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This book explores the connections that Jose Joaquin de Mora
(1783-1864) established with Britain, where he was exiled from 1823
to 1826 and was to return as diplomat in the following decades. His
admiration for the British materialised in a series of cultural
transfers aimed at the promotion and diffusion of British culture
in Spain and Spanish America. He contributed to the popularization
of Bentham's utilitarianism, the principles of British classical
economy, and the philosophy of the Scottish School of Common Sense;
he translated texts by Scott and Shakespeare and wrote an
unfinished version of Byron's Don Juan; and, above all, he
presented Britain as a model for the political, economic, and
literary regeneration of the Hispanic world.
In Zeiten zunehmender Bedrohungen fur das aktuell gelebte Europa
stellt dieser Band mit Beitragen internationaler Forscher(Innen)
aus multidisziplinarer Perspektive literarische Konzepte fur eine
europaische Idee vor. Kontinuitatslinien und Bruche zwischen stark
divergierenden Ansatzen, die sich zu einem Selbstverstandnis
Europas erganzen, werden darin anhand literarischer und
publizistischer Werke untersucht, da diese auch gewagte Experimente
durchzufuhren und im Einsatz zu zeigen vermoegen. Dabei werden auch
aktuellste Themen beruhrt, die demonstrieren, dass Europa sich
selbst standig neu erfindet, um sich an neue Bedingungen
anzupassen, was den europaischen Raum zu einem deutlich groesseren
Gebilde als die Summe seiner Teile macht.
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An Evensong
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Nathaniel A Schmidt; Foreword by Ethan Lewis
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The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late
1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in
the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in
the early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the philosophes were
dominant in key literary institutions such as the Comedie-Francaise
and the Academie francaise, and their enlightened programme became
more widely accepted. Many of the essays in this volume focus on
Voltaire, revealing him as a writer of fiction and polemic who,
during this period, became increasingly interested in questions of
justice and jurisprudence. Other essays examine the literary
activities of Voltaire's contemporaries, including Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Chamfort, Retif, Sedaine and Marmontel. It is no
exaggeration to describe the 1760s as Voltaire's decade. It is he
more than any other author who set the agenda and held the public's
attention during this seminal period for the development of
Enlightenment ideas and values. Voltaire's dominance of the 1760s
can be summed up in a single phrase: it is in these years that he
became the 'patriarch of Ferney'.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many
of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps.
Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and
cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their
environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new
mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major
cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod
Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their
later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the
relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities
covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New
Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and
Washington.
"Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to a range of visual and
textual material, this engaging and illuminating collection compels
twenty-first-century readers to take a fresh look at the multiple
ways in which readers and reading were represented in the long
nineteenth century." (Professor Julia Thomas, Cardiff University)
The long nineteenth century saw a prolific increase in the number
of books being produced and read and, consequently, in the number
of visual and textual discourses about reading. This collection
examines a range of visual and textual iconographies of readers
produced during this period and maps the ways in which such
representations engaged with crucial issues of the time, including
literary value, gender formation, familial relationships, the
pursuit of leisure and the understanding of new technologies.
Gauging the ways in which Victorians conceptualized reading has
often relied on textual sources, but here we recognize and
elaborate the importance of visual culture - often in dialogue with
textual evidence - in shaping the way people read and thought about
reading. This book brings together historians, literary scholars
and art historians using a range of methodologies and theoretical
approaches to address ideas of readership found in fine art,
photography, arts and craft, illustration, novels, diaries and
essays. The volume shows how the field of readership studies can be
enriched and furthered through an interdisciplinary approach and,
in particular, through an exploration of the visual iconography of
readers and reading.
Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German
Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last
two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the
challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of
man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are
becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth's future. Among
the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change,
accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use.
What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and
artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume
bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the
Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.
Richard Kaeuper's career has examined three salient concerns of
medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious
piety, and public order and government - most directly in three of
his monographs: War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988),
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy
Warriors (Penn, 2009). Kaeuper approaches historical questions with
an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human
ideas and ideals, and he has worked to untangle the various threads
holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit
violence, and lay piety. The present festschrift in his honor
brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with
those same concerns in medieval society from a variety of
perspectives. Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Elizabeth A.R.
Brown, Samuel A. Claussen, David Crouch, Thomas Devaney, Paul
Dingman, Daniel P. Franke, Richard Firth Green, Christopher Guyol,
John D. Hosler, William Chester Jordan, Craig M. Nakashian, W. Mark
Ormrod, Russell A. Peck, Anthony J. Pollard, Michael Prestwich,
Sebastian Rider-Bezerra, Leah Shopkow, and Peter W. Sposato.
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a
broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an
indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this
book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the
aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana
feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging
from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldua to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma
Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano
indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to
U.S. and British modernist writing.
By highlighting intertextualities such as those between Anzaldua
and D. H. Lawrence, Contreras critiques the resilience of
primitivism in the Mexican borderlands. She questions established
cultural perspectives on "the native," which paradoxically
challenge and reaffirm racialized representations of Indians in the
Americas. In doing so, Blood Lines brings a new understanding to
the contradictory and richly textured literary relationship that
links the projects of European modernism and Anglo-American
authors, on the one hand, and the imaginary of the
post-revolutionary Mexican state and Chicano/a writers, on the
other hand.
Consigned to oblivion by the Franco regime and traditional
historiography, the Other Silver Age Spain (1868-1939) encompasses
an array of cultural forms that are coming back into view today
with the aid of mass digitization. This volume examines the period
through a digital lens, reinterpreting literary and cultural
history with the aid of twenty-first-century technologies that
raise aesthetic and ethical questions about historical memory, the
canon, and the archive. Scholars based in Spain, Germany, and the
United States explore modern Spanish culture in the context of
digital corpora, archives, libraries, maps, networks, and
visualizations-tools that spark dialogues between the past and the
present, research and teaching, and Hispanism in the academy and
society at large.
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Second Sky
(Hardcover)
Tania Runyan
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Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World, A Festschrift in Honor
of Professor Zhang Longxi collects twelve essays by eminent
scholars across several disciplines in Chinese and cross-cultural
studies to celebrate Zhang Longxi's scholarly achievements. As a
leading scholar from post-Cultural Revolution China, Zhang Longxi's
academic career has set a milestone in cross-cultural studies
between China and the world. With an introduction by Qian Suoqiao,
and a prologue by Zhang Longxi himself, the volume features
masterly essays by Ronald Egan, Torbjoern Loden, Haun Saussy,
Lothar von Falkenhausen, and Hwa Yol Jung among others, which will
make significant contributions to Sinological and cross-cultural
studies of themselves on the one hand, and demonstrate Zhang
Longxi's friendships and scholarly impact on the other.
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