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Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern EgyptMedia of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology--the cassette tape--to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary individuals,...
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Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working ClassAs weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced-silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing-moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira...
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The New Modernist Novel: Literary Criticism and the Task of ReadingSince the late twentieth century, new understandings of modernism have come with new attention to a range of writers. Yet if the academic study of modernism took shape around an older, narrower selection of writers and works, how can its modes of reading be...
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Virginia Woolf and the AnthropoceneThe first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates...
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Virginia Woolf and CapitalismVirginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire...
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Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyThe early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared interest an imagined national dead. It argues that the publications of Edinburgh-based publisher William...
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The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold WarThe Korean War Novel examines the ways that novels written by Korean and Asian American writers have represented the Korean War. By studying the ideological contours of works by Richard E. Kim, Ahn Junghyo, Susan Choi, Ha Jin, Choi In-hun and Hwang Sok-yong, it...
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Queer Books of Late Victorian Print CultureQueer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts,...
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Futures of Enlightenment PoetryThis book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new...
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Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPropaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their...
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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban ModernityBen Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to...
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The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional TruthIs emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary texts...
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The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, Second EditionAn updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.Author: Anna Green, Kathleen TroupPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 08/31/2016Pages: 472Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN:...
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Romanticism and the Poetics of OrientationWhat happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations--those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the "Orient" in British Romantic...
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The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and WelfareThis book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with 'tramps', facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state's ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population....
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John F. Kennedy's Hidden Diary, Europe 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk Lemoyne BillingsPresenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his...
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Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865-1930What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's painter protagonist Avis Dobell know--and care--that her red shawl is dyed with desiccated beetles? Why might W.E.B. Du Bois's fictional sharecropper...
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German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond TestimonyShows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature. How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their...
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Resistance and Its Discontents in South Asian Women's FictionResistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.Author: Maryam...
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Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called "Islamic Caliphate" have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in the Middle East once again to the fore, this issue cannot be simply understood as...
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