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Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: David McAllister
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-29 - Publisher: Springer

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This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (includi
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Language: en
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as
The Crimean War and its Afterlife
Language: en
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Authors: Lara Kriegel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better forgotten. In The Crime
Death and the Victorians
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From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to th
Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912
Language: en
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Authors: Michael Brown
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotiona