Victorian Theatricals: From menageries to melodrama 9781408164099, 9780413744609, 9781408148389

Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 9781474290371, 9781474290364

In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and N

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Russia in Britain, 1880 to 1940: From Melodrama to Modernism 0199660867, 9780199660865

Russia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russia

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Lexicon of Global Melodrama 9783839459737

This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines,

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The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama 1107479592, 9781107479593

This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field

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Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community 9780773575905

In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explor

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Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility 9780822374046

Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature pro

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Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon 9780470022214, 0470022213

A singular description of "Earth Time" would not be helpful, as the book is really two in one. The first half

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Victorian Colonial Warfare, India : from the Conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny 9780713722550, 071372255X

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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present 9781442679030

The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings

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From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England 9780773558489

Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian

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