A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven t

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, incl

Exploring the Victorian fascination with the generation of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Brian Young illuminates Victorian intellectual, religious,

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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as