Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 220 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 233 p. — ISBN10: 1349509515; ISBN13: 978-1349509515 Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalisation in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most profound ideas and poetry on its basis....
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. — 532 p. — ISBN10: 3110427095; ISBN13: 978-3110427097. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. This volume casts light on the history,...
2nd Edition. — The University of Chicago Press, 1941, 1981. — 405 p. — ISBN: 0-226-03859-9. Preface to the First Edition ( 1941 ) One: The Biological Revolution Two: The Social Revolution Three: The Artistic Revolution
Harper Collins, 2000. — 899 p. — ISBN: 0-06-017586-9. Prologue: From Current Concerns to the Subject This Book Part One: From Luther's Ninety-five Theses to Boyle's " Invisible College " Part Two: From the Bog and Sand of Versailles to the Tennis Court Part Three: From Faust, Part 1, to the " Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 " Part Four: From " The Great Illusion " to "...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 383 p. This book develops the idea that modernity's defining characteristic is that of continual reassertion of ambivalence. In light of this argument the author revisits writers such as Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky adding new dimensions to them all as well as to our understanding of modernity. From author: "In All That Is Solid Melts Into Air , I define...
Belknap Press, 2018. — 360 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime book and magazines, law and order...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 242 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 239). Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until deep into the 18th century scientific works were written in it. It is still...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 321 p. Rolle Playing: “And the Word Became Flesh” Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge’s Translation of Archbishop Thoresby’s Injunctions Excitative Speech: Theories of Emotive Response from Richard Fitzralph to Margery Kempe Translating Scripture for Ma dame de Champagne: The Old French “Paraphrase” of Psalm 44 (Eructavit) The Mirror and the Rose:...
Princeton University Press, 2008 - 262 p. The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in...
The History Press, 2010. — 192 p. — eISBN: 978 0 7524 6229 5 This history covers all varieties of crime on the railways and how it has changed over the years, from assaults and robberies, to theft of goods, murder, vandalism, football and other crowd activity, suicide on the line, fraud and white collar crime. The book also looks at the use of railway crime in film and literature.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 214 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial...
London: SAGE Publications Ltd. — 1994. — 192 p. ISBN10: 0803989768; ISBN13: 978-0803989764. Translated by Patrick Camiller, with an Introduction by Bryan S. Turner. In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and...
UCL Press, 2018. — xx+418 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78735-393-0. In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. "Being Modern" builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — x, 252 p. This groundbreaking volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1978. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0-06-131928-7 The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have...
London: Yale University Press, 2000. — 370 p. — (Yale Intellectual History of the West Series) — ISBN: 0-300-08390-4. This book is concerned with the history of ideas in Europe in a particular period. Obviously this formula can do with some expansion. What it is meant to indicate is that the intention throughout has been an historical one: to place the reader in the position of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 329 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Practicing Motherhood When the Definition of “Family” Is Ambiguous. “The Interests Common to Us All” At the Nexus of Impossibility Ippolita’s Wager Extravagant Pretensions.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 320 p. In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010. — 273 p. The Empire of Osman. The Turkish Myth. The Sultan in his Seraglio. The Myth of the Despot. The Harem. The Myth of Sex. Exotic and Erotic. The Myth of the Arabian Nights. Peri and Prisoner. The Myth of the Bagno. Virgins Soft as Roses. The Myth of Lord Byron. Ghastly as a Tyrant’s Dream. The Myth of Resurgent Greece. Look Upon MyWorks,Ye...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 081221546X; ISBN13: 978-0812215465. In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market,...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2008. — 236 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 978-0-415-41544-6, 978-0-415-41546-0, 978-0-203-93378-7. The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyses what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 276 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey,...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 316 p. — ISBN10: 1138252948; ISBN13: 978-1138252943. Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of...
Praeger, 2011. — 322 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World) As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 312 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 322 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2001 — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0262531992; ISBN13: 978-0262531993. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half...
Springer Netherlands, 2014. — 251 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 213). This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on both conservative and radical writers in early modern England. It examines in detail the...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 498 p. Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern. In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 218 p. — (Material texts). What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer...
