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Urban disorder and the shape of belief the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / by Smith, Carl S.

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W.K. Clifford and "The ethics of belief" by Madigan, Tim

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Everyday religion : an archaeology of protestant belief and practice in the nineteenth century / by Kruczek-Aaron, Hadley

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The age of doubt tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty / by Lane, Christopher, 1966-

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"Perplext in faith" : essays on victorian beliefs and doubts /

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Islam and the Victorians nineteenth century perceptions of Muslim practices and beliefs / by Khattak, Shahin Kuli Khan

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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

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Ghosts of futures past spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / by McGarry, Molly

Table of Contents: “…Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities.…”
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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Nowell Smith -- Sordello's pristine pulpiness / Simon Jarvis -- The cadence of consent: Francis Barton Gummere, lyric rhythm, and white poetics / Virginia Jackson -- Contagious rhythm: verse as a technique of the body / Haun Saussy -- Constructing Walt Whitman: literary history and histories of rhythm / Erin Kappeler -- The rhythms of the English Dolnik / Derek Attridge -- How to find rhythm on a piece of paper / Thomas Cable -- Picturing rhythm / Meredith Martin -- Beyond meaning: differing fates of some modernist poets' investments of belief in sounds / Natalie Gerber -- Sapphic stanzas: how can we read the rhythm? …”
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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" …”
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The path of mercy the life of Catherine McAuley / by Sullivan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- James McGauley's daughter 1778-1809 -- With the Callaghans at Coolock 1809-1822 -- The bequest and its use 1823-1826 -- New sorrows and responsibilities 1827-1829 -- The house of mercy 1829-1830 -- George's Hill at fifty-two 1830-1831 -- The beginnings and cholera 1832 -- Her "first-born" 1833 -- Daily life at Baggot Street 1834 -- Beliefs and motivations -- Short steps and great strides 1835 -- The traveling begins 1836 -- Suscipe 1837 -- Resilience 1838 -- Willie McAuley and his aunt December 1838 -- Loss and friendship -- Joys and sorrows mingled 1839 -- The rule goes to Rome early 1840 -- "100 miles to meet this cross" 1840 -- "The business of our lives" early 1841 -- "Providential guidance" May-August 1841 -- "'Tis come to a close" September-November 1841 -- Epilogue -- Appendix : a note on sources.…”
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The Bosses' Union : How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal / by Hulden, Vilja, 1977-

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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age /

Table of Contents: “…Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits -- 13. The Energy of Belief: The Unseen Universe, and the Spirit of Thermodynamics.…”
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Making the White Man's West : Whiteness and the Creation of the American West / by Pierce, Jason (Jason Eric)

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CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT ON NINETEENTH CENTURY CONSERVATISM 1850-1874.

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Contemporary thought on nineteenth century conservatism.

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Contemporary thought on Nineteenth Century Conservatism.

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The master and the dean the literary criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells / by Davidson, Rob, 1967-

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