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Traces the history of three massive palaces built outside Naples in the eighteenth century—at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta—and examines how these buildings were designed to help reshape the economic and cultural fortunes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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Examines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.
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A collection of essays offering critical perspectives on the study of medieval art, challenging chronological, geographical, and cultural boundaries.
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Applies contemporary rhetorical analysis to mathematical discourse, calling into question the commonly held view that math equals truth. Explores how... Læs mere
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Traces the history of American genre painting from 1905 to 1945. Examines how artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, and Jacob Lawrence adapted to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art.
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A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations.
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Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915.
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Explores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into question critical assumptions about the genre.
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Explores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.
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Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states.
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A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene.
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Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts.