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Victorian Literary Mesmerism
Victorian Literary Mesmerism offers eleven interdisciplinary essays on the intersections between mesmerism and nineteenth-century literature. Its scope is complex and ambitious: ranging from considerations of the impact of literature on quasi-scientific writings of the early 1800s, to a study of Arthur Conan Doyle's use of ‘magnetic' ideas at the fin de siècle . The collection boldly leaps across generic, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries; essays on George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell sit snugly besides studies of Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins. Medicine, the law, spiritualism, physics, and literature are all discussed in light of their respective impact on Australian, British, and American history.
Brigitte's Cross
When Liz returns to New Orleans after Wren Anderson murders her partner, Alex, she finds that life as a widow is difficult. Not only is she plagued by nightmares of the murder, but Olivia is pursuing her. Liz has to discover who she is before she can choose the path she'll take now that she's on her own. Vivienne Garnier, a Voodoo Mambo with a few difficult choices of her own, helps Liz come to terms with her loss. Will Wren be able to win Olivia's trust again? Will Olivia claim her beloved Daniela?
Blood Sisters
She'd had her fun alone, and it was time to find companions again. She sat silently, listening to the noises around her. She could hear a tarot reader on the left side of the square shifting in her chair, then she smelled the newly lit stick of incense, heard the clinking of cheap bangles coming together and the crack of the cards as the bored card reader shuffled the deck for something to do. On the right, she could sense pedestrian traffic, first coming off of Decatur on the far side of the square and turning up St. Ann, drifting toward the heart of the French Quarter: Bourbon Street. When Dr. Olivia Holmwood joins the faculty as a visiting professor after Professor Clark's suicide, everyone thinks it is a good match for everyone. Alex takes her course, Reading the Vampire, hoping for a bit of frivolous fun during the semester. But Olivia's not just here to teach a course. She's looking for someone.
Victorian Automata
The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata - both human and mechanical - in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Vagabonder
Humans have always feared Caen’s kind. Survivors of a mysterious virus, Ruĝa Morto, that killed 80% of Earth’s population two centuries ago, they have endured enslavement as Neurologically Compromised Individuals, or NiCIes, owned by OnyxCorp. Now, in 2261, Caen begins a perilous journey to seek the Vagabonders, the original moon colonists, whom many believe hold the key to freeing his people. He knows he is hunted. He expects death at every turn. But he doesn’t anticipate meeting Dr. Ligeia Obumbwe, a human biogeneticist desperate to protect her brother Finn, yet another victim of the endemic virus. When OnyxCorp promises to keep Finn safe in exchange for her work in their lunar lab, she accepts despite her increasing unease regarding the Corporation’s motives. Ligeia and Caen become unlikely partners in a dangerous quest to reach the Vine, the space elevator that is the first step in their journey to the moon. What they find along the way could help them bring OnyxCorp to its knees…or destroy everything they love.
Theodora: a Home Story
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Zamani
While Liz is in mourning, Alex wakes up in the morgue to find that while she's not really dead, her old life is over. She's convinced that Wren has played a sick joke on her. She soon realizes the truth and must learn how to live in a world where she no longer exists. How will she navigate as a newly awakened vampire and how can she help her former girlfriend, Liz? Wren is behind bars, driven mad by her hunger and her guilt over what she's done. Wren comes to realize why she turned Alex and discovers that her relationship with Olivia has all been part of a larger plot. Can she make amends with Alex while making sure Olivia assists her in getting out of jail? Christophe discovers he and Olivia are not the only vampires in New Orleans. Knowing the Others exist, will he stay loyal to Olivia or will he demand more power and autonomy?
Rethinking Uncle Tom
Generally critics and interpreters of Uncle Tom have constructed a one-way view of Uncle Tom, albeit offering a few kind words for Uncle Tom along the way. Recovering Uncle Tom requires re-telling his story. This book delivers on that mission, while accomplishing something no other work on Harriet Beecher Stowe has fully attempted: an in-depth statement of her political thought. Heroeuvre, in partnership with that of her husband Calvin, constitutes a demonstration of the permanent necessity of moral and prudential judgment in human affairs. Moreover, it identifies the political conditions that can best guarantee conditions of decency. Her two disciplines-philosophy and poetry-illuminate the ...
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Boyle-Breath Breathes
READ THIS BOOK AND YOU'LL NEVER SMELL THE SAME AGAIN! Bernadette Burnett should smell (she did die in 'Boyle-Breath') but instead she brings a breath of fresh air, and lots more, to Roquefort High School. Not quite C. S. I. but 'Burt' wants to find out...first why she's back at all, then em why she killed herself!? Bernard Boyle will help again of course, with smells, odours, whiffs and stinks, even 'The Comfy Chair'? Snipers and Social Workers, ghosts and ghouls, boils and bullying, dreams and surprises, angels and devils will as always get in the way... Heaven and Hell basically, i. e. Life on the Planet Earth continues... Zeronia, that 'Social Workers of the Galaxy' orb, tries to help again with all those other everyday human problems - families, especially teenagers; gangs; pregnancy; with firestarting, dyslexia, alcoholism and UFOs; vampires, love and money? Crossing the road... Human beings try to help, a dog does also! HELL IS A PUNCTUATION ERROR