W. W. Norton & Company , 2003. — ISBN: 0-393-05760-7. The Case for Enlightenment: George Washington's False Teeth The News in Paris: An Early Information Society The Unity of Europe: Culture and Politeness The Pursuit of Happiness: Voltaire and Jefferson The Craze for America: Condorce and Brissot The Pursuit of Profit: Rousseauism on the Bourse The Sceletons in the Closet: How...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. — 639 p.— ISBN: 0-674-08785-2. Introduction: The Biography of a Book Juggling Editions Piracy and Trade War Bookmaking Diffusion Settling Accounts The Ultimate Encyclopédie Encyclopedism, Capitalism, and Revolution Biographical Notes Figures
Harvard University Press, 1968. — 233 p.— ISBN: 0-674-59621-2. Mesmerism and Popular Science The Mesmerism Movement The Radical Strain in Mesmerism Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory From Mesmer to Hugo Biographical Note
Praeger, 2012. — 248 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World). — ISBN 978-0-313-39343-3; ISBN 978-0-313-39344-0. The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 158 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, revealing the prominence within the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 273 p. Despite their apparent separation, law and literature have been closely linked fields throughout history. Linguistic creativity is central to the law, with literary modes such as narrative and metaphor infiltrating legal texts. Equally, legal norms of good and bad conduct, of identity and human responsibility, are reflected or...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 305 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). A Mystery Unfolds Books of Spells or Sacred Revelations? History, Religion, Culture: Contextualizing Sixteenth-Century Granada Prime Suspect: Alonso del Castillo Miguel de Luna — Hoaxer, Heretic or Hero? ‘As Precious as the Ark of the Covenant’ Unification in Opposition: The Strategy of Ambivalence...
Routledge, 2017. — 330 p. Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical...
Springer, 2013. — 214 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 209). The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as...
OR Books, 2019. — 274 p. 300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its initial release in 1719, discussions have surrounded the novel’s depiction of individual solitude and work, colonial and racial relations, and mankind’s relationship with the rest of the animal world. To this day, Crusoe’s...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 414 p. — ISBN: 0-300-10032-9. A Definition and a Provisional Justification A Different Cosmos A New Sense of Selfhood Toward a New Conception of Art The Moral Crisis The Origin of Modern Social Theories The New Science of History The Religious Crisis The Faith of the Philosophers Spiritual Continuity and Renewal
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 345 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 248). The Battle of Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays by leading scholars in the field. Part One includes figures and topics associated with Descartes, the chief idealist in the story, including Leibniz, Spinoza, and Malebranche; Part Two includes figures and topics that fall...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012. — 410 p. — ISBN10: 900421206X; ISBN13: 978-9004212060. In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 197 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Sebastianism, Millenarianism, and Nationalism The New Chosen People Venice: Portuguese King or Calabrian Charlatan? Lisbon: Rumor and Simmering Discontent Venice to Leghorn: Sanctifying the King Florence, Naples, and Sanlúcar: Descent into Purgatory Epilogue
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 229 p. This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland.
Routledge, 2011. — 376 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft). Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 — 219 p. — ISBN10: 1137007974; ISBN13: 978-1137007971. Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 232 p. With a new afterword by the author. Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino. In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Between the late 1880s and the onset of the Second World War, anti-slavery activism experienced a revival in Europe. Anti-slavery organizations in Britain, Italy, France, and Switzerland forged an informal international network to fight the continued existence of slavery and slave trading in Africa....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 260 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship. With the decline of patronage, the rise of the novel and the...
3. Auflage. - München: C.H.Beck, 1996. - 1570 S. - ISBN: 3406409881 Einleitung: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man Kulturgeschichte? (1927). Erstes Buch: Renaissance und Reformation – Von der schwarzen Pest bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg (von 1349 bis 1618). (1927). Zweites Buch: Barock und Rokoko – Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Siebenjährigen Krieg (1618 bis 1756)....
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 228 p. Here the author explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam. It...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 324 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This study develops a detailed reading of the interrelations between aesthetics, ideology, language, gender and political economy in two highly influential works by Edmund Burke: his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), and the Reflections on...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 080188277X; ISBN13: 978-0801882777 — (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von...
Macmillan, 1991. — x, 222 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-21746-5. "Rebuilding: the Art of Contemporary English Culture" is an effort to define the culture expressed in the literature and art of England between 1939 and the present. Gilpin uses examples from literature, criticism, art, architecture and popular music to articulate the national identity of contemporary Britain. Included are...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. — 246 p. — ISBN 0–674–89198–8; ISBN 0–674–89199–6 Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0231142218; ISBN13: 978-0231142212. In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0521785545; ISBN13: 978-0521785549 This is the only available systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. The book begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow: Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer...
