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UNINA9910637783803321 |
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Gambino Dinorah |
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New Trends on Vanadium Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Medicinal Chemistry |
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Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
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1 electronic resource (196 p.) |
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Research & information: general |
Chemistry |
Inorganic chemistry |
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The recognition of the exceptional chemical and biological properties of vanadium compounds has led, in recent decades, to extensive research exploring their chemistry, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry. Due to the prospective application of vanadium compounds as therapeutic agents against diseases such as diabetes, cancer and those provoked by parasites and bacteria, vanadium coordination chemistry and biochemistry has been an area of extensive research. Currently, the most promising potential uses of vanadium compounds are as nutritional supplements and as anticancer agents potentiated by immunotherapy. Nevertheless, researchers from all over the world are dedicating their efforts to vanadium research related to other potential therapeutic applications of vanadium compounds and to obtain insights into their beneficial effects on health and their modes of action. This Special Issue collected research contributions focused on recent advances in vanadium chemistry, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry. I expect that this collection will have a great impact on the future direction of vanadium research. |
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UNINA9910779666203321 |
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Brantlinger Patrick <1941-> |
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Rule of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : British literature and imperialism, 1830-1914 / / Patrick Brantlinger |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 1988 |
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0-8014-6702-0 |
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0-8014-6703-9 |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Imperialism in literature |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain |
Colonies in literature |
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First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1990. |
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Includes bibliographical (p. 277-301) and index. |
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pt. I. Dawn -- pt. II. Noon -- pt. III. Dusk. |
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A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows |
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Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880's to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history. |
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