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Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: M. Finn
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-30 - Publisher: Springer

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This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Bri
The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Joshua Gooch
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-13 - Publisher: Springer

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This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of th
Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: M. Damkjær
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: Springer

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This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as w
Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Jan-Melissa Schramm
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the tensions raised by ideas of sacrifice in literature at a time of significant legal and theological change.
Novel Politics
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Isobel Armstrong
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideol