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The English Catalogue of Books, 1835/1863-1951
Author: The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Victorian Sensation
Author: James A. SecordPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615825X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 645
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Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary
Author: R. SteinitzPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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America and the Americans in 1833-4, by an Emigrant
Author: Richard GoochPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823215942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Gooch was a storyteller, poet, and perceptive social observer living in Georgian and early Victorian England. His previously unpublished, satirical account of his purported travels in America (focusing on New York City) was discovered by editor Richard Widdicombe. Widdicombe includes in this volume a short biography of Gooch, extensive textual and historical notes and an essay on Anglo-American travel literature. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
