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Rereading Sex

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Sex written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bawdy talk to evangelical sermons, and from celebrations of free love to prosecutions for obscenity, nineteenth-century America encompassed a far broader range of sexual attitudes and ideas than the Victorian stereotype would have us believe. In Rereading Sex, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz lets us listen to the national conversation about sex in the nineteenth century and hear voices that resonate in our own time. Probing court records, pamphlets, and “sporting men’s” magazines, Horowitz shows us a many-voiced America in which an earthy acceptance of desire and sexual expression collided with prohibitions broadcast from the pulpit. We encounter fascinating reformers like Victoria Woodhull, who advocated free love and became the first woman to run for president; faddists like Sylvester Graham, who obsessed about the dangers of masturbation; and moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, who succeeded in banning sexual subject matter from the mails. We also see how newspapers like the Sunday Flash treated prostitutes like celebrities and how the National Police Gazette found a legal way to write about explicity about sex through crime reports that read like gossip columns. Employing an encyclopedic knowledge artfully rendered, Horowitz brings to the fore a wide spectrum of attitudes and a debate echoed in the culture wars of today.

Critical Shift

Author : Karen L. Georgi
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271062479
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Critical Shift written by Karen L. Georgi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography. It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.

Rereading the Nineteenth Century

Author : I. Webb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106110
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Rereading the Nineteenth Century written by I. Webb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, this book offers a re-reading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader.

Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969797
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion

Author : Joshua King
Publisher : Literature, Religion, & Postse
ISBN 13 : 9780814213971
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion written by Joshua King and published by Literature, Religion, & Postse. This book was released on 2019 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Rereading Victorian Fiction

Author : A. Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230371140
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Victorian Fiction written by A. Jenkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a collection of essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the nineteenth century and into our own times. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and they deal with a number of lesser-known Victorian Works as well as with some of the most canonical texts of the period. The chronological range of the volume is extended by essays which explore Victorian texts' connections with earlier literature, as well as by studies of twentieth-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction. Overall this collection emphasizes the breadth and diversity of Victorian prose fiction and will be of interest to students and specialists alike.

Rereading the City/rereading Dickens

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rereading the City/rereading Dickens written by Efraim Sicher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interrogation of Dickens' London in a systematic reading. The author's discussions of the novels in their relation to the social, political, technological and scientific discourses of the time articulates metaphoric and mystic aspects of Dickens' urban realism.

Rereading the Fossil Record

Author : David Sepkoski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627294X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Rereading the Fossil Record written by David Sepkoski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but influential group of paleontologists and examines the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics involved in the ascendency of paleobiology. By tracing the role of computer technology, large databases, and quantitative analytical methods in the emergence of paleobiology, this book also offers insight into the growing prominence and centrality of data-driven approaches in recent science.

Listening to Nineteenth-century America

Author : Mark Michael Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849828
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Listening to Nineteenth-century America written by Mark Michael Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we mu

Founding the Fathers

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204328
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Founding the Fathers written by Elizabeth A. Clark and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through their teaching of early Christian history and theology, Elizabeth A. Clark contends, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary functioned as America's closest equivalents to graduate schools in the humanities during the nineteenth century. These four Protestant institutions, founded to train clergy, later became the cradles for the nonsectarian study of religion at secular colleges and universities. Clark, one of the world's most eminent scholars of early Christianity, explores this development in Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America. Based on voluminous archival materials, the book charts how American theologians traveled to Europe to study in Germany and confronted intellectual currents that were invigorating but potentially threatening to their faith. The Union and Yale professors in particular struggled to tame German biblical and philosophical criticism to fit American evangelical convictions. German models that encouraged a positive view of early and medieval Christianity collided with Protestant assumptions that the church had declined grievously between the Apostolic and Reformation eras. Trying to reconcile these views, the Americans came to offer some counterbalance to traditional Protestant hostility both to contemporary Roman Catholicism and to those historical periods that had been perceived as Catholic, especially the patristic era.

Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317541898
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard J. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians – mainly German, American, British and French – have provided a series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German past. It also presents a reconsideration of German history in the light of the recent decline of the German Democratic Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Rereading German History re-examines major controversies in modern German history, such as the debate over Germany’s ‘special path’ to modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the discussions in the 1980s on the uniqueness or otherwise of Auschwitz. Evans also analyses the arguments over the nature of German national identity. The book offers trenchant and important analytical insights into the history of Germany in the last two centuries, and is ideal reading material for students of modern history and German studies.

Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons

Author : Brian Zuccala
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8855185977
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons written by Brian Zuccala and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

Author : Ivan Kreilkamp
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547013
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread written by Ivan Kreilkamp and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time. Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan’s characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. He considers what the novel’s portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data. For Kreilkamp, Egan’s novel compellingly combines the psychological realism of the nineteenth-century novel with more recent and transient forms such as the celebrity magazine profile or a PowerPoint presentation to provide a self-reflective diagnosis of the decay and endurance of literature. Arranged like Egan’s novel into A and B sides, this book highlights not only how A Visit from the Goon Squad speaks to our mass-media and digital present but also its page-turning pleasure.

Rereading Walter Pater

Author : William F. Shuter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521572217
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Walter Pater written by William F. Shuter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. William F. Shuter shows that Pater authorized rereadings of his work in an effort to rewrite his own literary and cultural past. Drawing on unpublished manuscript material, Shuter shows how Pater's later work can serve, paradoxically, as an introduction to the earlier. Such a rereading of Pater's work uncovers patterns of continuity and anticipation that decisively alter our understanding of Pater and his writings.

Rereading Orphanhood

Author : Warren Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474464394
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Orphanhood written by Warren Diane Warren and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novelExamines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, SwitzerlandProvides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studiesIncludes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approachesOffers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children's literature and family and kinship studiesRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Re-reading the Constitution

Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589413
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Re-reading the Constitution written by James Vernon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the debates over the meaning of the English constitution, first published in 1996.

The Idiot

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311106X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions