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English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Stephen Knight

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers, both the mostly male factory workers who operated in the oppressive mills of the midlands and north and, in other stories, the oppressed seamstresses who worked mostly in London in very poor and low-paid conditions. Beginning with a general introduction to workers’ fiction at the start of the period, this volume charts the rise of an identifiable genre of industrial fiction and the development of a substantial mode of seamstress fiction through the 1840s, including an analysis of novels by Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, and more briefly Charlotte Bronte, Geraldine Jewsbury and George Eliot. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of industrial fiction and nineteenth-century Britain, or those with an interest in the relationship between literature, society and politics.
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G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction

G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction

Stephen Knight

Routledge
2018
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George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today, he remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature.A serious radical, strongly pro-woman, and a leading Chartist seeking the vote for all men, Reynolds’ vigorous heroines differ notably from the Victorian novelists’ timid norm. He was strongly pro-Jewish and pro-Gypsy, very interested in French and Italian society, but wrote for ordinary English working people. Dickens thought him a dangerous leftist: for all these reasons, he was excluded from the elite literary world.G. W. M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range and status. This book examines his massive popularity and notable concern with the problems of ordinary people, especially women, in the complex and often dangerous new world of the modern city. With the support of his wife Susannah, Reynolds’ enormous influence would also make a contribution to the cause of mass political education through his role in the development of popular fiction and journalism. This book is a major innovation in the field of Victorian literary studies, with relevance to popular cultural studies, the politics of literature, and publishing history, presenting properly a much overlooked major English novelist.
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Captain William George Gabain M.C.

Captain William George Gabain M.C.

Stephen Knight

Lulu.com
2023
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The Great War broke out on August 4th, 1914, impacting the lives of millions around the world. Many people thought - or hoped - that the War would be short. One of the young men who entered the fighting that month, and who served until his death in March 1918, was twenty-five year old William George Gabain M.C. Known to family to this day, as "Uncle Willie," he lost his life early in Germany's last offensive, Operation Michael, in March 1918, and is buried in the British cemetery at Pargny, France by the Somme Canal. Gabain was born in Le Havre. He traveled and studied in Germany and also read German language at Cambridge. Because of this background and fluency in French and German, he was valued as an intelligence officer. In 1915, he operated a train watching service in German occupied Belgium. In France he spent his time at GHQ, served in the 1916 Battle of the Somme and at Ypres in Belgium. He questioned prisoners, studied the terrain, flew over the trenches, translated captured documents and letters, listened to German wireless communications, and reported to GHQ and General Haig. His best friend was his Triumph motorcycle. He was educated at Sandroyd, Charterhouse and Cambridge's Pembroke College. He loved sports, especially boxing. He was survived by his parents, Charles Edward Gabain and Elizabeth Hutton Gabain, and his sisters Marjorie, Dorothy, Ruth, Nora, and Ethel. In 1921, his grief stricken mother privately published a book with excerpts from his journals, his letters, her thoughts and feelings, and condolences the family received from people who knew and served with him. His story is one of millions of men and their families who suffered and lost so much in The Great War.
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Captain William George Gabain M.C.

Captain William George Gabain M.C.

Stephen Knight

Lulu.com
2023
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The Great War broke out on August 4th, 1914, impacting the lives of millions around the world. Many people thought - or hoped - that the War would be short. One of the young men who entered the fighting that onth, and who served until his death in March 1918, was twenty-five year old William George Gabain M.C. Known to family to this day, as "Uncle Willie," he lost his life early in Germany's last offensive, Operation Michael, in March 1918, and is buried in the British cemetery at Pargny, France by the Somme Canal. Gabain was born in Le Havre. He traveled and studied in Germany and also read German language at Cambridge. Because of this background and fluency in French and German, he was valued as an intelligence officer. In 1915, he operated a train watching service in German occupied Belgium. In France he spent his time at GHQ, served in the 1916 Battle of the Somme and at Ypres in Belgium. He questioned prisoners, studied the terrain, flew over the trenches, translated captured documents and letters, listened to German wireless communications, and reported to GHQ and General Haig. His best friend was his Triumph motorcycle. He was educated at Sandroyd, Charterhouse and Cambridge's Pembroke College. He loved sports, especially boxing. He was survived by his parents, Charles Edward Gabain and Elizabeth Hutton Gabain, and his sisters Marjorie, Dorothy, Ruth, Nora, and Ethel. In 1921, his grief stricken mother privately published a book with excerpts from his journals, his letters, her thoughts and feelings, and condolences the family received from people who knew and served with him. His story is one of millions of men and their families who suffered and lost so much in The Great War.
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Towards Sherlock Holmes

