Search Results - "InSight"

Sight unseen whiteness and American visual culture / by Berger, Martin A.

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Sight unseen how Frémont's first expedition changed the American landscape / by Menard, Andrew, 1948-

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Second sight the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / by Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-

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Lincoln and the politics of Christian love by Havers, Grant N., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The demanding politics of charity -- The concept of charity before Lincoln -- "With charity for all" : Lincoln raises the sights -- Charity and "we, the people" -- Natural right, charity, and political realism -- Charity and chosenness -- Conclusion : the future past of a charitable politics.…”
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Primitive Minds Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Come buy, come buy shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / by Lysack, Krista

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.…”
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American painting of the nineteenth century realism, idealism, and the American experience / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Lane : a paradigm of luminism -- Martin Johnson Heade : haystacks and light -- William Sidney Mount : monumental genre -- George Caleb Bingham : Missouri classicism -- Winslow Homer : concept and percept -- Thomas Eakins : science and sight -- Albert Pinkham Ryder : even with a thought -- William Harnett : every object rightly seen -- The painterly mode in America -- Epilogue : the twentieth century.…”
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Afterimage of empire photography in nineteenth-century India / by Chaudhary, Zahid R.

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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