Search Results - "cultural"

Nature and Culture : Ethical Thought in the French Enlightenment by Crocker, Lester G.

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Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 / by Johns, Alessa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Cultural transfer and the Terrains Vastes.…”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…McIsaac -- Vivifying the uncanny : ethnographic mannequins and exotic performers in nineteenth-century German exhibition culture / A. Dana Weber.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / by Watts, Steven, 1952-

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Artists' Things : Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France / by Scott, Katie, 1958-, Williams, Hannah, 1980-

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Empire and Identity in Guizhou : Local Resistance to Qing Expansion / by Weinstein, Jodi L.

Subjects: “…SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural. bisacsh…”
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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Subjects: “…Companionate marriage Cross-cultural studies.…”
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The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

“…Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought…”
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Novel Translations : The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730 / by Wiggin, Bethany, 1972-

“…Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought…”
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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

“…Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought…”
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Marking Time : Romanticism and Evolution /

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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? …”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I -- The supplement of reading -- The hermeneutic tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher revisited : the revisionary tradition in romantic hermeneutics -- Part II -- A. Reading, culture, history -- The (un)persuaded reader : Coleridge's conversation with hermeneutics -- The eye/I of the other : self and audience in Wordsworth's lyrical ballads -- Wollstonecraft and Godwin : reading the secrets of the political novel -- B. …”
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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /

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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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