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Drawing on the Victorians

The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

by Peter W. Sinnema, Christine Ferguson, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Jessica Straley, Kate Flint ...

Series series Series in Victorian Studies
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how ... Read more

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Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how
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Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

by Jessica Straley ...

Series Book 103 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat ... Read more

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Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat
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What Art Is

by Arthur C. Danto ...

What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

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What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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by Jonathan Swift ...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, Surgeon, and Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became popular ... Read more

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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, Surgeon, and Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became popular
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White Fang

by Jack London ...

“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death.”This companion to The Call of the Wild is a thrilling adventure novel written in 1906 by American author Jack London. Set in the Yukon Territory during the 1890’s Klondike Gold Rush, it follows White Fang, a mangy wolf-dog hybrid, with sharp teeth and claws to match, as he embarks on a ... Read more

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“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death.”This companion to The Call of the Wild is a thrilling adventure novel written in 1906 by American author Jack London. Set in the Yukon Territory during the 1890’s Klondike Gold Rush, it follows White Fang, a mangy wolf-dog hybrid, with sharp teeth and claws to match, as he embarks on a
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Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero

Critical Essays

Edited by Robert G. Weiner ...

For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the ... Read more

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For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the
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Beauty and the Beast

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by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve ...

'Beauty and the Beast' is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph. Late one night a merchant becomes lost in the woods and stumbles upon a seemingly deserted castle. Hungry and tired, he enters the castle and finds a feast laid out on a grand table. Finding no one else in the castle, he eats the food himself. In the morning as he leaves he finds a beautiful rose bush in the garden and ... Read more

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'Beauty and the Beast' is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph. Late one night a merchant becomes lost in the woods and stumbles upon a seemingly deserted castle. Hungry and tired, he enters the castle and finds a feast laid out on a grand table. Finding no one else in the castle, he eats the food himself. In the morning as he leaves he finds a beautiful rose bush in the garden and
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Tarzan the Terrible, Eighth Novel of the Tarzan Series

by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...

Jungle adventure, first published in 1921. According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres." ... Read more

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Jungle adventure, first published in 1921. According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres."
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Contemporary Art and Memory

Images of Recollection and Remembrance

by Joan Gibbons ...

Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Read more

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Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and
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Children's Literature

A Very Short Introduction

by Kimberley Reynolds ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl,
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149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America

(So You Can Ignore the Others)

by Julian Porter, Stephen Grant ...

Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides.This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries.Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has ... Read more

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Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides.This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries.Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has
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Blinky Bill Grows Up

by Dorothy Wall ...

Series series Blinky Bill
The Second Book in the series of 3.The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall. Wall then featured Blinky Bill in a series of her own books, including Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. The books are considered quintessential Australian children's ... Read more

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The Second Book in the series of 3.The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall. Wall then featured Blinky Bill in a series of her own books, including Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. The books are considered quintessential Australian children's
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