Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the
ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth …

Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a
source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. Texts produced by Wells …

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The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of
the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social …

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key
issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it …

Abstract Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly
because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies …

Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the
East–centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific–in the colonial and …

Was the late nineteenth century'Victorian'or'modern'? Why did the New Woman disappear
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INCE FREUD'S publication of the paper on narcissism, analytic contributions to the subject
of the ego ideal have to a great S extent been a continuation of speculations set forth in that …

At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States
underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic …