissing’s work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money’s underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.
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Victorian Sensation
Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Michael Diamond
A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310761
August 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
Bharat Tandon
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311010
March 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen’s work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.