Victorians – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 7

Fiona Keating

Smoke and Silk

London, 1888: Opium. Smoke. Smuggling. Murder. Pearl Fitzgerald returns to Limehouse - London's very first Chinatown - to settle her father's affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she becomes embro…

Liwen Zhang

Novel Pedagogy

Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious study? Even if the novel has shed the stigma of being mindless entertainment, one might easily assume that reading a novel is not "studying," unles…

Leslie Howsam

Eliza Orme's Ambitions

Why are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigati…

Shannon Draucker

Sounding Bodies

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Sarah Penner,

Die geheime Gesellschaft

Der neue Roman der Autorin von »Die versteckte Apotheke« - Zwei geheimnisvolle Frauen, die die Grenzen ihrer Zeit sprengen und den wohl außergewöhnlichsten Mordfall der Welt lösen 1873: In einem verlass…

Silvia Pettem

Separate Lives

Mary Rippon was a pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia. As the first female professor at the University of Colorado, she was likely the first woman in the U.S.…

Waiyee Loh

Empire of Culture

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Waiyee Loh

Empire of Culture

Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in t…

Dianne Freeman

A Newlywed's Guide to Fortune and Murder

"With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Wingate needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for …

Kathe Hicks Albrecht

The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the…

Kate Strasdin

The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of …

James Aaron Green

Sensation Fiction and Modernity

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mob…

Lizzie Pook

Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

An exciting and pacey story of a quest for justice in the macabre world of Victorian London, with an intrepid heroine ready to risk it all for her missing sister.

Sarah Penner,

Die geheime Gesellschaft

Zwei mutige Frauen auf der Suche nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit 1873: In einem verlassenen Château außerhalb von Paris lebt die Wahrsagerin Vaudeline D'Allaire. Sie ist weithin bekannt für ihr Talent für…

Kim Donovan

The Mysterious Mrs Hood

Unravel the mystery of Mrs Hood and her murder in this real-life Sherlock Holmes case... 'As atmospheric and absorbing as any murder mystery' Books By Your Bedside blog

Emilia Hart,

Die Unbändigen

Männer haben versucht sie zu zähmen - aber die Kraft der Weyward-Frauen sprengt alle Fesseln Ich bin eine Weyward und trage das Wilde in mir. KATE, 2019 Kate flieht aus London und lässt alles zurück…

Michael Collins - The Lyrical Clarinet

Michael Collins, Michael McHale

Adam Laurence Rovner

The Jew Who Would Be King

"This astonishing story of a British Jewish adventurer who made an unlikely career for himself on Africa's colonial frontier doubles as a searching inquiry into the ways that slavery, sexism, racism, and …

Big Big Train

The Underfall Yard (Remixed & Remastered)