San Antonio College Library

A political history of the reconstruction period and an analysis of the effect of this period on the history of the South.

This Companion provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh insights into the works of well-known figures such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson and the writings of women poets -- like Amy Levy, and Augusta Webster -- whose contribution to Victorian culture has only recently been acknowledged by modern scholars. The volume, which will be of interest...

"As Robert David tells us in this book, Britain's imagined Arctic was created through a staggering variety of representations: from travel narratives to works of art and panoramas, from museum displays, tableaux vivants, and international exhibitions, to engravings in the illustrated press, as well as lectures organised by the geographical societies, school text books and adventure stories for children. There were also numerous cartoons, advertisements...