This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the...
This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period ...
Andrew (Head of Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester) King
Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. In this lively and compact introduction, astrophysicist Andrew King reveals how the laws of physics force stars to evolve, driving them through successive stages of maturity before their inevitable and sometimes spectacular deaths, to end as remnants such as black holes. The book shows how we know what stars are made of, how gravity forces stars like the Sun to shine by transmuting hydrogen into helium in their centers, and why this stage is so long-lived and stable. Eventually the star ends its life in one of just three ways, and much of its...
Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. In this lively and compact introduction, astrophysicist Andrew King reveals how the laws of physics ...
'Ouida, ' the pseudonym of Louise RamA(c) (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida's literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent...
'Ouida, ' the pseudonym of Louise RamA(c) (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, w...
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetyp...
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetyp...
Carolyn W de la L Oulton Andrew King Paul March-Russell
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetyp...
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetyp...
