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Free Download The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature by Benjamin Morgan
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 022644211X, 022646220X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.7 MB
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences.

Free Download Exploring the Lives of Victorian England’s Prostitutes
by Claire Richardson;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399044648 | 186 pages | True PDF EPUB | 23.3 MB

Free Download Novel Pedagogy: The Novel and Educational Publications in Victorian Britain
by Liwen Zhang
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1438499736 | 260 Pages | PDF | 1.63 MB

Free Download Steampunk Style Jewelry: Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings by Jean Campbell
English | January 1, 2010 | ISBN: 1589234758 | 144 pages | EPUB | 38 Mb
This how-to jewelry-making book features the work of an array of invited jewelry designers influenced by the growing Steampunk trend. In Steampunk circles, jewelry-makers are often master metalsmiths who combine found objects with fine metals to create elaborate pieces. In Steampunk-Style Jewelry, the projects focus on "no fire" techniques-like simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, stitching, and off-loom beadwork-so that even a beginner can create pieces in the style. Each project provides a complete materials andtools list, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations. This book offers a broad overview of a growing design trend that is part of the literary, industrial design, fashion, and popular culture scene. Readers will learn about the art movement through the many photographic sidebars that explore the many aspects of the trend.

Free Download Steampunk Style Jewelry: Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings by Jean Campbell
English | January 1, 2010 | ISBN: 1589234758 | 144 pages | EPUB | 38 Mb
This how-to jewelry-making book features the work of an array of invited jewelry designers influenced by the growing Steampunk trend. In Steampunk circles, jewelry-makers are often master metalsmiths who combine found objects with fine metals to create elaborate pieces. In Steampunk-Style Jewelry, the projects focus on "no fire" techniques-like simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, stitching, and off-loom beadwork-so that even a beginner can create pieces in the style. Each project provides a complete materials andtools list, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations. This book offers a broad overview of a growing design trend that is part of the literary, industrial design, fashion, and popular culture scene. Readers will learn about the art movement through the many photographic sidebars that explore the many aspects of the trend.

Free Download Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian Craze for Marine Life by John Simons
English | January 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 1743328729 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 3.06 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 JoAnne Olian, "Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustrée""
English | 1997 | ISBN: 048629711X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 21.1 mb
Over 1,000 illustrations, meticulously reproduced from rare issues of renowned fashion magazine, present a striking array of women’s fashions from 1860 to 1914: elegant evening and dinner gowns, stylish daywear, wedding ensembles, bathing costumes, mourning clothes, cycling outfits and much more; plus detailed renderings of shoes, hats, parasols, and other accessories.

Free Download Barbara Korte, "Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900: Media Logic and Cultural Work"
English | ISBN: 3031641965 | 2024 | 281 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 11 MB
This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s, travel articles had become a staple of the periodicals market and reached readers who might never have travelled far themselves or bought a travel book. This monograph demonstrates that the representation of travel in Victorian periodicals came in forms and with cultural functions that differed from book publication, and that this media-specific representation helped to inscribe travel into the Victorian lifeworld. Based on a corpus of several general-interest periodicals targeted at different audiences, this book investigates how different readers – the family, women, young people and the working classes – engaged with travel. It argues that travel articles in periodicals performed significant cultural work because they accommodated readers to travel.

Free Download This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology (Audiobook)
English | November 24, 2015 | ASIN: B017Y4R1WY | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 37m | 331 MB
Author: Sarah A. Chrisman | Narrator: Laural Merlington
We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it’s spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
From Victorian beauty regimes to 19th-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore 19th-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the 21st century.

Free Download Mark C. Carnes, "Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America"
English | ISBN: 0300051468 | | 240 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias―why did millions of nineteenth-century American men belong to these and other secret orders? In this engrossing study, Mark C. Carnes argues that fraternal rituals created a fantasy world antithetical to prevailing religious practices, gender roles, and institutional structures, offering a male religious counterculture that opposed an increasingly liberal and feminized Protestantism. "[An] original and compelling study. . . . Making use of anthropology as well as social history, Carnes is probably the first outsider to take these rituals seriously. . . . Playing the role of a graceful, controlling . . . guide into these mysteries, Carnes slowly unveils his thesis, which itself has several layers of mystery."―David Leverentz, New England Quarterly "An imaginative fusion of social and intellectual history. . . . Carnes’s work shows the true depth of nineteenth-century male sexual anxiety and hostility toward women. In this compelling book, Carnes opens new approaches to the study of gender and helps us better understand the reorientation of American culture at the turn of the century." ―Donald Yacovone,