'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books


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This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.




Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century


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The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics.







Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic


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Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books




The Nile Boat


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The Pilgrim Fathers


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AB Bookman's Weekly


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Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture


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This book explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. It traces an alternative history of Romantic authorship, one that lies on the cusp between a vanishing manuscript culture and the dominance of print, grappling with an evolving tension between the private and public spheres.




The Examiner


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