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  • Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

    par Dr Lesa Scholl ...
    Focusing questions of the soul and its relationship to the body in the context of Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, this book exploresthe ways in which medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of well-being. It intervenes in the presumed conflict between science and religion in long nineteenth-century studies by exposing the way medicine and theology ... En savoir plus

    $120.99 CAD

  • Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature

    par Dr Lesa Scholl ...
    Collections series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain.Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

    Modifié par Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth ... En savoir plus

    $1,152.99 CAD

  • Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement

    The Tractarian Social Vision

    par Dr Lesa Scholl ...
    Focusing on the influence of the Oxford Movement on key British poets of the nineteenth-century, this book charts their ruminations on the nature of hunger, poverty and economic injustice. Exploring the works of Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alice Meynell and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lesa Scholl examines the extent to which these poets – not all ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman

    Charlotte Bront�Harriet Martineau and George Eliot

    par Lesa Scholl ...
    In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Lesa Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and other conventionally derivative activities such as editing and reviewing early in their careers. In the nineteenth century, a move away from translating Greek and Latin Classical texts in ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

    par Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature

    Want, Riots, Migration

    par Lesa Scholl ...
    In Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature, Lesa Scholl explores the ways in which the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and intellectual want to create a dynamic, evolving notion of hunger. Scholl's interdisciplinary study emphasises literary analysis, sensory history, and political economy to interrogate the progression of hunger in Britain from the early 1830s ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Medicine, Health and Being Human

    Modifié par Lesa Scholl ...
    Collections series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human.With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds that incremental ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

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  • A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

    Modifié par Herbert F. Tucker ...
    Collections series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREThe Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 ... En savoir plus

    $219.99 CAD

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    par Roy Porter ...
    'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    par Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... En savoir plus

    $49.49 CAD

  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Paul Strohm ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD