Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

AMERICAN ECONOhfIC GROWTH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

"Russian nervousness": neurasthenia and national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.

"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...

Guardians and angels. Parents and children in nineteenth-century literature