Princeton University Press, 1996. - 309 p. By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had wrought? Some contemporary scientists...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1970. — 432 p. The Mechanical Age The Face of the Country Machinery Enterprise Communications Transition Responses Prophets and Sceptics Religion and Materialist Philosophy The Great Exhibition Art and Design John Ruskin William Morris Looking Forward Literature
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 282 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 221 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how...
Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2010. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0822344742; ISBN13: 978-0822344742. Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 273 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 256 p. The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch’s reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559: those of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants...
Third edition — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. — 720 p. — ISBN: 9780312554590, 0312554591. The Making of the West is a story of interactions — cross-cultural exchanges that span the globe, as well as the ongoing interactions between societies, cultures, governments, economies, religions, and ideas. To highlight these interactions and help students grasp the vital connections...
3rd edition. — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. — 523 p. — ISBN: 9780312556662, 0312556667. The Making of the West is a story of interactions — cross-cultural exchanges that span the globe, as well as the ongoing interactions between societies, cultures, governments, economies, religions, and ideas. To highlight these interactions and help students grasp the vital connections...
University of California Press, 2011. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-0-520-26771-8. "The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. — 50 p. A glance in cultural study essay on francais most unique and stylish time "Belle epoque" enlight historical background, culture patterns of Third republic in France and main fashion codes.
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 268 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). — ISBN: 978-1-107-01667-5. Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 — 599 p. — ISBN10: 0199592551; ISBN13: 978-0199592555. Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 326 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 707 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 140). This Life of Charles Kingsley is a detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study. Working from the original manuscript letters, the author has placed the events of KingsleyвЂs life against a social-historical-religious background, paying much...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 238 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Collaborative Dissent: Barbauld and Aikin’s Sibling Pamphlets “The A ikin School”: Adopting an Aesthetic Walking “Backwards and Forwards”: The Wordsworths in 1802/1807 Incorporating the Literary Family Generations: Conflict, Continuity, and the Genius Familiae Epilogue
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 201 p. Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular entertainment in France from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It situates conjurers within the broader culture of science and argues that...
Harvard University Press, 2012. - 352 p. Paper Memory tells the story of one man’s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Matthew Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher named Hermann Weinsberg, whose personal writings allow us to witness firsthand the great transformations of early modernity: the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 244 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Romantic Dharma charts the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the nineteenth century. Mark S. Lussier probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1472590074; ISBN13: 978-1472590077. The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary...
Routledge, 2015. Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories proliferated in early modern popular literature. The chapbooks included in this collection describe serious, horrifying and often deeply personal stories of murder and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 264 p. What made art modern? What is modern art? The Legends of the Modern demystifies the ideas and "legends" that have shaped our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern...
Routledge, 2005. — x, 148 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN 0-415-28064-8, 0-415-28065-6. True PDF In this book, Simon Malpas introduces a range of key theorists and theories that have, under the banner of the postmodern, sought in different ways to explore art, culture and the nature of thought in the contemporary world. He examines some of the most important and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 300 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 — 270 p. — ISBN10: 0804740712; ISBN13: 978-0804740715. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0816616043 (ISBN13: 9780816616046). Translation by Martha M. Houle. Foreword by Tom Conley. "What about power and its representations and, inversely, what about representation and its powers?" Louis Marin asks in his introduction to Le Portrait du roi, a book that centers on the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the role...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0801867789; ISBN13: 978-0801867781. In The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts , Cynthia Marshall reconceptualizes the place and function of violence in Renaissance literature. During the Renaissance an emerging concept of the autonomous self within art, politics, religion,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 205 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). From Jews to New Christians: Religious Minorities in the Making of Spanish Naples Conversos in Counter-Reformation Italy “El de los Catalanes”: The First Campaign against the New Christians, 1569–1582 The Rise of the Portuguese Merchant-Bankers, 1580–1648 The Inquisition against the Vaaz
Oxford: Berg, 2008. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1845203747; ISBN13: 978-1845203740 Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and the Americas. The consumption of silk, cotton cloth, spices, coffee, tea, china,...
State University of New York Press, 2011. — 222 p. — (SUNY Seris in Western Esoteric Traditions; Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 29). This new edition of Christopher McIntosh’s classic book on the Golden and Rosy Cross order is eagerly awaited. The order stands out as one of the most fascinating and influential of the high-degree Masonic and Illuminist groups that...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England - from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. The style of the medieval period, which...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 228 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 242). In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 200 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Books for Christmas, 1822–1860 How Victorians Read Christmas How Mr. Punch Stole Christmas: The Evolution of the Holiday in Periodicals Ghost Stories at Christmas The Expansion of Christmas Consumerism: Gifts and Commodities The Poetry of Christmas Modern Marketing of the Victorian Christmas
Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2005. Notas de reproducción original: Otra ed.: México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1998. — 359 p. En el último decenio se ha asistido a un notable incremento, cuantitativo y cualitativo, de los estudios sobre el periodo colonial hispanoamericano, tanto en el medio académico...
