The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

Author: Henry Kingsley

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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We had sat silent for some time, too lazy to speak, almost to think. The beautiful flower-garden which lay before us, sloping towards the river, looked rather brown and serene, after the hot winds, although the orange-trees were still green enough, and vast clusters of purple grapes were ripening rapidly among the yellowing vine-leaves. On the whole, however, the garden was but a poor subject of contemplation for one who remembered it in all its full November beauty, and so my eye traveled away to the left, to a broad paddock of yellow grass which bounded the garden on that side, and there I watched an old horse feeding.

The Language of Postcolonial Literatures
The Language of Postcolonial Literatures

Author: Ismail S. Talib

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780415240185

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Exploring literatures from a range of countries this book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.

A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform

Author: Ian Ward

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1350079324

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The Age of Reform – the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a deeply conservative and cautious one. With reform came reaction and revolution and this was as true of the law as it was of literature, art and technology. The age of Great Exhibitions and Great Reform Acts was also the age of newly systemized police forces, courts and prisons. A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents an overview of the period with a focus on human stories located in the crush between legal formality and social reform: the newly uniformed police, criminal mugshots, judge and jury, the shame of child labor, and the need for neighborliness in the crowded urban and increasingly industrial landscapes of Europe and the United States. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

Author: John Sutherland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 1317863321

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With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.