Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The silver fork novel The silver fork novel Edward Copeland "In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, … OL16592089W
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 Leonardo Buonomo This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach,… OL16815228W
The Gothic other The Gothic other Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard x, 310 p. ; 23 cm OL18246645W
Imperial Masochism Imperial Masochism John Kucich "In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Pl… OL3472497W
Romancing Romancing Jeremy Treglown "Henry Green led a double life. As Henry Yorke, a descendant of the earl of Hardwicke and Baron Leconfield, he was a wealthy aristocrat, with a family fortune and an engineering plant in the British … OL3536598W
The syntax of class The syntax of class Amy Schrager Lang "The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native lang… OL5263414W
George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity Brenda McKay This work is a broadly focussed & intensively researched study of the multifarious ways in which the Victorians looked at discourses on race & how these affected people's daily lives: Slavery, 19th-c… OL6036686W
Dramatic difference Dramatic difference Karen Raber "Dramatic Difference explores closet drama's unique and dynamic position in early modern culture. Intellectually, geographically, and ideologically removed from the public spaces of the theater, clos… OL6210912W