Beyond the Bauhaus : Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 / by Barnstone, Deborah Ascher

Subjects: “…Modernism (Aesthetics) fast (OCoLC)fst01024439 15839…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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The Making of the Humanities, Volume III : The Modern Humanities /

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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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The Hegemony of Heritage : Ritual and the Record in Stone / by Stein, Deborah L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hindu Temple in diachronic context -- Temple as geographic marker : mapping the tenth-century Sectarian landscape -- Temple as catalyst : renovation and religious merit in the field -- Temple as royal abode : the regal, the real, and the ideal in fifteenth-century Mewr -- Temple as palimpsest : icons and temples in the Sultanate era -- Temple as ritual center : tenth-century traces of ritual and the record in stone -- Temple as praxis : agency in the field in Southern Rajasthan -- Temple as legal body : aesthetics and the legislation of antiquity -- Conclusion heritage and conflict : Medieval Indian Temple as commodified.…”
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Creolizing Europe : Legacies and Transformations /

Table of Contents: “…: 'Sable-Saffron' Venus, Rachel Christie and aesthetic creolization -- Re-imagining Manchester as a queer and haptic brown Atlantic space -- Queering diaspora space, creolizing counter-publics : on British South Asian gay and bisexual men's negotiations of sexuality, intimacy and marriage -- On being Portuguese : luso-tropicalism, migrations and the politics of citizenship -- Comics, dolls and the disavowal of racism : learning from Mexican Mestizaje -- Creolizing citizenship? …”
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Improvising Cinema / by Mouëllic, Gilles

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Tempest : Geometries of Play / by Ruggill, Judd Ethan

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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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Parameters of Disavowal : Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema / by An, Jinsoo, 1968-

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On Civic Republicanism : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics /

Table of Contents: “…Unity in multiplicity : agency and aesthetics in German republicanism / Douglas Moggach.…”
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Divided Dreamworlds? : The Cultural Cold War in East and West /

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