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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.…”
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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.…”
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Local Portraiture Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers /
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Local Portraiture Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers /
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…6 Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing the House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne -- 7 The Labours of the Passions in the Rape of the Lock -- 8 Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose -- 9 Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad -- Conclusion -- Index…”
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Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…6 Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing the House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne -- 7 The Labours of the Passions in the Rape of the Lock -- 8 Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose -- 9 Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad -- Conclusion -- Index…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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Re-thinking Renaissance objects
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley -- Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley -- Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper -- Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek -- New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves -- Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall -- Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy -- Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.…”
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Re-thinking Renaissance objects
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley -- Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley -- Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper -- Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek -- New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves -- Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall -- Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy -- Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.…”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz -- Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig -- Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock -- Encounters on stage. …”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz -- Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig -- Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock -- Encounters on stage. …”
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Individualism the cultural logic of modernity /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer -- A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski -- Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner -- "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan -- Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise -- Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical self�a / Joanne Myers -- The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong -- Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph -- The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni -- Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein -- Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny -- Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann -- The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno -- On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin -- The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall -- The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook -- The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck -- Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.…”
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Individualism the cultural logic of modernity /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer -- A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski -- Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner -- "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan -- Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise -- Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical self�a / Joanne Myers -- The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong -- Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph -- The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni -- Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein -- Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny -- Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann -- The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno -- On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin -- The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall -- The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook -- The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck -- Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.…”
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A companion to Greek art
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Greek Decorated Pottery I : Athenian Vase-Painting / Thomas Mannack -- 4. Greek Decorated Pottery II : Regions and Workshops / Stavros A. …”
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A companion to Greek art
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Greek Decorated Pottery I : Athenian Vase-Painting / Thomas Mannack -- 4. Greek Decorated Pottery II : Regions and Workshops / Stavros A. …”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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