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Accessories to modernity fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France /
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When Broadway was the runway theater, fashion, and American culture /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The octopus and the matinee girl -- The "department store theater" and the gendering of consumption -- "The cult of clothes" and the performance of class -- Fashioning the modern woman -- The theatrical fashion show on Broadway and Sixth Avenue.…”
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Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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China's last imperial frontier late Qing expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan borderlands /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Qing Discourse and Capability in Eastern Tibet -- Frontier Society and Power -- Lu Chuanlin's "Great Game" in Nyarong -- Frontier Incident and War Making -- State Violence and Local Resistance : the Kham War -- "Regularization" Reconsidered : Variants of Gaitu Guiliu in Northern Kham -- Fashioning an "Inner Region beyond the Pass" -- Developing the West : Opening Kham Lands, Mines and Young Minds -- Character List.…”
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Jewish renaissance and revival in America essays in memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Common bonds: a collective portrait -- On the road to renaissance: the young mens' Hebrew associations of New York and Philadelphia, 1877-1883 -- A renaissance of Jewish readers in Victorian Philadelphia -- Preserving the past to fashion the future: the editorial board of the Jewish Encyclopedia -- Leah's hope: the legacy of German-Jewish humanism in America --- Revival through celebrity: American fame, Jewish identity, and the early 1960s -- Renewal and havurah: American movements, European roots.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? …”
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Out of place Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity /
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…"British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning -- Ch. 3. The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America literary and cultural practices /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…"These Human Flowers": Sentimentalizing Children and Fashioning Maternal Authority in Godey's Lady's Book / Kara Clevinger -- "The Medicine of Sympathy": Maternal Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America / Ken Parille -- The Ethics of Postbellum Melancholy in the Poetry of Sarah Piatt / D. …”
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