The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bronte novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame.
Popular Book Publishing in Late-Victorian & Edwardian Britain
Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a `mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?
Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?
Two artistic and literary worlds, in the work of Gerard Keenan
This significant new work casts a light on the understanding of the literary networks 20th Century Ireland, particularly between Dublin and Belfast. It brings to light, the creative writing of Gerard Keenan - better known as `Jude the Obscure', writing for the influential Northern Irish periodical The Honest Ulsterman.
This new book is about animals and the role they played in nineteenth-century social reform. More specifically, it is about how popular interests in zoology and changing attitudes toward animals at this time figured in the rhetoric surrounding sanitary debates. But it is also concerned with how literature actively participated in social change...
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice offers analysis of who were the very rich, and how did this change over the past 250 years? How did the rich respond to the poor during the nineteenth century? How did the rich class contract, due to high taxation, between about 1920 and 1965? Why are levels of wealth reaching unprecedented figures today?
This revelatory and often startling book is the most unusual insider-story about book publishing ever issued. / It pivots on the enormous changes in publishing, its culture and politics over four tumultuous decades since the 1970s. / The book does so in providing a detailed blow-by-blow account of the author's struggles over the eventual ......
This well-illustrated work by a distinguished social historian narrates the epic of the great age of railway history and development. It sets this in the context of the social history and its contemporary impact on society as a whole.
