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  • Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature
    Lesa Scholl
    Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Ro...
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    51,46 €

  • Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement
    Lesa Scholl
    Focusing on the influence of the Oxford Movement on key British poets of the nineteenth-century, this book charts their ruminations on the nature of hunger, poverty and economic injustice. Exploring the works of Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alice Meynell and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lesa Scholl examines the extent to which th...
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    55,10 €

  • Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature
    Lesa Scholl
    Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and Charlotte BrontÃ, Lesa Scholl explores how the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and intellectual want to create a dynamic, evolving notion of hunger. ...
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    82,89 €

  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
    Emily Morris / Lesa Scholl
    Building on theories of space and place, this collection examines the global reach of Elizabeth Gaskell’s influence and places her work within the narrative of British letters and narrative identity. In keeping with the theme of progress and change, the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by indu ...
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    82,73 €

  • Medicine, Health and Being Human
    Lesa Scholl
    This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected understandings of what it means to be human.  ...
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    77,18 €