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Aesthetics and subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche / by Bowie, Andrew, 1952-

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Ingenuous subjection compliance and power in the eighteenth-century domestic novel / by Thompson, Helen, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Ingenuous subjection and the novel.…”
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The vegetative soul from philosophy of nature to subjectivity in the feminine / by Miller, Elaine P., 1962-

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Pastiche, fashion, and galanterie in Chardin's genre subjects : looking smart / by Radisich, Paula

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The cultural work of empire The Seven Years' War and the imagining of the Shandean state / by Watts, Carol

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German idealism the struggle against subjectivism, 1781-1801 / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805 by Wallace, Miriam L.

Table of Contents: “…Duplicitous subjects and the tyranny of ideology: Godwin's Things as they are; or Caleb Williams (1794) and Fenwick's Secresy (1795) -- Constructing revolutionary subjects: Wollstonecraft's rational citizen and Hays's "female philosopher" -- Revolutionary masculinities in Anna St. …”
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The self as muse narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830 /

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The self and it novel objects and mimetic subjects in eighteenth-century England / by Park, Julie, 1970-

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Fair exotics xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850 / by Sudan, Rajani

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Imperial affliction eighteenth-century British poets and their twentieth-century lives / by Simmons, Thomas, 1956-

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The politics of giving in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata : donors, lenders, subjects, and citizens / by Grieco, Viviana L., 1969-

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Gossip, sexuality and scandal in France (1610-1715) by Hammond, Nicholas, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Defining gossip in early modern France -- The Italian vice -- Scandalous subjects -- La Princesse de Clèves (1678): gossip as text.…”
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Force a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropology / by Menke, Christoph, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination -- Praxis: the practice of the subject -- Play: the operation of force -- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis -- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention -- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.…”
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Urban space as heritage in late colonial Cuba : classicism and dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828 / by Niell, Paul B., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The Plaza de Armas and spatial reform -- Classicism and reformed subjectivity -- Fashioning heritage on the colonial Plaza de Armas -- The dissonance of colonial heritage -- Sugar, slavery, and disinheritance.…”
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The Writing Public : Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France / by Bond, Elizabeth Andrews

Table of Contents: “…The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution.…”
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Scepter of Judah the Jewish autonomy in the eighteenth-century Crown Poland / by Ḳaliḳ, Yehudit

Table of Contents: “…The development of Jewish autonomy -- The structure of Jewish autonomy -- Jewish demography and geography -- The administrative structure of the urban Jewish population -- The administrative structure of the rural Jewish population -- The "leaseholders' belt" -- Jewish political leadership -- A case study: the Jewish subjects of Kazimierz Granowski, Voivode of Rawa.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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Unveiling the harem elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo / by Fay, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue.…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others: civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject: Martin Martin's travel writings -- The reemergence of the primitive other? …”
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