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  • In Quest of a Cure

    Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

    by Sally Shuttleworth ...
    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 ... Read more

    $31.29 CAD

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  • North and South

    by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sally Shuttleworth ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    In Quest of a Cure

    Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort

    by Sally Shuttleworth ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 49 min

    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. ... Read more

    Was $48.99 CAD Now $41.21 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Body/Politics

    Women and the Discourses of Science

    Edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth ...
    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 ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Constructing Scientific Communities

    Edited by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham ...
    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 ... Read more

    $64.89 CAD

  • Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

    by Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham ...
    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 ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Anxious Times

    Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jennifer Wallis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $67.19 CAD

  • Two on a Tower

    by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

    Literary and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth ...
    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 ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Lorna Doone

    A Romance of Exmoor

    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    Series Book 14 - Delphi Parts Edition (R. D. Blackmore)
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  • Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War

    by Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore ...
    In the days when England trusted mainly to the vigor and valor of one man, against a world of enemies, no part of her coast was in greater peril than the fair vale of Springhaven. But lying to the west of the narrow seas, and the shouts both of menace and vigilance, the quiet little village in the tranquil valley forbore to be uneasy. For the nature of the place and race, since time has outlived ... Read more

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