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Free Download George P. Landow, "Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138796174, 113879614X | EPUB | pages: 290 | 1.6 mb
The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study demonstrates how biblical typology, an apparently arcane interpretative mode, had profound effects on the secular culture of the Victorian age: its art, literature and thought. George Landow considers the way in which the average English believer learned to read their Bible in terms of the types and shadows of Christ, the various ways in which Victorian poetry and hymns employed certain imagery, and the use of typological symbolism in narrative poetry, prose fiction, dramatic monologue and non-fiction. In a concluding chapter, he investigates the particularly complex, and often ironic, combinations of typological image and typological structure.

Free Download Oliver Lovesey, "Victorian Social Activists’ Novels Vol 1"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138765872 | EPUB | pages: 342 | 0.5 mb
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’.

Free Download Christine Bolt, "Victorian Attitudes to Race"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0415413109, 0415611423 | EPUB | pages: 249 | 0.3 mb
During the nineteenth century there emerged in England an increasingly hostile view of ethnic minorities. Dr Bolt traces, from about 1850, the changing attitudes of Victorians to ‘inferior’ races., especially on black Africans.

Free Download Peter Marsh, "The Victorian Church in Decline: Archbishop Tait and the Church of England 1868-1882"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138655899 | EPUB | pages: 362 | 1.2 mb
First published in 1969, this book studies the years of decline in the Victorian Church between 1868 and 1882. It centres on the Archbishop Tait, who was paradoxically the most powerful Archbishop of Canterbury since the seventeenth century, and follows the policies he pursued, the high church opposition it provoked and the involvement of Parliament.

Free Download Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman, "Post Victorian Britain, 1902-1951"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0416697607, 0415039940, 113843244X | EPUB | pages: 576 | 2.9 mb
This comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the twentieth century has three main themes: the political and social consequences of the replacement of the Liberal Party by the Labour Party; the continuous development of the welfare state; and the changes in Englandâ s imperial and international position caused by the ambitions of Germany and Japan and by the emergence of the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R as world powers. The leading personalities of the period are brilliantly portrayed and the issues challengingly presently.

Free Download Dennis Grube, "At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1350160210, 1780763441 | EPUB | pages: 234 | 0.7 mb
Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, yet not all Britons were seen as possessing the characteristics that defined what it actually meant to be ‘British.’ At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted ‘others’ in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and Jews, atheists, prostitutes and homosexuals. In this groundbreaking study, Dennis Grube details the laws and conventions that were legally and culturally enforced in order to bar these ‘others’ from gaining power and influence in Victorian Britain. Utilising a wide-ranging analysis, the book focuses on key case studies including the anti-Semitism implicit in Lord Rothschild’s barring from the House of Commons, the fine line between accepted male love and companionship and homosexuality, culminating in the Oscar Wilde trials of the 1890s, and how laws against disease were used to police prostitutes and correct moral vices. As Jews, Roman Catholics and atheists were brought into a genuine sense of partnership in the British constitution by being allowed to seek election to Parliament, homosexuals, prostitutes and the allegedly innately criminal Irish found themselves further and more vehemently displaced as the nineteenth century progressed. ‘Otherness’ stopped being a religious question and instead became a moral one. That fundamental shift marks the moment that ‘Britishness’ became a values-based question.This will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Victorian studies, social and cultural history and constitutional identity.

Free Download Laura Monros-Gaspar, "Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology "
English | ISBN: 1472537866 | 2015 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship.

Free Download Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009100270 | 360 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata – both human and mechanical – in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders
English | February 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 1509816976 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 16.60 MB
‘Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders’ – Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning Point

Free Download Annette Federico, "Reading the Victorian Novel"
English | ISBN: 1032483091 | 2024 | 132 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.