Victorian Sacrifice Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Colonial Kenya observed : British rule, Mau Mau and the wind of change / by Fazan, S. H., 1888-1979

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Colonial Kenya observed : British rule, Mau Mau and the wind of change / by Fazan, S. H., 1888-1979

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Managing cultural change in public libraries : Marx, Maslow, and management / by Pateman, John, 1956-, Pateman, Joe

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Managing cultural change in public libraries : Marx, Maslow, and management / by Pateman, John, 1956-, Pateman, Joe

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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy the making of GKC, 1874-1908 / by Oddie, William

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Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy the making of GKC, 1874-1908 / by Oddie, William

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Byron, Hunt, and the politics of literary engagement / by Steier, Michael

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Byron, Hunt, and the politics of literary engagement / by Steier, Michael

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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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On the fringes of diplomacy influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Otte -- Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton -- The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best -- Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein -- "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher -- Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion -- The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best -- Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson -- "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson -- "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.…”
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On the fringes of diplomacy influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Otte -- Services rendered : Arminius Vambéry and British diplomacy / Keith Hamilton -- The double agent's tale : Vincent Kraft and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1915-18 / Antony Best -- Writers, the clergy, and the "diplomatization" of culture : sub-structures of Anglo-American diplomacy, 1820-1914 / Melanie Hall and Erik Goldstein -- "An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip" : Walter Burton Harris / John Fisher -- Gunboats, independence movements and war : three incidents involving missionaries on the fringes of diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hamish Ion -- The cultural diplomacy of Sir James Rennell Rodd / Saho Matsumoto-Best -- Diplomatic light and shade : Sir Eric Phipps and Anglo-French relations, 1922-1928 / Gaynor Johnson -- "An excellent conning-tower" : John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy / Keith Neilson -- "Miserably kept running in low gear" : Lord Lloyd at the periphery of politics and diplomacy, 1930 to 1940 / Louise Atherton.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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Bloomsbury Scientists : Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin by Boulter, Michael

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Bloomsbury Scientists : Science and Art in the Wake of Darwin by Boulter, Michael

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