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Product Description: A scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to grace a range of Pre-Raphaelite merchandise. Described by Henry James as a 'dark, silent, medieval woman', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a rather one-dimensional figure in subsequent accounts...read more
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9780748641277 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 30, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to grace a range of Pre-Raphaelite merchandise.
Product Description: William Morris - Victorian socialist, designer, poet, artist and craftsman - urged his contemporaries to 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful', foregrounding his belief in the importance of beautiful practicality in daily domestic life...read more
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9781443817578 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, February 1, 2010, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: William Morris - Victorian socialist, designer, poet, artist and craftsman - urged his contemporaries to 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful', foregrounding his belief in the importance of beautiful practicality in daily domestic life.
Product Description: Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond...read more
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9780230525429 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.
Product Description: Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and politics of 'slowness' as it investigates the growth of Slow Food into a worldwide, 'eco-gastronomic' movement...read more
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9781845201593 | Ill edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 4, 2006), cover price $120.95 | About this edition: Originating in Italy, "slow food" is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the pleasures of the table and a slower approach to life in general.
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9780868409870 | New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd, August 31, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world.
9781845201609 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 4, 2006, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world.
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9781859735824 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2002, cover price $109.95
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9781859735879 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2002, cover price $37.95
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