Towards Sherlock Holmes

Stephen Knight

McFarland Co Inc
2016
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Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre--Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was a best-seller in 1887--and American and French authors created new forms. This book explores thematic aspects of 19th century crime fiction's complex history, including various social and gender roles between different time periods and settings, and the imperial elements that made Sherlock Holmes seem dynamically contemporary.
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Australian Crime Fiction

Australian Crime Fiction

Stephen Knight

McFarland Co Inc
2018
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Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.
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Merlin

Merlin

Stephen Knight

Cornell University Press
2017
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Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose immensely popular History of the Kings of Britain (1138) transmitted the story of Merlin to Europe at large. He covers French and German as well as Anglophone elements of the myth and brings the story up to the present with discussions of a globalized Merlin who finds his way into popular literature, film, television, and New Age philosophy. Knight argues that Merlin in all his guises represents a conflict basic to Western societies-the clash between knowledge and power. While the Merlin story varies over time, the underlying structural tension remains the same whether it takes the form of bard versus lord, magician versus monarch, scientist versus capitalist, or academic versus politician. As Knight sees it, Merlin embodies the contentious duality inherent to organized societies. In tracing the applied meanings of knowledge in a range of social contexts, Knight reveals the four main stages of the Merlin myth: Wisdom (early Celtic British), Advice (medieval European), Cleverness (early modern English), and Education (worldwide since the nineteenth century). If a wizard can be captured within the pages of a book, Knight has accomplished the feat.
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Reading Robin Hood

Reading Robin Hood

Stephen Knight

Manchester University Press
2017
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This book explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present day has stood up for the values of natural law and true justice. Analysing the whole sequence of Robin Hood adventures, it begins with the medieval tradition, including early poems and the long-surviving sung ballads, and goes on to look at two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined Robin as a modern figure – a lover of nature, Marian, England and the rights of the ordinary man. In novels and films he has developed into an international figure of freedom, while Marian’s role has grown in a modern feminist context. Even to this day, the Robin Hood myth continues to reproduce itself, constantly discovering new forms and new meanings.
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Charges: The Event Trilogy Book 1

Charges: The Event Trilogy Book 1

Stephen Knight

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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It Was the End of Days.The world had less than seven hours to prepare. When it hit, the coronal mass ejection from the sun rolled back hundreds of years of technological innovation. Airplanes fell from the skies. Power grids crashed. Even electrical cabling was turned to slag. No internet. No cable TV. No electricity. No modern day conveniences of any kind, from fancy European sedans to smart phones to clean, running water. The entire world is plunged back into the Dark Ages in less than a second, courtesy of the most powerful Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) event in recorded history.Television development exec Tony Vincenzo has always lived a high-society life, first in Los Angeles, now in Manhattan. As New York City tears itself apart in an orgy of violence, Vincenzo has to leave his high-floor luxury condominium on Central Park South's Billionaire's Row in order to return to his wife and young son in the Hollywood Hills overlooking LA. But the only way to get there is to walk, and Vincenzo is no Joe Survivalist-he's the kind of guy used to the trappings of the good life. While society unravels all around him, he has to not only make it out of New York alive, but across the entirety of a nation descending into feral madness.His journey becomes more complex when he commits a truly selfless deed, and winds up with two young charges: seven-year-old Daniel, an autistic boy ill-equipped for a life of hardship, and his sassy four-year-old sister, Gabriella. Together, the trio will need every stroke of luck they can find to persevere in the lawless lands that lie ahead of them...and survive the brutality of the serial killer Roth who pursues them.
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Dead in L.A.: A "Gathering Dead" Novel

Dead in L.A.: A "Gathering Dead" Novel

Stephen Knight

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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A "Gathering Dead" NovelWhen Hollywood screenwriter and former Border Patrolman Robert Wallace recovers from a sickness that had left him bedridden for days, he finds that his wife has been killed, his son is missing, and Los Angeles has been overrun by hordes of carnivorous corpses.Only this is no movie set. It's the zombie apocalypse, and the City of Angels is now the hunting ground of the dead. Their prey: the living. Whether on high-paid movie stars or penniless bums on Skid Row, the dead want to feed, and human beings are the only item on their menu. Wallace embarks in a desperate search for his son while trying to evade the legions of ghouls that totter across the crumbling ruins of Los Angeles.Welcome to Hell A
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The Crime Reporter

