Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science, Pratt-Smith
Автор: Pratt-Smith, Stella Название: Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science ISBN: 0367880032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367880033 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Engaging with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading mid-century novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. She
Автор: Foerster Maxime Название: The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature ISBN: 1512601705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512601701 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 41380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Convincingly shows how heterosexual couples as depicted in nineteenth-century French literature challenged traditional norms of both gender and sexuality
Автор: Tredennick Bianca Название: Victorian Transformations: Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature ISBN: 1409411877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409411871 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and created change. It focuses on literature, particularly issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire.
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connections among such diverse fields as scientific lecturing, laboratory research, telegraphic communication, industrial electroplating, patent conventions, and innovative medical therapies, Morus also shows how electrical culture was integrated into a new machine-dominated, consumer society. He sees the history of science as part of the history of production, and emphasizes the labor and material resources needed to make electricity work.
Frankenstein's Children explains that Faraday, with his colleagues at the Royal Society and the Royal Institution, looked at science as the province of a highly trained elite, who presented their abstract picture of nature only to select groups. The book contrasts Faraday's views with those of other practitioners, to whom science was a practical, skill-based activity open to all. In venues such as the Galleries of Practical Science, electrical phenomena were presented to a public less distinguished but no less enthusiastic and curious than Faraday's audiences. William Sturgeon, for instance, emphasized building apparatus and exhibiting electrical phenomena, while chemists, instrument-makers, and popular lecturers supported the London Electrical Society. These previously little studied electricians contributed much to the birth of Frankenstein's children--the not completely benign effects of electricity on a new consumer world.
Originally published in 1998.
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Автор: Cristopher Hollingsworth Название: Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century ISBN: 1609385136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609385132 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll`s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll`s 19th-century story on the high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.
Автор: Gordon Rae Beth Название: Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature ISBN: 0691606331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606330 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality.
Автор: Pinch Название: Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing ISBN: 1107650763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107650763 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book links literary works to psychological and philosophical beliefs of the Victorian era, by demonstrating a common concern among poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, and devotees of the occult with the question of whether thinking about someone can cause something to happen to them.
Автор: Marrs Название: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War ISBN: 1107109833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107109834 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.
Автор: Mancoff Debra N., Trela D. J. Название: Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts ISBN: 1138864269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138864269 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Автор: Davis Mike Название: Reading the Text That Isn`t There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel ISBN: 1138011673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138011670 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 57150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
Автор: Wagner Tamara S. Название: Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature ISBN: 113866443X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138664432 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as `girl Crusoes` in works of fiction.
This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights how, in the wake of American independence, the affection bestowed on authors who became international objects of celebration and commemoration was a major force in the invention of transnational ‘English’ literature, the popular canon defined by shared language and tradition. While love as such is difficult to quantify and recover, the records of such affection survive not just in print, but also in other media: in monuments, in architecture, and in the ephemera of material culture. Thus, this collection brings into view a wide range of nineteenth-century expressions of love for literature and its creators.
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