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The Urbanization of Opera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

The Urbanization of Opera

Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?

The Newton Wars & the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 590

The Newton Wars & the Beginning of the French Enlightenment

Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by ...

Introduction to the History of French Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Introduction to the History of French Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1876
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900

Chronicles the emergence of a national feeling in the theatres of Northern and Eastern Europe from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera

An unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century.

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: A-K
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1044

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: A-K

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 547

Crossroads of Colonial Cultures

The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland’s ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – i...

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1044

The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Material Culture of Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Material Culture of Writing

The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies. Contributors to this volume each interrogate an object, set of objects, or writing environment to reveal the sociomaterial contexts from which writing emerges. The artifacts studied are both contemporary and historical, including ink, a Victorian hotel visitors’ book, Moleskine notebooks, museum conservators’ files, an early twentieth-century baby book, and a college campus makerspace. Close study of such artifacts not only enriches understanding of what counts as writing but also offers up the potential for rich current and historical inquiry into writing artifacts...

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 786

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature

Presenting European Romanticism as a phenomenon that superseded national borders, and in which Britain played a vital role, this Cambridge History illuminates myriad forms of cultural mediation and transfer, and reveals the period's productive tensions, synchronicities, and interactions within and across borders.