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A Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland
Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age tale, Jean Christoph. In A Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland William Thomas Starr Starr painstakingly collects the information on all writings by and about this prolific author through 1949. Organized into two parts, the bibliography lists the wr…
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- 9780810138711
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- 168 halaman
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- 800 STA c
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the cir…
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- 9783110495416
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- 367 halaman
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- 900 MUL c
Before Einstein : The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle in Literature and Cu…
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
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- 9781783086238
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- 222 halaman
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- Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
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- 800 THR b
Narrating North American Borderlands : Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim …
The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the U…
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- 9783653983531
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- 227 halaman
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- Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik, 64
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- 800 MAY n
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently. Faverty’s critique of Arnold draws par…
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- 9780810138391
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- 248 halaman
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- 800 FAV m
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction : Victorian Afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 9780230228580
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- IX, 222 halaman
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- 800 MIT h
Marking Time : Romanticism and Evolution
Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth centur…
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- 9781442644304
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- 336 halaman
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- 800 MAR
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages
This volume is the first in a new series entitled Reading Medieval Sources, examining different genres of sources in the Middle Ages, and this book focuses on ways of studying medieval money, and the most direct manifestation of money: coinage. It is intended to introduce readers to a range of approaches to a subject that has, traditionally, been seen as somewhat specialised domain of highly te…
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- 9789004383098
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- 909.080
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17t…
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of the archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors pointe…
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- 9789004354982
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Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
Lionel Trilling was one of the twentieth century’s most widely read and influential American literary critics. Mark Krupnick traces Trilling’s career from the 1920s through the 1970s, following the shifting intellectual and ideological currents in his thought. Krupnick places Trilling’s criticism and fiction in the context of his New York intellectual group, illuminating the connection be…
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- 9780810139442
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- 216 halaman
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- 800 KRU l
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