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Eighteenth-century Russia
This volume brings together forty papers from the Study Group's very successful international conference held in Wittenberg in 2004. The contributors include scholars from Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy and the US: papers are written in English and in Russian. Topics range widely over the life of the Empire and its emerging modern society, institutions and discourses. The volume brings together new research on literature and its social context, on cultural models and reception, on social groups and individuals, on history, law and economy: it offers an exciting interdisciplinary insight into Imperial Russia in the 'long' eighteenth century.
The Routledge History of Loneliness
The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance.
Physiognomy in the European Novel
After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the physiognomical background previously delineated. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony an...
Lissabons Fall - Europas Schrecken
Die seit 1925 erscheinenden Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte bilden eine der traditionsreichsten historischen Buchreihen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie enthalten Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte des Christentums aller Epochen, veröffentlichen aber auch Arbeiten aus verwandten Disziplinen wie beispielsweise der Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte oder Literaturwissenschaft. Kennzeichnend für die Reihe ist der durchgängige Anspruch, historisch-methodische Präzision mit systematischen Kontextualisierungen des jeweiligen Gegenstandes zu verbinden. In jüngerer Zeit erscheinen verstärkt Arbeiten zu Themen einer Kultur- und Ideengeschichte des Christentums in einem methodisch offenen christentumsgeschichtlichen Horizont.
Geflügelte Worte
Reproduction of the original: Geflügelte Worte by Georg Büchmann
Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert
Das Erdbeben von Lissabon am 1. November 1755 markiert im kulturellen Gedächtnis Europas eine Zäsur. Aus Anlass des 250. Jahrestages dieses Ereignisses haben Geologen und Theologen, Philosophen, Wissenschaftshistoriker, Kunst- und Medienhistoriker, Literaturwissenschaftler und Versicherungshistoriker aus Europa und den USA danach gefragt, wie aus dem Ereignis die Katastrophe von europäischem Ausmaß wurde. Die vor allem an Voltaires" Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne"und Rousseaus Erwiderung geknüpfte Sichtweise, dass mit Lissabon der Optimismus der Aufklärung erschüttert worden sei, wird überprüft. Der Band zeigt, wie aus Naturereignissen Medienereignisse werden, wie unterschiedlich und vielfach widersprüchlich Katastrophen wahrgenommen, bewertet und kommuniziert werden und wie sich im 18. Jahrhundert eine spezifisch moderne Katastrophensemantik und ein spezifisch modernes Risikobewusstsein herausbilden. Erst dadurch wird das Erdbeben von Lissabon zu einem ikonischen Moment für die kulturelle Selbstverständigung Europas bis heute
