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The origins of criticism literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece / by Ford, Andrew Laughlin

Table of Contents: “…Archaic roots of classical aesthetics -- pt. 2. The invention of poetry -- pt. 3. …”
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Sizhu instrumental music of South China ethos, theory and practice / by Thrasher, Alan R. (Alan Robert)

Table of Contents: “…Sizhu music in South China -- Yuelun: the Confucian Foundation -- Qingshang music and the historic legacy -- Yuelu: music theory and practice -- Baban and the sizhu repertoire -- Bianzou: performance practice and aesthetics.…”
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China's contested capital architecture, ritual, and response in Nanjing / by Musgrove, Charles D., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The capital established -- Visions of grandeur in the capital plan -- Administrative aesthetics and "architectural revolution" -- The necropolis of Nanjing -- Lessons in allure: celebrations of state in the capital -- Views from the street: development, defiance & discipline.…”
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Women's writing in twenty-first-century France life as literature /

Table of Contents: “…Experiments, interfaces, aesthetics.…”
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Romanticism and the rise of the mass public by Franta, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the regime of publicity -- Public opinion from Burke to Byron -- Wordsworth's audience problem -- Keats and the review aesthetic -- Shelley and the politics of political poetry -- The art of printing and the law of libel -- The right of private judgment.…”
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Slavery and sentiment the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / by Levecq, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.…”
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Contemporary Francophone African writers and the burden of commitment by Cazenave, Odile M. (Odile Marie), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Francophone African writers engaging in new aesthetics -- The fashioning of an engaging literature: the publishing industry, the internet, and criticism -- Conclusion. the possibilities of artistic commitment.…”
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Rewriting white race, class, and cultural capital in nineteenth-century America / by Vogel, Todd, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Speaking to the whiteness of the brain -- William Apess's theater and a "Native" American history -- Sharpening the pen : racial and aesthetic transformation -- Anna Julia Cooper and the Black orator -- Edith Eaton plays the Chinese water lily.…”
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Cruel delight enlightenment culture and the inhuman / by Steintrager, James A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The inhuman -- The model of moral monstrosity -- The paradox of inhumanity -- Curiosity killed the cat -- Animals and the mark of the human -- The monstrous face of curiosity -- The bedside manner of the Marquis de Sade -- Science and insensibility -- The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.…”
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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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The body economic life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel / by Gallagher, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…The Romantics and the political economists -- Bioeconomics and somaeconomics : life and sensation in classical political economy -- Hard times and the somaeconomics of the early Victorians -- The bioeconomics of Our mutual friend -- Daniel Deronda and the too much of literature -- Malthusian anthropology and the aesthetics of sacrifice in Scenes of clerical life.…”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self.…”
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Colonial voices the discourses of empire / by Nayar, Pramod K.

Table of Contents: “…Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans.…”
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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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Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / by Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Film policy and film aesthetics as cultural archives -- Acts of transition: the British cinematograph films acts of 1927 and 1938 -- Empire and embarrassment: colonial forms of knowledge about cinema -- Realism and empire -- Romance and empire -- Modernism and empire -- Historical romances and modernist myths in Indian cinema.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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The Jewish radical right Revisionist Zionism and its ideological legacy / by Kaplan, Eran

Table of Contents: “…Between left and right : Revisionism in Zionist politics -- Monism : Revisionism's ontological philosophy -- A mobilized society : Revisionist economics -- The state of pleasure : Revisionist aesthetics -- Land, space and gender : visions of the future Hebrew state -- Neither east nor west : Revisionism and the Mediterranean world.…”
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Poetry's Afterlife : Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…[1.] On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? …”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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Let it shine! the emergence of African American Catholic worship / by McGann, Mary E.

Table of Contents: “…McGann -- Constructing an African American Catholic liturgical aesthetic / Ronald D. Harbor.…”
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