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Free Download F. Knight, "700 Victorian Ornamental Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0486402657 | PDF | pages: 127 | 17.2 mb
The extraordinary creations of expert engraver F. Knight defined the lavish style of ornamentation associated with Victorian design. With clean lines and artful shading, Knight captured the spirit of the age in fanciful illustrations that combined the sentimental, the intricate, and the fantastic.

Free Download Cynthia J. Miller, "Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology"
English | 2012 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 0810885867, 0810893150 | EPUB | 16,0 mb
A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television, fashion, new media, and material culture.

Free Download Victorian Era 1837-1901: Rise Of The Modern World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781839384271 | 2023 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: A.J. Kingston
Narrator: A.I. Madison
Step back in time and journey through the captivating pages of the Victorian Era, a period that forever shaped the course of history and paved the way for the modern world we know today. Immerse yourself in the most comprehensive exploration of this era with exclusive four-book bundle, "Victorian Era 1837-1901: Rise Of The Modern World." The Ultimate Victorian Experience: Embark on an enlightening adventure that spans four meticulously curated volumes, each offering a unique perspective on the intricate tapestry of the Victorian era. From the opulent reign of Queen Victoria to the brink of the 20th century, this bundle unveils the transformative forces that redefined society, culture, technology, and the global landscape.

Free Download Thomas Hughes, "The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form "
English | ISBN: 1032356782 | 2023 | 190 pages | EPUB, PDF | 60 MB + 65 MB
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre.

Free Download Nicole C. Dittmer, "Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 "
English | ISBN: 1666900796 | 2022 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 569 KB + 2 MB
Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female "monster" figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immaterial aspects of fictional women, and blurs the distinction between nature-culture. Blending intertextual disciplines of medical sciences, ecofeminism, and fiction, she exposes female monstrosities as material and semiotic figurations. This book, then, identifies how women in the Victorian Gothic are informed by the entanglement of both immaterial discourses and material conditions. When repressed by social customs, the monistic mind-body of the material-semiotic figure reacts to and disrupts processes of ontology, transforming women into "wild" and "monstrous" (re)presentations.

Free Download Jessica Ann Hughes, "Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Reimagining Christ "
English | ISBN: 1350278157 | 2022 | 198 pages | EPUB | 877 KB
This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith-even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus’ identity to evolve.

Free Download Lesa Scholl, "Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature "
English | ISBN: 135025651X | 2022 | 166 pages | EPUB | 536 KB
Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers – Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler – each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.

Free Download Jessica Howell, "Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate "
English | ISBN: 0748692959 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 727 KB
This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Well-known authors such as Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris’s

Free Download Elvan Mutlu Barbara Franchi, "Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel"
English | ISBN: 1527503720 | 2018 | 259 pages | PDF | 1386 KB
How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions of imperial and national spaces, in the British context and beyond? This collection examines how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and practices, and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. From the travel writings of artists and polymaths such as Carmen Sylva and Richard Burton, to a reassessment of Rudyard Kiplings, H. G. Wellss and Julia Pardoes cross-cultural and cross-gender travels, this collection assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts and genres, and evaluates the representation of empires, nations, and individual identity in travel accounts covering Europe, Asia, Africa and Britain.

Free Download Iain Crawford, "Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press "
English | ISBN: 1474453147 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens