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Oswald Spengler and the Politics of DeclineOswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic. In Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, Ben Lewis completely transforms our understanding of Spengler by showing how well-connected this philosopher was and how, at every stage of his career,...
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What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa WolfArguably the most important--and influential--German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and...
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Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century GlobalizationPlacing coffee at the center of its analysis, Brewing Socialism links East Germany's consumption and food culture to its relationship to the wider world. Andrew Kloiber reveals the ways that everyday cultural practices surrounding coffee drinking not only connected East Germans to a global...
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The Chernobyl Effect: Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986-1990The 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe was not only a human and ecological disaster, but also a political-ideological one, severely discrediting Soviet governance and galvanizing dissidents in the Eastern Bloc. In the case of Poland, what began as isolated protests against the Soviet nuclear site grew...
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Dynamics of Emigration: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th CenturyAs a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking at Europe, North America, South America and Asia, Dynamics of Emigration asks about epistemic repercussions on the experience of exile...
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Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815--1914): Floating Communities in the Global WorldThis book explores the historical evolution of a Mediterranean village that radically changed its core self-sustaining activities in less than a century, from fishing for anchovies in the Ligurian Sea to rounding Cape Horn.Author: Leonardo ScavinoPublisher: BrillPublished: 08/26/2022Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004516533This title is...
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Frauensatiren der Frühen NeuzeitHerrschsüchtige Ehefrauen, wollüstige Jungfern, hässliche Vetteln, männerquälende Hexen und pseudogelehrte Frauen begegnen häufig in satirischen Schriften der Frühen Neuzeit. Indem sie misogyne Topoi und Traditionen aufgreifen und aktualisieren, erweisen sich Frauensatiren als bedeutendes transgenerisches Phänomen der deutschen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte im Kontext der europäischen...
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Navigating Women's Friendships in American Literature and CultureThis volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women's friendship in women's literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women's friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance....
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The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThis volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and Mathilda...
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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and FilmNeo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the...
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Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces Beyond the CentresThis book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and...
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Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and LettersFreedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented bothopportunity and restriction...
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Locating Milton: Places and PerspectivesLocating Milton: Places and Perspectives collects nine previously unpublished essays that examine Milton's works as the product of his unique intellectual experiences at home and abroad, while also tracing the ways in which those works themselves express the influence of his travel, hisreading, and...
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Late Modernism and ExpatriationHow did living abroad inflect writers' perspectives on social change in the countries of their birth and in their adopted homelands? How did writers reformulate ideas of social class, race, and gender in these new contexts? How did they develop innovations in form and...
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The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore in BaltimoreOccurring in a time of primitive medicine and inconsistent record-keeping, Poe's death has become one of the enduring mysteries of American literature. David F. Gaylin's book marks the first attempt to offer a comprehensive and balanced study of this historical event. After chronicling the...
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Restoration Drama and the Idea of LiteratureFrom 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however--including plays--flourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the way drama was written thereafter? As Katherine Mannheimer demonstrates, the plays of the...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body LanguageDickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers...
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Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century PhilippinesIn Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, flight, evasion, conflict, and warfare from across the breadth of the Philippine archipelago during the seventeenth century. The Spanish colonization of the Philippines that began...
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New York's Burned-Over District: A Documentary HistoryIn New York's Burned-over District, Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey invite readers to experience the early American revivals and reform movements through the eyes of the revivalists and the reformers themselves. Between 1790 and 1860, the mass migration of white settlers into...
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Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive EraFrom 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and especially newspapers espousing virulently anti-Catholic themes and calling on readers to recognize the danger of Catholicism to the American republic. By 1915 the most popular...
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