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Author: David Burrow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317321669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.
Author: A. Fishzon
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-11
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1137023457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense approach to public life and private expression - the 'melodramatic imagination' - is at the center of this study. Previously, scholars have only indirectly addressed the everyday appropriation of melodramatic aesthetics in Russia, choosing to concentrate on canonical texts and producers of mass culture. Collective fantasies and affects are daunting objects of study, difficult to render, and almost impossible to prove empirically. Music and art historians, with some notable exceptions, have been reluctant to discuss reception for similar reasons. By analyzing the artifacts and practices of a commercialized opera culture, author Anna Fishzon provides a solution to these challenges. Her focus on celebrity and fandom as features of the melodramatic imagination helps illuminate Russian modernity and provides the groundwork for comparative studies of fin-de-siècle European popular and high culture, selfhood, authenticity, and political theater.
Author: A. Byrne
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-08-28
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1137311320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.
Author: W. McGrath
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-18
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1137369485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
Author: T. Lacy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1137042621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that fostered a shared civic culture.
Author: A. Malhotra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-06-18
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1137011548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period.
Author: Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 113749767X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant that has been only recently identified by modern science, but instead a categorical mode of assessing human ability and merit. Second, as a concept with specific definitions and resonances, genius has performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it had a historical presence.
Author: C. Loader
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1137031158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period.
Author: L. Szefel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-09
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0230118976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSzefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by Progressive-era capitalism.
Author: L. Kontler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1137371722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation.
