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Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750: Objects, Affect…
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and explor…
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In His Milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias
Collected in memory of the Vermeer scholar and Yale economist J. Michael Montias, these essays take into account the latest trends in the field and provide new data on a wide range of topics in Netherlandish art. Themes include the reception of paintings and architecture; art collecting as interpreted through inventories and other documents that reveal modes of display; relationships between pa…
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Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond: From the Kunstkammer to t…
An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the north American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? This book is ab…
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Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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What Literature Knows
This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss liter…
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Wolfgang von Weisl: Schauspiel und Roman im Zeichen des modernen politischen …
Der Band präsentiert zwei von dem Wiener Zionisten Wolfgang von Weisl verfasste historisch-fiktionale Werke: das Schauspiel Erlöser und den Roman Der Anfang der Wandlung Israels, deren Zentralfiguren, Simon Bar Kochba und der aus Russland nach Palästina eingewanderte Joseph Trumpeldor, als glorifizierte Nationalhelden und Märtyrer bis heute im kollektiven Gedächtnis Israels gegenwärtig si…
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Framing French Culture
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
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Studi greci e latini per Giuseppina Matino
Il volume raccoglie ventinove studi greci e latini dedicati all’illustre grecista Giuseppina Matino da partecipanti alla Sezione di Scienze dell’Antichità del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. I saggi spaziano dalla lingua e letteratura greca alla lingua e letteratura latina, alla filologia classica, alla papirologia, alla letteratura la…
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Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the 18th century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s fut…
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