Bily, Cynthia A.
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Tonna, a nineteenth century novelist, was interested in the plight of poor factory workers, and in The Wrongs of Woman (1843-1844) she revealed the particular sufferings of female laborers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
Readioff, Corrina;Readioff, Corrina
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the Eng...
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
2023
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novelOffers detailed insight into the development and function of the epigraph from 1750 to 1850Demonstrates the enduring versatility of the epigraph and of paratextual approaches to literary criticismPresents a survey of pre-chapter paratext in English fiction first-published between 1750 and 1850, drawing upon a dataset of nearly 6000 novelsProvides case studies of epigraphs in the works of canonical authors (e.g. Radcliffe, Lewis, Scott, and Gaskell), and places these within a wider context of epigraphic and literary development in fiction by influential, though less well-known, writers (Chaigneau, Helme, Stannard Barrett, Gore)Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850 uncovers the early history of the epigraph, narrating the surprising story of how this long-overlooked feature morphed from moral didactic heading to Gothic tag-line to witty realist commentary within a single century. Adorning fictional narratives of rakes and sex workers, oppressed heroines and Jacobite heroes, the epigraph has been used by authors to preach, teach, amuse, or even completely misdirect their readers. Supported by a survey of pre-chapter paratext in nearly 6000 novels from 1750 to 1850, this monograph explores the changing influences upon and functions of epigraphs over time via detailed close readings and literary criticism. Focusing upon key generic developments, this book adopts a case-study style format to examine epigraphic usage in the works of canonical authors including Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and Elizabeth Gaskell alongside those of less well-known novelists such as William Chaigneau, Elizabeth Helme, and Catherine Gore.
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From Memory to Marble : The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument Part II: The Scenes
Elizabeth Rankin;Rolf Michael Schneider;Elizabeth Rankin;Rolf Michael Schne...
For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one o...
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From Memory to Marble : The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument Part II: The Scenes
2020
For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble, has been made the subject of a book. The pictorial narrative of the Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa's interior during the'Great Trek'(1835-52) represents a crucial period of South Africa's past. Conceptualising the frieze both reflected on and contributed to the country's socio-political debates in the 1930s and 1940s when it was made. The book considers the active role the Monument played in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and the development of apartheid, as well as its place in post-apartheid heritage. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of the complex processes followed in creating a major monument. Based on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose and content of the frieze, through all the stages of its design, to its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble from Monte Altissimo, up to its final installation in the Monument. The book examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it is depicted. The second volume expands on the first, by investigating each of the twenty-seven scenes of the frieze in depth, providing new insights into not only the frieze, but also South Africa's history. François van Schalkwyk of African Minds, co-publisher with De Gruyter writes: From Memory to Marble is an open access monograph in the true sense of the word. Both volumes of the digital version of the book are available in full and free of charge from the date of publication. This approach to publishing democratises access to the latest scholarly publications across the globe. At the same time, a book such as From Memory to Marble, with its unique and exquisite photographs of the frieze as well as its wealth of reproduced archival materials, demands reception of a more traditional kind, that is, on the printed page. For this reason, the book is likewise available in print as two separate volumes. The printed and digital books should not be seen as separate incarnations; each brings its own advantages, working together to extend the reach and utility of From Memory to Marble to a range of interested readers. For more material you can browse at Stanford's database'Voortrekker Monumentality: a digital archive'.
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"D?n Na Malata," Mixed-Race Identity and Status in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1831-1931.
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International Journal of African Historical Studies. 2023, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p329-385. 57p.
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Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive : Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 2) - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Beihefte
Laura Auteri;Laura Auteri
Exil, Migration, Vertreibung, Flucht sowie Katastrophen finden in der deutschsprachige...
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Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive : Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 2) - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Beihefte
2023; Vol. 00002
Exil, Migration, Vertreibung, Flucht sowie Katastrophen finden in der deutschsprachigen Literatur ein Echo. Die nach solchen Erlebnissen entstandenen psychischen Störungen und Traumata werden in diesem Band durch einen Fokus auf ein vielfältiges literarisches Korpus und auf eine breite Reihe von Autoren analysiert.Der zweite Band enthält Beiträge zu folgenden Themen:- Katastrophenliteratur;- „Auf Leben und Tod'- zeitgenössische literarische Texte als Kommemorationsmedien des Todes im Hinblick auf transkulturelle Perspektiven einer interdisziplinären und komparatistisch orientierten thanatologischen Kulturwissenschaft;- Exil, Migration, Flucht und Vertreibung, Alte und Neue Kriege – Literarische Topoi des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts;- Geschichte(n) erinnern – Memory Boom und Störungen der Erinnerung.
