Cambridge UP, 1996. xii + 203 pp. £40 hc. The looming end of the twentieth century may well have originally inspired the rash of recent work on the end of the nineteenth, in the hope that one fin de ...

The returned book, titled "The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley," was authored by a prominent English illustrator associated ...

The improbable but all-too-true story behind Matthew Pearl’s latest nonfiction effort, “Save Our Souls: The True Story of a ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society ... Parush is among the first scholars to ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...

Using our images from the Internet Archive, Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource. Users can browse across all four volumes by topic and ...

The nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the self-conception of the intellectual ... and disappearing institutions but also unprecedented opportunities for artistic and scientific ...

This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their ...

Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the ...

The 19th century volumes, printed in Britain, all have emerald green covers. Arsenic was commonly used to colour books at the time. The texts taken off the shelves were identified as potentially ...