The altar of the dead / by James, Henry, 1843-1916

Subjects: “…Manners and customs History 20th century Fiction.…”
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Russian modernism : the transfiguration of the everyday / by Hutchings, Stephen C.

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Novels of everyday life : the series in English fiction, 1850-1930 / by Langbauer, Laurie

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Urbanism and urbanity : the Spanish bourgeois novel and contemporary customs / by Mercer, Leigh, 1971-

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Everyone's theater : literature and daily life in England, 1860-1914 / by Meeuwis, Michael

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Faces along the bar : lore and order in the workingman's saloon, 1870-1920 / by Powers, Madelon

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Henry James in context /

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Women writing war : from German colonialism through World War I /

Table of Contents: “…Käte Kestien's Als die Männer im Graben lagen : WWI criticism through the lens of motherhood /…”
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British imperial literature, 1870-1940 : writing and the administration of empire / by Bivona, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence and the erotics of imperial discipline -- Resurrecting individualism: the interwar novel of imperial manners -- Conclusion: work as rule.…”
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Staging race : black performers in turn of the century America / by Sotiropoulos, Karen, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…""Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Politics, Not Minstrelsy -- 1 Minstrel Men and the World's Fair -- 2 Vaudeville Stages and Black Bohemia -- 3 The “Coon Craze' and the Search for Authenticity -- 4 “No Place Like Home': Africa on Stage -- 5 Morals, Manners, and Stage Life -- 6 Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem -- Coda: Hokum Redux -- Notes -- Index""…”
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Staging race : black performers in turn of the century America / by Sotiropoulos, Karen, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…: Africa on Stage -- 5 Morals, Manners, and Stage Life -- 6 Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem -- Coda: Hokum Redux -- Notes -- Index…”
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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism / by Barrish, Phillip

Table of Contents: “…Creating the 'odor' of the real: techniques of realism -- 4. Conflicting manners: high realism and social competition -- 5. …”
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Virginia Woolf and the study of nature / by Alt, Christina, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Works by Virginia Woolf -- Work by Marie Carmichael (Stopes) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The natural history tradition -- Taxonomic natural history in the nineteenth century -- The popular practice of natural history -- Woolfs childhood encounter with natural history -- Chapter 2 The modern life sciences -- Darwinian controversies -- The rise of the new biology -- Protection and conservation -- The early protection movement -- The later protection movement -- The psychoanalytic interpretation of collection -- Twentieth-century developments -- Ethology -- Ecology -- Ecology as a science of control -- A co-operative ethic -- Woolfs observation of nature -- Chapter 3 8216;To pin through the body with a name: Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition -- The origins of Woolfs response to taxonomic natural history -- Childhood and natural history in woolfs fiction -- Natural history and the Victorian age -- Collection -- Obsession, Possession, and Control in the voyage out -- Collection and Classification in jacobs room -- Identity formation in the waves -- Chapter 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature -- The new biology -- A room of ones own and the influence of Marie Stopes -- Woolf and the protection movement -- 8216;Miss Ormerod, applied entomology, and the protection movement -- Ethology -- The new naturalists -- The new naturalist in an old naturalist -- Ecology -- Chapter 5 Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing: Literary experimentation and scientific analogy -- Woolfs use of the analogies of collection and taxonomy -- Conceiving of an alternative -- Woolfs adoption of an alternative method -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The natural history tradition -- Chapter 2: The modern life sciences -- Chapter 3: 8216;To pin through the body with a name -- Chapter 4: Laboratory coats and field-glasses -- Chapter 5: Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Imperial Dreams and Colonial Realities : British Views of Canada 1880-1914. by Moyles, R. G.

Table of Contents: “…9 Canadian Society: A Question of MannersEpilogue: The End of an Imperial Era; NOTES; INDEX…”
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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / by Hartman, Saidiya V.

Table of Contents: “…Revolution in a minor key -- Wayward : a short entry on the possible -- The anarchy of colored girls assembled in a riotous manner -- The arrested life of Eva Perkins -- Riot and refrain -- The socialist delivers a lecture on free love -- The beauty of the chorus -- The chorus opens the way.…”

Women and Russian culture : projections and self-perceptions /

Table of Contents: “…: feminism, revisionism and Russian culture / Rosalind Marsh -- Reading the texts : rereading ourselves / Adele Barker -- The benevolent matriarch in Elena Gan and Mar'ia Zhukova / Joe Andrew -- Mid-nineteenth-century domestic ideology in Russia / Diana Greene -- Criticism and journalism at the turn of the century on the work of Russian women writers / Irina Kazakova -- Actresses, audience and fashion in the silver age : a crisis of costume / Catherine Schuler -- The art of suggesting more : Akhmatova and the diaphoric manner / Sheelagh Graham -- Under an unwomanly star : war in the writing of Ol'ga Berggol'ts / Katharine Hodgson -- A difficult journey : Evgeniia Ginzburg and women's writing of camp memoirs / Natasha Kolchevska -- Women memoirists on Pasternak / Neil Cornwell -- Iuliia Voznesenskaia : a fragmentary vision / Julie Curtis -- The other woman : character portrayal and the narrative voice in the short stories of Liudmila Petrushevskaia / Monika Katz -- Contemporary women poets in the metropolis and diaspora / Marina Ledkovsky -- Gaps in the cosmogony : witchcraft imagery in Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev / Peter I. …”
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Palgrave : Narrative of a year's journey to central and eastern Arabia --- Lady Anne Blunt : A pilgrimage to Nejd --- Charles Doughty : Travels in Arabia Deserta --- James Morier : A journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor --- John Malcolm : Sketches of Persia --- James Baillie Fraser : Travels in the Persian provinces of the Caspian --- Lady Sheil : Glimpses of life and manners in Persia --- Arminius Vambery : Travels in Central Asia --- Austen Henry Layard : Early adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia.…”
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Beyond Fingal's cave : Ossian in the musical imagination / by Porter, James, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg : Calto, Clato, Aganadeca, Gaulo ed Oitona, and two Fingals -- Beethoven's Ossianic manner, or, Where scholars fear to tread -- Excursus: Mendelssohn waives the rules : "Overture to the Isles of Fingal" (1832) and an "unfinished" coda -- The maiden bereft : "Colma" from Rust (1780) to Schubert (1816) -- Sca?…”
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"... mit ebenso viel Tatkraft wie Liebe zur Musik" : Leiterinnen privater Musikschulen in Sachsen und Mitteldeutschland 1870 - 1920 / by Liu, Verena

Table of Contents: “…Musikschulen in Sachsen und Mitteldeutschland 1870-1920 89 -- 3.1 Überblick 89 -- 3.1.1 Öffentliche Konservatorien . 91 -- Leipzig -- Internationalität und Vorbildcharakter . 91 -- Dresden -- ein ,königliches' Privatkonservatorium 93 -- Weimar -- Orchesterschule für Männer, Musikschule für Frauen 97 -- Sondershausen -- eine Kapellmeistergründung . 99 -- 3.1.2 Private Musikschulen, privater Musikunterricht 103 -- 3.1.3 Klavierunterricht als Hauptstandbein. …”
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Erik Werenskiolds grafikk : raderinger og litografier / by Fremmerlid, Anny B.

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