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  • North and South

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social ... Leer más

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  • In Quest of a Cure

    Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

    People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English Colonies' sprung up, not in the far-reaches of the Empire, but in health resorts in the heart of Europe. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed ... Leer más

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  • Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Constructing Scientific Communities

    Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they ... Leer más

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  • Lorna Doone

    A Romance of Exmoor

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of "Doone"' John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone ... Leer más

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  • Anxious Times

    Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Series series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought ... Leer más

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  • Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious ... Leer más

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  • Body/Politics

    Women and the Discourses of Science

    Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "female" maladies and the debates surrounding them. In the process it makes an important attempt to remedy ... Leer más

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  • Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

    Literary and Cultural Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature, history and science the authors explore the theme of memory as a tool of social progression. This book offers a fresh theoretical understanding of the period and a wealth of empirical material of use ... Leer más

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  • Two on a Tower

    TWO ON A TOWER (1882) is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery ... Leer más

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    In Quest of a Cure

    Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

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    People have always traveled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed by illness, but where patients (before the rise of the sanatorium) could move around freely, and even indulge in winter sports. ... Leer más

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    A Romance of Surrey

    Series Libro 2 - R. D. Blackmore Collection
    Dariel: A romance of Surrey is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. Dariel was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death. ... Leer más

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  • Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War

    The story is set in the 17th century during the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in England and revolves around the lives of the inhabitants of Springhaven, a coastal village in Devon. The narrative follows various characters, their romances, conflicts, and their involvement in the rebellion, depicting the impact of historical events on their lives.R. D. Blackmore, celebrated for his descriptive and ... Leer más

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