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Cannonbridge
Paperback. English.
Published
Twickenham: Solaris, 2015
Matthew Cannonbridge was the most influential mind of the 19th century - a novelist, playwright, the poet of his generation. The problem is, he should...
The ruin of Sir Walter Scott
Book. English.
Published
Hart-Davis (Rupert) Ltd: [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1968
Institutions and power in nineteenth-century French literature and culture
Book. English.
Published
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011
The French Revolution of 1789 altered the face of power and the institutions it inhabited in France, and the aftershocks of this seismic change rippled...
Patrick Geddes's intellectual origins
Hardback. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020
This book situates Patrick Geddes within his own intellectual background (described by George Davie as 'the democratic intellect') and explores the relevance...
Author, author
CD. English.
Published
Leicester: W.F. Howes, 2006
The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author Henry James, surrounded by his relatives and servants, then loops back to the 1880s to chart...
The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Allen Lane, 2019
From the bestselling author of 'Natasha's Dance', 'The Europeans' is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of 19th-century Europe, told through...
Charles Darwin: Victorian mythmaker
Book. English.
Published
London: John Murray, 2017
'Charles Darwin' is much more than the account of a charming, shy, rich naturalist who lived in the reign of Queen Victoria and had many remarkable insights...
The science of life and death in Frankenstein
Hardback. English.
Published
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2021
What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate...
