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Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
Author/editor: Bert Peeters
Year published: 2019
All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone , and another word for body , but that doesn’t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body...
Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany
Author/editor: Ben Mercer
Year published: 2019
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space,...
Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women's Fiction 1789–1815
Author/editor: Christie Margrave
Year published: 2019
Women novelists were among the most popular authors of the First Republic and First Empire, yet they are frequently overlooked in favour of their canonical male counterparts. Their penchant for sentimental novels has led some later critics to take their writing at face value as apolitical and...
Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800
Author/editor: Merridee L. Bailey, Tania M. Colwell, Julie Hotchin
Year published: 2018
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c . 1100 to c . 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new...
Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema
Author/editor: Gemma King
Year published: 2017
In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual characters...
Sounds of liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914
Author/editor: Kate Bowan, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2017
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in...
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past
Author/editor: Robert Wellington
Year published: 2015
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would...
Rule Britannia? Britain and Britishness 1707–1901
Author/editor: Peter Lindfield, Christie Margrave
Year published: 2015
The concept of Britishness – and its constituent facets – has, over the past decade, come increasingly to the fore. In particular, this can be seen in the politically and socially engaging debates surrounding the Scottish Referendum in 2014. It is an idea – manifested both physically and...
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature
Author/editor: Leslie Barnes
Year published: 2014
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting...
Art and Time
Author/editor: Derek Allan
Year published: 2013
A well-known feature of great works of art is their power to “live on” long after the moment of their creation – to remain vital and alive long after the culture in which they were born has passed into history. This power to transcend time is common to works as various as the plays of Shakespeare,...