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Psychology in literature - German literature--History and criticism - Disasters in literatureContent provider:
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Destins De Femmes : French Women Writers, 1750-1850
John Claiborne Isbell;John Claiborne Isbell
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during t...
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Destins De Femmes : French Women Writers, 1750-1850
2023
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book's thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women's rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women's contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers'lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period. This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women's writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
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French literature--19th century--Bio-bibliography - Romanticism--France--Bio-bibliography - French literature--Women authors--Bio-bibliography - French literature--18th century--Bio-bibliographyContent provider:
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
Dalrymple, Mary;Dalrymple, Mary
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structur...
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
2023; Vol. 00013
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan andRonald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described andmodeled by parallel structures representing different facets oflinguistic organization and information, related by means offunctional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I,Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntacticconcepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviewsLFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. PartIII, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFGwork on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure,and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work inthe disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability,psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal andcomputational issues and applications, provides an overview ofcomputational and formal properties of the theory, implementations,and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, andtreebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG workon languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particularlanguage families. The final section, Comparing LFG with otherlinguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to othertheoretical approaches.
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Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
Halina Zawiszová;Martin Lavička (eds.);Halina Zawiszová;Martin Lavička (eds...
This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voicel...
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Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
2023; Vol. 00001
This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia - from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and discrimination, or the problems of migrant laborers in India and performing arts in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, it provides insight into satirical woodblock prints from the Boshin War period or works of literature produced in Japanese leprosariums in the first half of the 20th century, as well as into selected topics in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Sinophone Tibetan literature. Collectively, the chapters comprised in this volume narrate the multifaceted relationship between'voice'and'power,'thus highlighting the fact that the question of'voice'is closely intertwined with a variety of social, political, and cultural issues.
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
John C. Winters;John C. Winters
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois,...
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
2023
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous'Sky Walkers,'the steelworkers who built the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, the Iroquois are viewed as an exceptional people who helped make the state's history unique and forward-looking. John C. Winters contends that this vision was not manufactured by Anglo-Americans but was created and spread by an influential, multi-generational Seneca-Iroquois family. From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse (adopted), and Arthur C. Parker used the tools of a colonial culture to shape aspects of contemporary New York culture in their own peoples'image. The result was the creation of'The Amazing Iroquois,'an historical memory that entangled indigenous self-definition, colonial expectations about racial stereotypes and Native American politics, and the personalities of the people who cultivated and popularized that memory. Through the imperial politics of the eighteenth century to pioneering museum exhibitions of the twentieth, these four Seneca celebrities packaged and delivered Iroquoian stories to the broader public in defiance of the contemporary racial stereotypes and settler colonial politics that sought to bury them. Owing to their skill, fame, and the timely intervention of Iroquois leadership, this remarkable family showcases the lasting effects of indigenous agents who fashioned a popular and long-lasting historical memory that made the Iroquois an obvious and foundational part of New Yorkers'conception of their own exceptional state history and self-identity.
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Letter Writing Among Poets : From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
Ellis, Jonathan;Ellis, Jonathan
The first book to look at poets'letters seriously as an art form Fifteen enlightening ...
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Letter Writing Among Poets : From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
2015
The first book to look at poets'letters seriously as an art form Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other people's mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections—Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing—the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate. Key Features: A comprehensive collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and Twentieth Century poets Contributors are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Hermione Lee, Paul Muldoon, Daniel Karlin, Hugh Haughton, Anne Fadiman, Edna Longley and Angela Leighton An absorbing history of literary friendship, literary love, and literary rivalry A sensitive study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry
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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
Max Ryynänen;Heidi S. Kosonen;Susanne C. Ylönen;Max Ryynänen;Heidi S. Koson...
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied ...
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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
2022
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology.
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Aesthetics--Physiological aspects - Aversion--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Factory Girls : The Working Lives of Women & Children
Paul Chrystal;Paul Chrystal
Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, wor...
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Factory Girls : The Working Lives of Women & Children
2022
Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day's work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.
