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Fears and fantasies modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide / by Murphy, Kate, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Urban fears and rural fantasies in the early twentieth century : the Australian and transnational contexts -- "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse -- Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the "girl problem" and the rural-urban divide -- "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality -- The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity -- The reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.…”
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Fears and fantasies modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide / by Murphy, Kate, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Urban fears and rural fantasies in the early twentieth century : the Australian and transnational contexts -- "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse -- Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the "girl problem" and the rural-urban divide -- "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality -- The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity -- The reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.…”
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Urban Re-Industrialization

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Urban Re-Industrialization

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Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia /

Table of Contents: “…American geishas and Oriental/ist fantasies /…”
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Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia /

Table of Contents: “…American geishas and Oriental/ist fantasies /…”
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Chaucerian conflict languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / by Turner, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Chaucerian conflict -- Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition -- Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382 -- Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century -- Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies -- Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form --Conflict resolved? …”
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Chaucerian conflict languages of antagonism in late fourteenth-century London / by Turner, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Chaucerian conflict -- Discursive turbulence : slander, the House of fame, and the Mercers' petition -- Urban treason : Troilus and Criseyde and the 'treasonous aldermen' of 1382 -- Idealism and antagonism : Troynovaunt in the late fourteenth century -- Ricardian communities : Thomas Usk's social fantasies -- Conflicted Compaignyes : the Canterbury fellowship and urban associational form --Conflict resolved? …”
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Formative fictions nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Formative fictions nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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A companion to Luis Buñuel

Table of Contents: “…The creative process of Robinson Crusoe: exile, solitude, humanism / Amparo Martinez Herranz -- The cinematic labour of affect: urbanity and sentimental education in El Bruto and Ensayo de un crimen / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Stars in the wilderness: La mort en ce jardin / Sarah Leahy -- Transitional triptych: the traps of international cinemas in Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fièvre monte à El Pao / Ernesto R. …”
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A companion to Luis Buñuel

Table of Contents: “…The creative process of Robinson Crusoe: exile, solitude, humanism / Amparo Martinez Herranz -- The cinematic labour of affect: urbanity and sentimental education in El Bruto and Ensayo de un crimen / Geoffrey Kantaris -- Stars in the wilderness: La mort en ce jardin / Sarah Leahy -- Transitional triptych: the traps of international cinemas in Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fièvre monte à El Pao / Ernesto R. …”
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