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Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II

Barbara Leckie

Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume…

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Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914

Barbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the pubic sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century and how…

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Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Barbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie’s Open Houses addresses nineteenth-century documentary and print culture dedicated to convincing the reader of the wretchedness of housing of the poor and its urgent need for reform. It…

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Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time

Barbara Leckie

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her…

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Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time

Barbara Leckie

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her…

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London Labour and the London Poor: Selections

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Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth century oral history. The collection teems with the minute particulars…

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