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Free Download Elaine Freedgood, "Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World"
English | 2000 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0521781086, 0521028728 | PDF | 0,9 mb
In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and places. Women, men, the laboring and middle classes, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities that allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places.

Free Download Brenda Ayres, "The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels "
English | ISBN: 103283062X | 2025 | 24 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 7 MB
Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order,conventionality, and conformity, there were many Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores and sometimes the laws themselves, in a variety of ways and to varying degrees. Some expressed dissension through music, art, literature, and social protest. Others were more subtle like manipulative wives who gained what they wanted while seemingly remaining docile and submissive. Some rebellion fermented into social and political movements. The revolt of still others was extremely executed by serial killers, criminals, and suicides. Contemporary readers can learn from these rebels and discern what values and ways that were uniquely Victorian should be retained and those that should be rejected after having observed their outcomes. To that end, this collection of essays offers a study for both novice and expert on Victorian rebels.

Free Download Dr. Grymm, Barbe Saint John, "1,000 Steampunk Creations: Neo-Victorian Fashion, Gear, and Art"
English | 2011 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1592536913 | PDF | 140,7 mb
Steampunk is a burgeoning counter-cultural movement; a genre, community, and artform. The Steampunk movement seeks to recapture the spirit of invention, adventure, and craftsmanship reminiscent of early-nineteenth-century industrialization, in part to restore a sense of wonder to a technology-jaded world.

Free Download Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability: Interdisciplinary Interventions
by Louise Logan-Smith
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031760913 | 212 Pages | True PDF | 7 MB

Free Download Louise A. Jackson, "Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England"
English | 1999 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 041522649X | PDF | 4,5 mb
Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Free Download Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life by John Simons
English | August 28, 2024 | ISBN: 1743328729 | 320 pages | PDF | 4.67 Mb
"For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass."

Free Download The Brontës’ Christmas: The Festive Season in Victorian England edited by Maria Hubert
English | 7 Nov. 2024 | ISBN: 1803997605 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 1.8 MB
The Brontës’ Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors.

Free Download Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy through the Nineteenth Century
by A. Robin Hoffman
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0198938136 | 245 Pages | PDF | 84 MB

Free Download The Victorian Novel On File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage
by Priyanka Anne Jacob
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0198917937 | 209 Pages | PDF | 2.5 MB

Free Download William Bainbridge, "Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains: Peaks of Venice "
English | ISBN: 9462987610 | 2020 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural ‘Petit Tour’ of global significance. As they zigzagged across a debatable land between Italy and Austria, Victorians discovered a unique geography characterized by untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys. The discovery of this landscape blended aesthetic, scientific, and cultural values utterly different from those engendered by the bombastic conquests of the Western Alps achieved during the ‘Golden Age of Mountaineering’. Filtered through memories of the Venetian Grand Tour, the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites is revealed through a series of distinct cultural practices that paradigmatically define a ‘Silver Age of Mountaineering’. This book shows how these practices are more ethnographic than imperialistic, more feminine than masculine, more artistic than sportive ― rather than racing to summits, the Silver Age is about rambling, rather than conquering peaks, it is about sketching them in an intimate interaction with the Dolomite landscape.