Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Ishmael
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Lost for Love
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Strangers and Pilgrims
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Worlds Beyond
Author: Laura Forsberg
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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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: 0300233817
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.
One Thing Needful
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Like and Unlike
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Asphodel
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Run to Earth
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Wyllard's Weird
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Story of Barbara
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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