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Children--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century - Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century - Children--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century - Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century - Industrial revolution--Great Britain - Child labor--Great Britain--History--19th century - Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century - Child labor--Great Britain--History--20th century - Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Gender and History : Ireland, 1852–1922
Jyoti Atwal;Ciara Breathnach;Sarah-Anne Buckley;Jyoti Atwal;Ciara Breathnac...
This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famin...
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Gender and History : Ireland, 1852–1922
2022
This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women's history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources, methodologies, and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family, reproduction and sexuality, the medical and prison systems, masculinities and femininities, institutions, charity, the missions, migration, ‘elite women', and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological, the book provides insight into the comparative, transnational, and connected histories of Ireland, India, and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history, the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history, gender studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, European history, Irish history, Irish studies, and political history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Women--Ireland--History--19th century - Women--Ireland--History--20th century - Sex role--Ireland--History--19th century - Sex role--Ireland--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The First Black Archaeologist : A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
John W.I. Lee;John W.I. Lee
An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeolo...
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The First Black Archaeologist : A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
2022
An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe, from contemporary publications, and from newly discovered documents, this book chronicles, for the first time, Gilbert's remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta, Georgia, to the lecture halls of Brown University, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta's Paine Institute, and through his travels in Greece, western Europe, and the Belgian Congo, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. Readers interested in the early development of American archaeology in Greece will find an entirely new perspective here, as Gilbert was one of the first Americans of any race to do archaeological work in Greece. Those interested in African American history and culture will gain an invaluable new perspective on a leading yet hidden figure of the late 1800s and early 1900s, whose life and work touched many different aspects of the African American experience.
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Archaeologists--United States--Biography - Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Eretria (Extinct city) - Archaeology--BiographyContent provider:
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
William St Clair;David St Clair;Lucy Barnes;William St Clair;David St Clair...
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throug...
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
2022
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer;Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze trav...
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
2022; Vol. 00036
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of'otherness', the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries
Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu;Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu
Historians of the early modern Ottoman Empire have long been pointing out that in the ...
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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries
2022; Vol. 00015
Historians of the early modern Ottoman Empire have long been pointing out that in the early sixteenth century the religious outlook of the sultans and the imperially sponsored hierarchy of religious scholars underwent a shift: while heretofore they had been largely unconcerned with defining, observing or enforcing a Sunni ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy', they now became increasingly invested in precisely such a project. How did the understanding of what constituted a Sunni orthodoxy and orthopraxy evolve across the spectrum of Ottoman society between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries and how did it affect various Ottoman communities? Was it by chance or perhaps due to similar social and political processes that the growing polarization between Sunnism and Shi‘ism, as well as contemporaneous building of Ottoman and Safavid empires, precisely coincided with the Catholic-Protestant (and later Calvinist) polarization and the rise of confessional states in Europe? Were these contemporaneous projects of defining correct belief and/or practice in some sort of dialogue, and is this dialogue traceable in the sources left by various individuals and communities living in or passing through Ottoman domains between c. 1500 and c. 1750? The present volume explores these questions and early modern Muslim, Jewish and Christian discourses on communal belonging, ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy'through the framework of a shared ‘confessional age', thus obviating the top-down model of inter-confessional relations in which Christians and Jews are always seen solely as Ottoman subjects. It offers a unique perspective on Ottoman society and early modern politics of piety by approaching empire's religious groups not as homogenous blocks of ‘Muslims', ‘Jews'and ‘Christians'but rather highlighting intra-communal diversity. By adopting a wider Eurasian perspective, contributors explore the repercussions of the developments within various Ottoman communities as far afield as the Safavid Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, and Europe, and vice versa. The papers focus on specific people who disseminated ideas about ritual and creedal normativity and social clusters through which such ideas spread. At the same time, they also explore the limits of such normative discourses and their agents, as well as the role of alternative ideas about confessional and communal belonging informed by various forms of ambiguity.
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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature
Paula von Gleich;Paula von Gleich
American Frictions presents cutting-edge research in the field of American cultural st...
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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature
2022; Vol. 00004
American Frictions presents cutting-edge research in the field of American cultural studies. The series explores manifold complexities and frictions in the Americas, building on existing scholarship and propelling it in new directions. It challenges nation-based approaches by offering perspectives that are polyvocal, including interdisciplinary and transnational viewpoints from North America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Volumes in the series – peer reviewed monographs and collections – delve into literature, culture, theory, and the arts, situating them in historical contexts of global networks and migrations. They contribute to epistemologies of difference, diversity, and inequality, including gender, queer, decolonial, indigenous, and critical race studies.
