Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
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The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites,...
The Arts and Crafts Garden
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The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter...
A Song of their Own: The Fight for Votes for Women in Ipswich
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What did women from the Ipswich area have to do with getting the vote? Surely it was only in London...
The Vulcan Foundry: 150 Years of Engineering
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Founded by the great Robert Stephenson in the 1830s as a factory to produce locomotives for the...
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It...
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater
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Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history and philosophy,...
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
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In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man...
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
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This book reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and...
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell, Peter Davison and Richard Hoggart
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A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial...
Topics About Which I Know Nothing
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Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain - this...