Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (Golding Rosemary)(Pevná vazba)

Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (Golding Rosemary)(Pevná vazba)

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the debates around moral

Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century (Sheehan-Dean Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

Spain in the Nineteenth Century: New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society (Ginger Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Todd David)(Pevná vazba)

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global

Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery (Barnett Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as 'a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science'; yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benefited from a revolution in scientific progress and

Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain (Fenn Violet)(Pevná vazba)

Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often

Justice and mercy: Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England (Byrne Philippa)(Pevná vazba)

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to explore how moralists approached questions of judgement and judicial ethics in the foundational period of English common

Fathers in Victorian Fiction (McKnight Natalie)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and

Women against cruelty: Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain (Donald Diana)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century

Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon (Breimaier Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

'Tethered to the cross' is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) described the task of ministry and his approach to preaching. For nearly four decades, Spurgeon served as the pastor of the church at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. But

Poems (Byron George Gordon)(Pevná vazba)

Byron's poetry took Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century and the poems which made him a star are here represented by a selection of the early lyrics, including still popular pieces such as 'She walks in beauty' and 'We'll go a no more

Projecting Imperial Power: New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere (Watanabe-O'Kelly Helen)(Pevná vazba)

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804 through Agust�n and Pedro, the emperors of Mexico and Brazil in 1822 to Victoria, empress of India in 1876. Monarchs such as Napoleon III, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm I

Gender and Early Television: Mapping Women's Role in Emerging Us and British Media, 1850-1950 (Arnold Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. In Gender and Early Television, Sarah Arnold traces women's relationship to the new medium of television across this period in the UK and USA. She argues that women played a crucial

Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930 (Schaffner A.)(Pevná vazba)

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary

Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Leckie Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform

Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture (Bickford Tyler)(Pevná vazba)

In the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the 'tween' music industry, showing how it marshaled

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the Us-Mexican Border and Beyond (Washington John)(Pevná vazba)

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning--that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. 'It was like a bomb exploded

Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia (Engel Mary Ella)(Pevná vazba)

Railways (Valkoinen Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the first railway was established in Great Britain, contributing to the country's dramatic social and economic revolution. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages, wagons, stations, bridges, and tunnels to facilitate the manufacturing

Oscar and Lucinda - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey Peter)(Pevná vazba)

OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board

Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science (Coombs David Sweeney)(Pevná vazba)

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney

Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners (Sayers John G.)(Pevná vazba)

In the heyday of ocean travel--between the late nineteenth century and World War II--ocean liners were a home away from home. Passengers prepared for voyages that could last as long as three months, and shipping companies ensured their guests were as comfortable as possible, providing

Foreigner (Sennett Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges into this vibrant, anxious world to recreate the experiences of Herzen and his