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Chronology of the library 1841-1901: 50th report, 1901/02.
Increasingly, historians & museum curators are using technological artifacts as expressions of human culture. Reflecting the broad scope of interaction between science, technology & society, they can help us see not just machines, but also imaginative worlds of the past. Building on this growing interest, three of the world's greatest depositories of material heritage in the history of technology - the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in London & the Smithsonian Institution in Washington - are cooperating in the new series of publications which explores the use of objects as resources in the study of the history of science, technology & medicine. Each volume will examine a wide...
This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.