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By Gail Turley Houston
May 31, 2022
This volume examines the sub-topics on the use of the metaphor of hunger to describe the condition of women as well as to a sub-topic on invisible poverty and hunger after Chartism failed. As Disraeli noted, there were still two Englands "fed by a different food."...
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By Gail Turley Houston
May 31, 2022
Capturing Dorothy Hartley’s point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply" during the Industrial Revolution, which occurred through the enclosure movement, the poor laws, the game and corn laws (qtd. in Consuming Fictions 8), this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus’s "...
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By Gail Turley Houston
May 31, 2022
In the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a massive level, causing socio-political questions that had to be addressed based on sheer necessity but little governmental experience. In an age in which ...
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By Tim Fulford
May 31, 2022
The Life of Wesley was one of Southey’s most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley – the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century – to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community. In addition, it was a major history of...
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By Katie Barclay, François Soyer
July 28, 2021
This four-volume collection of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1517 and 1914. Arranged chronologically, each volume examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture. ...
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By Valerie Sanders, Katherine Newey, Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes
November 17, 2021
This four volume collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The volumes explore the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries, and letters, drama criticism, the periodical and newspaper ...
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By John Griffiths
January 31, 2022
From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations relating to events in the history of Empire, and the construction of Empire Day in the early Edwardian period, most citizens...
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By John Griffiths
November 23, 2021
From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations relating to events in the history of Empire, and the construction of Empire Day in the early Edwardian period, most citizens...
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By Valerie Sanders
November 17, 2021
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of 4, explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries, and letters. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history....
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By Katherine Newey
November 17, 2021
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 2 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history....
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By Joanne Shattock
November 17, 2021
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 3 of 4 explores the subject of Authorship, Journalism and the Nineteenth-Century Press. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history....
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By Joanne Wilkes
November 17, 2021
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The final volume 4 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism written by women. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history....