Search Results - "Fin de siècle"

Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman -- Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siècle / Josephine M. Guy.…”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / by Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.…”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / by Pinsker, Shachar

Table of Contents: “…-- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.…”
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Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / by Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Leslie and Toru Dutt; cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle London: Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman -- Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siècle / Josephine M. Guy.…”
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La experiencia olvidada : el ayuntamiento de México: política y gobierno, 1876-1912 / by Rodríguez Kuri, Ariel

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La experiencia olvidada : el ayuntamiento de México: política y gobierno, 1876-1912 / by Rodríguez Kuri, Ariel

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Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption / by Francescato, Simone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation -- The spoils of Poynton. …”
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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption / by Francescato, Simone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation -- The spoils of Poynton. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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We, the people politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: "race," science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev -- The canon-builders -- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian identity between poetry and history / Bojan Aleksov -- Faik Konitza, the modernizer of the Albanian language and nation / Artan Puto -- Shemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) : contributing to the construction of Albanian and Turkish identities / Bülent Bilmez.…”
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We, the people politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: "race," science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev -- The canon-builders -- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian identity between poetry and history / Bojan Aleksov -- Faik Konitza, the modernizer of the Albanian language and nation / Artan Puto -- Shemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) : contributing to the construction of Albanian and Turkish identities / Bülent Bilmez.…”
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German history from the margins

Table of Contents: “…Germans of the Jewish Stamm: visions of community between nationalism and particularism, 1850 to 1933 / Till van Rahden -- Identity and essentialism: race, racism, and the Jews at the fin de siècle / Yfaat Weiss -- Prussia at the margins, or the world that nationalism lost / Helmut Walser Smith -- Völkisch-nationalism and universalism on the margins of the Reich: a comparison of majority and minority liberalism in Germany, 1898-1933 / Eric Kurlander -- "Volksgemeinschaften unter sich": German minorities and regionalism in Poland, 1918-39 / Winson Chu -- A margin at the center: the conservatives in Lower Saxony between Kaiserreich and Federal Republic / Frank Bösch -- "Black-red-gold enemies": Catholics, Socialists, and Jews in elementary schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich / Katharine Kennedy -- "Productivist" and "consumerist" narratives of Jews in German history / Gideon Reuveni -- How "Jewish" is German sexuality? …”
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German history from the margins

Table of Contents: “…Germans of the Jewish Stamm: visions of community between nationalism and particularism, 1850 to 1933 / Till van Rahden -- Identity and essentialism: race, racism, and the Jews at the fin de siècle / Yfaat Weiss -- Prussia at the margins, or the world that nationalism lost / Helmut Walser Smith -- Völkisch-nationalism and universalism on the margins of the Reich: a comparison of majority and minority liberalism in Germany, 1898-1933 / Eric Kurlander -- "Volksgemeinschaften unter sich": German minorities and regionalism in Poland, 1918-39 / Winson Chu -- A margin at the center: the conservatives in Lower Saxony between Kaiserreich and Federal Republic / Frank Bösch -- "Black-red-gold enemies": Catholics, Socialists, and Jews in elementary schoolbooks from Kaiserreich to Third Reich / Katharine Kennedy -- "Productivist" and "consumerist" narratives of Jews in German history / Gideon Reuveni -- How "Jewish" is German sexuality? …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Ambrose Bierce : the literary politics of gender in fin-de-siecle California / Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the practice of ethical journalism / Denise D. …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Ambrose Bierce : the literary politics of gender in fin-de-siecle California / Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the practice of ethical journalism / Denise D. …”
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