This e-book offers clean views at the item international, embodied adventure and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and tradition. individuals discover canonical works through Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, along less-familiar texts and various items together with nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum shows and antiques.
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