Author: William Brighty Rands
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Lilliput legends, by the author of 'Lilliput levee'.
Author: William Brighty Rands
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Lilliput Legends
Author: Lilliput Legends
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Worlds Beyond
Author: Laura Forsberg
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature books that were created by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë in their youth and that, as Gaskell later recalled, “contained an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space.” Far from being singular wonders, these two-inch volumes were part of a wide array of miniature marvels that filled the drawers and pockets of middle- and upper-class Victorians. Victorian miniatures pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge, mechanical production, and human perception. To touch a miniature was to imagine what lay beyond these boundaries. In Worlds Beyond, Laura Forsberg reads major works of fiction by George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Lewis Carroll alongside minor genres like the doll narrative, fairy science tract, and thumb Bible. Forsberg guides readers through microscopic science, art history, children’s culture, and book production to show how Victorian miniatures offered scripts for expansive fantasies of worlds beyond perception.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature books that were created by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë in their youth and that, as Gaskell later recalled, “contained an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space.” Far from being singular wonders, these two-inch volumes were part of a wide array of miniature marvels that filled the drawers and pockets of middle- and upper-class Victorians. Victorian miniatures pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge, mechanical production, and human perception. To touch a miniature was to imagine what lay beyond these boundaries. In Worlds Beyond, Laura Forsberg reads major works of fiction by George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Lewis Carroll alongside minor genres like the doll narrative, fairy science tract, and thumb Bible. Forsberg guides readers through microscopic science, art history, children’s culture, and book production to show how Victorian miniatures offered scripts for expansive fantasies of worlds beyond perception.
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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The Uniform Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Lilliput Legends
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Languages : en
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Half Hours in the Far South. The People and Scenery of the Tropics. With ... Illustrations
Author: Half Hours
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Half hours in woods and wilds
Author: Half hours
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Etymological Geography ... With an Introduction by John Stuart Blackie
Author: Christina BLACKIE
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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