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Railroads and American Culture in the 19th Century

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Jezebel

The 19th Century Queen of Celebrity Culture

To hear tell of Instagram influencers, you’d think the art of attracting—and more importantly, holding—public attention were something new. But there isn’t a trick in the book that famed 19th-century ...
The Conversation

How English women wrote about their travels in the 19th century

Victoria Puchal Terol does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Yahoo

Brian Maidment, scholar of uncharted byways of 19th-century culture from periodicals to dustmen

Maidment with early 19th-century periodicals: he was thrilled by ‘the inky blackness of the lettering, shouting display types and perpetually inventive combination of type, image and white page’ ...
Christianity Today

Orphan in the Storm

Melville and the crisis of moral authority. Although most periods in history have no doubt served as home to an unacknowledged genius or two, few are likely to have housed as many as the culture of ...
The Economist

A single market in culture emerged in the 19th century

The Europeans.authorBy Orlando Figes.Metropolitan Books; 592 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. FOR AN EXAMPLE of the cosmopolitan glamour and sheer brassiness of high European culture in the 19th century, ...