Shipboard Literary Cultures

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The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Indiv

The Draw of the Alps

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The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tour

Strong, Beautiful and Modern

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In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald shows how governments became convinced they must encourage citizens to be healthier and more active, and ho

Magazines and Modern Identities

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of technological progress and mass consumerism shaped the print cultures of countries across the glob

The History of Reading

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Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of rea