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Tennyson And Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (The Nineteenth Century Series)

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Tennyson And Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (The Nineteenth Century Series)Tennyson And Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (The Nineteenth Century Series)
This is the first book-length study of Tennyson’s record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson’s supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a… More

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City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (The Nineteenth Century)

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City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (The Nineteenth Century)City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (The Nineteenth Century)
The title chosen by the author is derived from the distinction Socrates makes between his ideal society and the insalubrious regions to which he banishes the mimetic poets. The notion of health only occurs as a singularity. Diseases are plural. Why did Socrates use the polarity of health and disease so forcefully?… More

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