The Crime Reporter

Stephen Knight

Trafford Publishing
2020
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A fast paced novel about a Los Angeles Times crime reporter who takes on a local criminal kingpin billionaire Martin Nelson. Harry Walsh has been reporting on the murders of young women since the beginning of the year. Things really begin to heat up once he gets on the trail of those doing the killing. He tries to expose Nelson as being responsible for numerous criminal activities in Los Angeles, including murder. Walsh becomes a target himself and gets entangled in the United States criminal justice system. The book details the profits that can be obtained by someone at the top of an independent criminal organization, not in anyway associated with the east or west coast mob. It shows how difficult it is to pin anything on someone like Nelson. It identifies illegal criminal activity revenue streams, both clean and dirty money. The action moves from Marina Del Rey, California to St Tropez on the French Riviera. This is Stephen Knight's third novel. A departure from his first two novels about nuclear espionage in the United States, The Minot Mission and special forces payback in Afghanistan, The Afghan Mission.
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Nature and Medieval Literature

Nature and Medieval Literature

Stephen Knight

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
2024
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This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The study then embarks on full-chapter studies of the treatment of nature in a range of major authors and texts, including the work of Chaucer, the Scottish Chaucerians (Dunbar and Henryson), the medieval and early modern outlaw myths (particularly those concerning Robin Hood), the medieval English romances, and finally a selection of medieval English lyrics. The book argues that while some texts represent the actual forces and patterns of the natural and animal worlds, other texts use the natural and animal worlds both as a way of understanding nature itself and as a basis for a critique of the human and increasingly urban world of the medieval period.
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Red Shadows On Liberty's Soil

Red Shadows On Liberty's Soil

Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight
2024
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A fast paced action packed international thriller and ultimate espionage adventure. The action moves from the Kremlin, to the biggest nuclear missile sites in the then Soviet Union and the United States followed by their escape via Singapore to Australia. Following their arrest by INTERPOL and with their CIA Black Ops training they are sent Afghanistan. For several years Gerry Williams and Peter Shelby are manipulated by Soviet and American task masters to undertake perilous missions culminating with their eventual sanctuary in China.
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The Last Town: A Novel of the Zombie Apocalypse

The Last Town: A Novel of the Zombie Apocalypse

Stephen Knight

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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It started in the Middle East. A flu-like plague that infected thousands and killed roughly ten percent of its victims. Those who died awoke once again, but they were no longer among the living--they came back as soulless carnivorous corpses who desired only one thing: to feed on living human flesh.As the infection spread across Europe and the rest of the globe, cities were overwhelmed. Nations fell. Humanity flickered like a candle flame in the wind.In the United States: the nation's great cities become hunting grounds. New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles...all fall victim to hordes of shambling dead who want to devour the living.
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A Complete Guide to FileMaker Web Publishing with FMStudio

A Complete Guide to FileMaker Web Publishing with FMStudio

Stephen Knight; Allyson Olm; Michael Petrov

Lulu.com
2008
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Now you will be unstoppable! Everything you need to build websites with FileMaker is in this book. Many of you have wanted to build FileMaker driven websites for yourself, your boss or your clients. You have been unable to do so because of time restraints and the pressure of learning yet another language. This book teaches you how to use FMStudio to build powerful FileMaker applications without writing a single line of code. FMStudio is a Dreamweaver extension that connects to FileMaker. FMStudio enables you to drag and drop FileMaker fields into Dreamweaver. Using our powerful wizards, you can instantly create real world FileMaker web solutions. Quickly learn how to build FileMaker websites by following our step by step tutorials. Add a new valuable tool to your FileMaker tool belt and take a step into the world of web publishing with FMStudio.
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The Ancestors Spoke

The Ancestors Spoke

Irvin Stephen Knight

Lulu.com
2011
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This is the story of the African experience as a historical narrative told through a priestess in poetry. Visualize and follow the Ancestors' story from the community, through the middle passage and plantation slavery, and to freedom. Take a peep into the present and future of Africa and the diaspora through the eyes of the Ancestors. 'The Ancestors Spoke' is a great companion book for African and American history students, a valuable gift for friends and loved ones and an excellent poetry performance script with Afro-American music.
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