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  • Teaching William Morris

    A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so ... Leer más

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  • Economic Woman

    Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy

    The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism.Economic Woman is the first ... Leer más

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  • Ruskin After 200

    Thinking with Ruskin in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and industrialization’s toll on the environment. Two hundred years after Ruskin’s birth, his relevance to art, literature, history, architecture, ... Leer más

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  • After Darwin

    Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edición de Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel ...
    Series series After Series
    Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions ... Leer más

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    Series Libro 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
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  • An Urchin in the Storm

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