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Defining cultural history, Peter Burke claims, "is rather like
trying to catch a cloud in a butterfly net." In this volume, Anna
Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major
theories within this most diverse of historical fields. "Cultural
History" explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds
of human consciousness, as reflected in elite intellectual and
aesthetic works as well as everyday social beliefs and practices.
The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the
major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This
innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to
fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the
postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and
psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative,
gender, public history and the history of the emotions. Each
chapter begins with a succinct description of the ideas integral to
a particular theory. The authors then explore the insights and
controversies arising from the application of this model, drawing
upon debates and examples from around the world. Each chapter
concludes with a representative example from a historian writing
within this conceptual framework. This newly revised edition of the
highly successful textbook is the ideal basis for an introductory
course in history and theory for students of history at all levels.
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The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the
major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This
innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to
fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the
postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and
psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative,
gender, public history and the history of the emotions. Each
chapter begins with a succinct description of the ideas integral to
a particular theory. The authors then explore the insights and
controversies arising from the application of this model, drawing
upon debates and examples from around the world. Each chapter
concludes with a representative example from a historian writing
within this conceptual framework. This newly revised edition of the
highly successful textbook is the ideal basis for an introductory
course in history and theory for students of history at all levels.
-- .
The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that
nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in
paintings, but also in other forms of visual culture and in diverse
written discourses of the period-are critical for understanding
modernity. Whilst such well-worn signifiers for modernity as the
city, the dandy and the prostitute have been well mined, childhood
and adolescence have not. Paintings of the young produced in France
from 1848 to 1886, Green contends, inform not only our
understanding of modern life but also our perception of modernist
or avant-garde painting. Figuring largely are Manet and the
Impressionists, as well as a gamut of more traditional painters of
children who are crucial in providing context for the avant garde.
Because modernity is an essentially urban phenomenon, Green's focus
is primarily on the city, usually Parisian, child. The painted
youth of her study are organized initially by class and gender.
Then the chapters are structured according to themes (parent-child
relations, modes of discipline, work, education, and play, the
spectacle, sexuality) that straddle the congruences among the
book's triple trajectory: the young, their modernist
representations, and the experience of modernity. Green's
interdisciplinary approach ensures that this book will be of
interest not only to art historians but to all those concerned with
the cultural and social history of childhood.
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book
to examine the connections linking two major American writers of
the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In
twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton
scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor
Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts,
interests, and aesthetic techniques. Thematic sections highlight
modernist trends found in each author's works. To begin, Peter Hays
and Ellen Andrews Knodt argue for reading Wharton as a modernist
writer, noting how her works feature characteristics that critics
customarily credit to a younger generation of writers, including
Hemingway. Since Wharton and Hemingway each volunteered for
humanitarian medical service in World War I, then drew upon their
experiences in subsequent literary works, Jennifer Haytock and
Milena Radeva-Costello analyze their powerful perspectives on the
cataclysmic conflict traditionally viewed as marking the advent of
modernism in literature. In turn, Cecilia Macheski and Sirpa
Salenius consider the authors' passionate representations of Italy,
informed by personal sojourns there, in which they observed its
beautiful landscapes and culture, its liberating contrast with the
United States, and its period of fascist politics. Linda
Wagner-Martin, Lisa Tyler, and Anna Green focus on the complicated
gender politics embedded in the works of Wharton and Hemingway, as
evidenced in their ideas about female agency, sexual liberation,
architecture, and modes of transportation. In the collection's
final section, Dustin Faulstick, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, and
Parley Ann Boswell address suggestive intertextualities between the
two authors with respect to the biblical book of Ecclesiastes,
their serialized publications in Scribner's Magazine, and their
affinities with the literary and cinematic tradition of noir.
Together, the essays in this engaging collection prove that
comparative studies of Wharton and Hemingway open new avenues for
understanding the pivotal aesthetic and cultural movements central
to the development of American literary modernism.
Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on
which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as
true of scientific empiricism as it is of poststructualism.
The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to
the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence
on the study of history in the twentieth century. Ranging from
Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each
chapter begins with an introduction to the particular school, the
main protagonists, the critics, and is followed by a useful section
of further readings. From the classic, such as G. R. Elton's
"England Under the Tudors" and E. P. Thompson's "The Making of the
English Working Class," to the recent, such as Henrietta Whiteman's
"White Buffalo Woman" and Judith Walkowitz's "City of Dreadful
Delight," the diverse selections collected here bring together the
leading historians and theorists of the century.
Comprehensive and accessible to undergraduates, The Houses of
History is ideally suited to classroom use.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of
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Title: Doctor Izard. A novel.]Publisher: British Library,
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Green, Anna; 1894, etc.]. 8 . 012629.f.32.
A resource for arts therapists and other clinicians on working with
people who have committed sexual offences. There is a strong focus
on the value of establishing a therapeutic relationship involving
non-verbal media as a cornerstone, drawing upon current research
and practice. Emphasis is placed on working with transference and
counter-transference, being trauma-informed, and making use of
effective supervision. This group of offenders can benefit hugely
from the provision of arts therapies, and this book provides
valuable experiences of working with people who have committed
sexual offences.
The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that
nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in
paintings, but also in other forms of visual culture and in diverse
written discourses of the period-are critical for understanding
modernity. Whilst such well-worn signifiers for modernity as the
city, the dandy and the prostitute have been well mined, childhood
and adolescence have not. Paintings of the young produced in France
from 1848 to 1886, Green contends, inform not only our
understanding of modern life but also our perception of modernist
or avant-garde painting. Figuring largely are Manet and the
Impressionists, as well as a gamut of more traditional painters of
children who are crucial in providing context for the avant garde.
Because modernity is an essentially urban phenomenon, Green's focus
is primarily on the city, usually Parisian, child. The painted
youth of her study are organized initially by class and gender.
Then the chapters are structured according to themes (parent-child
relations, modes of discipline, work, education, and play, the
spectacle, sexuality) that straddle the congruences among the
book's triple trajectory: the young, their modernist
representations, and the experience of modernity. Green's
interdisciplinary approach ensures that this book will be of
interest not only to art historians but to all those concerned with
the cultural and social history of childhood.
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