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Author: Ruth Nason
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780237528782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Contrasting Localities' looks at different regions around the United Kingdom, analyzing their histories, differences and futures.
Author: John D. Rosenberg
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1843313758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins. Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.
Author: Joseph Stewart Fruton
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780871691910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the various styles of leadership shown by several prominent German chemists and biochemists during the period 1830 to 1914. Featured particularly are chemists Liebig, Baeyer and Emil Fischer and biochemists Hoppe-Seyler, Kuhne and Hofmeister. In a final chapter, Fruton considers the relevance of the conclusions drawn from the style of these 19th- and early 20th-centuy men to the styles of more recent research groups in the chemical and biochemical sciences. Special emphasis is placed on their influence on their scientific progenies in Germany, and in England, Russia, and the U.S. Attention is given to the individual contributions of the junior members of these scientific groups to the growth of knowledge within their disciplines.
Author: David Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1135095558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography. Drawing on examples from cities in a number of countries, including the U.S.A., David Clark outlines the contribution of geographers to the understanding of the city and urban society, and analyses the growth of the urban environment alongside planning and policy. A thorough and unique study, this title will be of particular value to undergraduate students, as well as laying the foundations for a more advanced study in urban geography and planning.
Author: Richard Dennis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-07-17
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521338394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, that epitomised the spirit of the new age.
Author: Dr Eithne Henson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1409479072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on Brontë and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines the conventions of reading landscape, including the implied expectations of the reader, the question of the gendered narrator, how place defines the kind of action and characters in the novels, the importance of landscape in creating mood, the pastoral as a moral marker for readers, and the influence of changing aesthetic theory on the implied painterly models that the three authors reproduce in their work. She also considers how each writer defines the concept of Englishness against an internal or colonial Other. Alongside these concerns, Henson interrogates the ancient trope that equates woman with nature, and the effect of comparing women to natural objects or offering them as objects of the male gaze, typically to diminish or control them. Informed by close readings, Henson's study offers an original approach to the significances of landscape in the 'realist' nineteenth-century novel.
Author: Fiona Hutton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 131731932X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries.
Author: Peter Maw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1526130475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain’s industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the connections between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution. Focusing on Manchester, Britain’s major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city.
Author: Simons, John
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 174332586X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of ‘hippomania’, doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens almost overnight. Delving into the circumstances of Obaysch’s capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the phenomenon of ‘star’ animals in Victorian Britain against the backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Along the way, he uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew.
Author: I. Webb
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-03-29
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0230106110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, this book offers a re-reading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader.
