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Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.
Living in a Material World
At a time when the world is grappling with rising food and energy prices and climate change, Living in a Material World provides an insight into some of the contributing factors behind these challenges. The emergence of new consumers in China, India, Russia and the Middle East has added formidable competition to the natural resources that have been taken for granted in the developed world. Everything we consume involves the use of metals, fossil fuels or agriculture. Our high tech 'lifestyles' depend on the secure supply of these raw materials which we take from planet earth and use to make our lives more comfortable, more productive or more manageable. The effect of this increasing global d...
I Can Speak Bully
A tool for parents to use in bringing their children on the journey of understanding bullies and how to help them find the friendship and acceptance they are truly looking for.
Stitches
One of the balls in a baseball factory, who dreams of playing in the major leagues, has a happy and surprising life after a mailman takes him home to his young son.
Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, many individuals were motivated by their religious creeds to give. The contents of this volume introduce readers to the many individuals who distinguished themselves through charity and philanthropy and the causes they took up.
Victorian Pets and Poetry
Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the period. Animal welfare organizations utilized poems about canine and feline suffering in institutional publications to call attention to various abuses. Elegies and epitaphs over the loss of a beloved cat, songbird, or dog were printed on funeral cards, tombstones, and appeared in mass-produced poetry collections as well as those intended for an intimate circle of friends. Yet poems about pets, as well as attendant issues such as breeding and overpopulation, have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works and short stories. With an introduction, afterword, and eight essays offering new perspectives on significant as well as lesser known poems, Victorian Pets and Poetry remedies this omission.
