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Tag: 19th century

Language and Literature

Q&A with the editors of Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 24, 20218 min read139 Views

by Elizabeth Amann & Michael Boyden 1. How did this book come about? Michael: This collected volume came out of a…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

posted by Teri Williams January 5, 20215 min read205 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a…

Cultural Studies

Writing Letters, Writing Lives: Dash & Lily and Born in Exile

posted by Teri Williams November 30, 20208 min read224 Views

By Tom Ue Dash & Lily (2020-), Netflix’s charming new adaptation of Rachel Cohn’s and David Levithan’s popular YA series…

Cultural Studies

Feeling Flat: London Housing in Times of Change and Crisis (part 2)

posted by Kirsty Crosbie September 9, 20208 min read165 Views

Thanksgiving Model Buildings An article published in The Lady’s Newspaper in 1851 makes an explicit connection between creative production –…

Cultural Studies

Feeling Flat: London Housing in Times of Change and Crisis

posted by Kirsty Crosbie September 8, 20205 min read322 Views

If she were earning a living wage, the amount of time it would take to purchase the flat – only 393 square feet in size – would require 21, 874 hours of labour. In so many hours, Morison estimated, a person could read the bible 309.54 times, gestate 3.26 babies, or complete 2.48 lifetimes worth of pub visits.

British History

Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin

posted by Teri Williams August 25, 20205 min read217 Views

By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative…

1751 Map of Asia
Ancient History

Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA April 29, 20208 min read725 Views

Read the blog post to find out more about writing the newly published book Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Language and Literature

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-2017

posted by Teri Williams October 16, 20175 min read2143 Views

By Robert Morrison An extract from Romanticism, Volume 23.3, October 2017 1817 was a remarkable year for British Romanticism John…

Cultural Studies

John M. MacKenzie on ‘Bogeys’ Past and Present

posted by Teri Williams September 12, 201715 min read1762 Views

It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…

History

Richard Owen: an overlooked parasitologist

posted by Teri Williams April 12, 20172 min read1722 Views

Who was Richard Owen? Richard Owen (1804–1892) is one of the most important British biologists of the nineteenth century. He…

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