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Suggested Books
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An Age of Fiction: The Nineteenth Century British Novel by Call Number: 823.809 K146nISBN: 0870524291Publication Date:A critical overview of major writers of the period.
Britain in the Twentieth Century by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1136406816Publication Date:Britain in the Twentieth Century is a new approach to teaching and learning twentieth-century British history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today’s revised AS and A2 exams.
British History: – by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0191528455Publication Date:This fully revised and updated edition of Norman McCord’s authoritative introduction to nineteenth-century British history has been extended to cover the period up to the outbreak of the First World War in .The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the transformation of Britain from a predominantly rural to a largely urban society with an economy based upon manufacturing, finance, and trade, and from a society governed mainly by a landed aristocracy to what was increasingly a mass democracy.
A Companion to the Victorian Novel by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1405132914Publication Date:The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between and .
Double Jeopardy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0813163765Publication Date:Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman’s violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature.
Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists by Call Number: 823.809 Sm15gISBN: 0521191882Publication Date:This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century—ghost stories and detective stories—and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Call Number: 809 B73mISBN: 1402163029Publication Date:This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by William Heinemann, , London.
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, – by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1134240341Publication Date:The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, –, is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer by Call Number: 823.7 P799pISBN: 0226675289Publication Date:Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory.
The Second British Empire by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1442235292Publication Date:At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was actually remarkably fragile.
