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Lesa Scholl
In her study of Charlotte BrontA<<, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and other…
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Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and Charlotte BrontA , Lesa Scholl explores how the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional…
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In her study of Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Martineau, and George Eliot, the author shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and…
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This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected understandings of what it means to be human.
Lesa Scholl (University)
Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Dr Lesa Scholl
Focusing on the influence of the Oxford Movement on key British poets of the nineteenth-century, this book charts their ruminations on the nature of hunger, poverty and economic injustice. Exploring…
Dr Lesa Scholl (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Building on theories of space and place, this collection examines the global reach of Elizabeth Gaskell’s influence and places her work within the narrative of British letters and narrative identity…
Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories…