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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism - African Americans in literature - American literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla;Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between human...
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Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
2022
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean's history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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Whales--Pacific Area - Whaling--Pacific Area--History - Human-animal relationships--Pacific AreaContent provider:
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British Periodicals and Spanish Literature : Mapping the Romantic Canon
Mª Eugenia Perojo Arronte;Cristina Flores Moreno;Mª Eugenia Perojo Arronte;...
With the main goal of contributing to a wider understanding of the presenceof Spanish ...
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British Periodicals and Spanish Literature : Mapping the Romantic Canon
2022; Vol. 00003
With the main goal of contributing to a wider understanding of the presenceof Spanish literature and culture in British Romanticism, this book focuseson the instrumental role played by the British periodical press in theAnglo-Spanish literary and cultural exchange in the first half of the nineteenthcentury. All the chapters bear witness to the contrasting and variedperception of everything Spanish, the different strategies of exploration, appropriationand rewriting of its cultural and literary tradition. Besides, theyall reveal the intricate web of cultural, political and religious factors tingingthe discourse of British Romantic literary critics and authors on the Spanishcultural capital.
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Spanish literature--Appreciation--Great Britain - Romanticism--Great Britain - British periodicals--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Fontanes Medien
Peer Trilcke;Peer Trilcke
Theodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent ...
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Fontanes Medien
2022
Theodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent in London lernte er die innovativste Presselandschaft seiner Zeit kennen; als Redakteur in Berlin leistete er journalistische Kärrnerarbeit; er schrieb Kritiken über das Theater, die bildende Kunst und die Literatur – und auch seine Romane wie seine Reisebücher sind stets Medienprodukte, als Serien in in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften platziert, bevor sie auf dem Buchmarkt erschienen.Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Kongresses, veranstaltet 2019 vom Theodor-Fontane-Archiv in Potsdam. Die ebenso rasante wie umfassende Medialisierung und Vernetzung der Gesellschaft im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts wird dabei als produktive Voraussetzung der schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit Fontanes begriffen. Eingebettet in ein weit verzweigtes Netz der Korrespondenz und der postalischen Textzirkulation, vertraut mit den Routinen und Publika der periodischen Massenpresse, für die er sein Leben lang schrieb, und auf vielfältige Weise geprägt von der visuellen Kultur seiner Zeit wird Theodor Fontane als gleichermaßen journalistisch versierter wie ästhetisch sensibler Grenzgänger erkennbar.
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Mass media and literature--Germany--History--19th century--Congresses - German literature--19th century--History and criticism--Congresses - German literature--19th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Times of History, Times of Nature : Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Anders Ekström;Staffan Bergwik;Anders Ekström;Staffan Bergwik
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the rela...
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Times of History, Times of Nature : Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
2022; Vol. 00005
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
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Time--History - Human ecology--Historiography - History--Periodization - Time--Philosophy - Natural history--Philosophy - ChangeContent provider:
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Robert E. Lee : A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
James I. Robertson Jr;James I. Robertson Jr
Robert E. Lee: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life ...
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Robert E. Lee : A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
2019
Robert E. Lee: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and work, including individuals, places, and events that shaped Lee's career as a Virginian, soldier, and peacemaker. The extensive A to Z section includes several hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning his life and work.Includes a detailed chronology detailing Robert E. Lee's life, family, and work.The A to Z section includes family members, campaigns in two different wars, cities as well as rivers and land areas of the time, military strategy and tactics, lieutenants and opponents, army organization, politics contending with war, plus seldom-mentioned topics such as geography, earthworks, desertion, personal health, and even the legendary “Rebel Yell.”The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and work.The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.
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Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
R. H. Winnick;R. H. Winnick
In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thous...
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Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
2019
In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson's poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (conscious or not, deliberate or not, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, Winnick writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson's reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. Coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson's art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepen the meaning of his poems. The new textual parallels Winnick has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels is thus a major new resource for Tennyson scholars and students, an indispensable adjunct to the 1987 edition of Tennyson's complete poems edited by Christopher Ricks.
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Clearing the Plains NEW EDITION : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
James Daschuk;James Daschuk
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning autho...
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Clearing the Plains NEW EDITION : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
2019; Vol. 00065
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Elizabeth A. Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers'Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others