Brill, 2011. — 243 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 203). Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) was the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist and expert on Judaism. How do the different strands of his scholarship fit together? Is there a direct way from critical philology...
Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1985. — ISBN10: 0674868021; ISBN13: 978-0674868021 — (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 37) Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. — 360 p. In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii - or Dippy, as it’s known today - was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 370 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138525160; ISBN10: 1138525162 The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 176 p. The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early modern people reacted to the world of unseen...
Open Book Publishers, 2016. — 680 p. This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 205 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith. Changing the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 236 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by “object aesthetics,” an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 195 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale’s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 212 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Fellow feeling for animals, compassion, kindness, friendship, and affection are expressed in every time and place and culture, in primordial artifacts,Egyptian tombs, Homer’s description of the old dog Argos, as much as in Henry Moore’s 1980 drawings of sheep. Perhaps no argument for kindness to...
The University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 358 p. The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - 140 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Introduction: Manzoni and the Making of Italy From History to Fiction A Source and Its Archive A Conflict of Wills Concerning a Capitulary From Invention to History Afterword: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
Bucknell University Press, 2011. — 256 p. The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radical eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars discover that twenty-fi...
Reaktion Books, 2011. — 289 p. Note: Illustrations available only in print version. The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. L. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achievements of the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jesu). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of...
Routledge, 2011. — 249 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft). Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 315 p. — (Material texts). Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 264 p. Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a "spatial" way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in thought that occurred. He describes how, while teaching and public debate continued to...
Routledge, 2017. — 486 p. — ISBN: 9781315613161. "The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe" marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 236 p. — ISBN: 978-90-4851-571-4. Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 279 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Paths to Peace Phases of Peace Mechanisms of Peace Brokers of Peace Themes of Peace Communities of Peace Practicalities of Peace
Oxford University Press, 2013. - 288 p. An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at...
HarperPress, 2012. — 1656 p. A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000 — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0521661242; ISBN13: 978-0521661249. Ronald Schleifer offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. His study analyzes the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that this transition...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 258 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) In Romanticism and Pleasure nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Joel Faflak, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 320 p. The first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 238 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Introduction: Popular Medievalism and the Romantic Ethos Rites and Rights: The Topography of Ancient British Law Taking Medievalism Home: The National Melody Medievalism Onstage in the French Revolutionary Era The Radical Bestiary Buried Alive: Gothic Reading and Medievalist Subjectivity Scottish...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 405 p. The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans...
Harvard University Press, 2011. - 392 p. In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the G?vaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story.In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep....
The University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 299 p. "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 294 p. British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. The essays in the volume demonstrate how the texts produced by the Jewish Enlightenment provided a significant resource for romantic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 334 p. Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East....
Transaction Publishing, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-7658-0136-1. Preface by Roger Kimball Introduction by Andrew Irvine Part One: So You Think You're an Egalitarian? Part Two: Why the World is the Way It Is Part Three :Reclaiming the Jungle
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 370 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its time. Yet satirists and parodists were influenced by and responded to advertising, while copywriters...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0295993200; ISBN13: 978-0295993201. Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 388 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 260 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Female Monasticism Revived: Foundations and Vocations The Monastic Family: Order and Disorder in the Cloister The Monastic Economy: Prayer and Manual Labour Beyond the Cloister: Patronage, Politics and Society Active in Contemplation: Spiritual Choices and Practices
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse...
Praeger, 2008. — 368 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World) While few intellectuals today accept the notion that the world is literally about to end through a prophesied supernatural act, between 1500 and 1800 many of Europe's and America's most creative minds did believe it. Perhaps most surprisingly, apocalyptic expectations played a central role during this period...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 276 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 256 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the...
5th edition. — Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 1656 p. — ISBN10: 1405190752; ISBN13: 978-1405190756. This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 254 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Introduction Nursing Mothers and Sanctified Sisters: Women’s Political Behavior after the Restoration Nursing Mothers: Dissenting Women and Opposition Politics A Dangerous Woman: Mary Speke, her Family, and the Puritan Gentry Sanctified Sisters: Aphra Behn and the Culture of Nonconformity An...
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