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  • Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past

    Memory, History, Fiction

    by Helen Kingstone ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these parallel genres responded to ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Seeing the Big Picture

    by Helen Kingstone ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation. Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present moment, but ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects

    Edited by Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia.This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their materiality, and ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Law Express Question and Answer: Medical Law

    by Michelle Robson, Kristina Swift, Carolyn Fyall, Helen Kingston ...
    Series series Law Express Questions & Answers

    $16.99 CAD

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    Peter Pan

    Brought to life by magical storytellers

    by J M Barrie ...
    Narrated by Kit Harrington, David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Morpurgo, Juliet Stevenson, Martin Jarvis, Alex Jennings, Alex Kingston, Helen McCrory, Zoe Wanamaker ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    When Peter Pan flies through the Darling Children's nursery window one night, he is nearly captured and makes a hasty escape, leaving behind his shadow. Returning with the fairy Tinker Bell to reclaim it, he wakes up Wendy, John and Michael, and whisks them away to the magical shores of Neverland.There they meet the Lost Boys, befriend Tiger Lily and her Braves, swim with the mermaids in the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Studying Generations

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    by Ali Somers, Matthew Hall, Tatjana Buklijas, Ben Little, Alison Winch, Andrew King, Nigel Williams, David Amigoni ...
    Series series Generations, Transitions and Social Change
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The concept of ‘generations’ has become a widely discussed area, with recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic revealing our dependence on intergenerational relationships both within and beyond the family. However, the concept can often be misunderstood, which can fuel divisions between age groups rather than generating solutions.This ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Victorian Literature and Culture

    by Maureen Moran ...
    Series series Introductions to British Literature and Culture
    This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy - major writers and genres including the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Thackeray, Conan Doyle, Ibsen, Shaw, Hopkins, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    by Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

    Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

    by Hannah Cooke ...
    This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.•A user-friendly ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD