Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricately painted vases, these antiquities were amassed in vast collections held in country houses and libraries throughout Britain. In "Fabricating the Antique," Viccy Coltman examines these objects and their owners, as well as dealers...(展开全部)

马尔科姆·安德鲁斯，肯特大学英语学院荣誉退休教授，狄更斯研究专家，也长期从事维多利亚时代与视觉艺术的研究，已出版数本探讨艺术与文学作品中的风景的著作，包括《寻找如画美》（The Search for the Picturesque）、《如画美：文学资料与文献》（The Picturesque: Sources and Documents）、《风景与西方艺术》（Landscape and Western Art）等。

马尔科姆·安德鲁斯，肯特大学英语学院荣誉退休教授，狄更斯研究专家，也长期从事维多利亚时代与视觉艺术的研究，已出版数本探讨艺术与文学作品中的风景的著作，包括《寻找如画美》（The Search for the Picturesque）、《如画美：文学资料与文献》（The Picturesque: Sources and Documents）、《风景与西方艺术》（Landscape and Western Art）等。

【作者简介】 阿米塔夫•高希（Amitav Ghosh）1956年出生于加尔各答，成长于印度、孟加拉国和斯里兰卡等地。从新德里大学毕业后，他赴牛津大学圣埃德蒙学堂研修，并获社会人类学博士学位。高希以其独有的人类学者的知识背景和现实关怀，以及细腻入微的描写，构成了当代印度英语文学重要的一部分。 著作另有《理性环》（The Circle of Reason）、《阴影线》（The Shadow Lines）、《饿潮》（The Hungry Tide）以及“朱鹭号”三部曲《罂粟海》(Sea of Poppies)、《烟河》（River of Smoke）和《火海》（Flood of Fire）等十余部作品。他的作品斩获了包括法国美第奇文学奖、印度顶级文学奖挲诃德耶学院奖以及英国阿瑟•克拉克科幻奖等诸多国际大奖。2007年，他被印度总统授予印度最高荣誉“卓越贡...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns became filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. In this far-reaching stud...(展开全部)

This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work. Topics range from the school classroom to the politics of universities, and from the social uses of classical knowledge to the publishing of textbooks: although the...(展开全部)

During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious histor...(展开全部)