Download or read book A General Catalogue of the Books in the South Africa Public Library with a list of donors office bearers and the regulations of the institution Compiled by the Librarian Frederick Maskew written by South African Public Library (CAPETOWN) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bent s Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings Works on the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book collector s Hand book written by Edward Churton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.

Download or read book Women Writing and the Industrial Revolution written by Susan Zlotnick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries inspired deep fears and divisions throughout England. The era's emergent factory system disrupted traditional patterns and familiar ways of life. Male laborers feared the loss of meaningful work and status within their communities and families. Condemning these transformations, Britain's male writers looked longingly to an idealized past. Its women writers, however, were not so pessimistic about the future. As Susan Zlotnick argues in Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, women writers foresaw in the industrial revolution the prospect of real improvements. Zlotnick also examines the poetry and fiction produced by working-class men and women. She includes texts written by the Chartists, the largest laboring-class movement in the early nineteenth century, as well as those of the dialect tradition, the popular, commercial literature of the industrial working class after mid-century.

Download or read book Heroic Disobedience The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel 1747 1880 written by Leah Grisham and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880' shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the author terms the forced marriage plot - a plot arc in which a greedy father tries to force his daughter into a marriage she does not want but that would be financially expedient to himself - to explore capitalism’s detrimental impacts on women’s right to autonomy. As capitalist economic practices replaced mercantilism, a woman’s value was seen primarily in the economic sense. That is, men came to recognize that women – especially young, marriageable women – could be used as objects of exchange between men. Recognizing this phenomenon, the novelists considered in 'Heroic Disobedience' – Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Stone, and Anthony Trollope – depict the very specific ways in which women were raised to become willing pawns in this system. Religious discourse, conduct guides, marriage and property laws, wages, lack of meaningful education, and inheritance practices combined to leave women with no other options besides dependence on their patriarchs. Importantly, authors who use the forced marriage plot go beyond exposing women’s subjugation by creating – and celebrating – heroically disobedient heroines who believe, above all else, that they have the right to determine their own futures: futures in which they are autonomous agents, not subjected objects.

Download or read book The Quarterly Review London written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences c written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences c written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: