Yale French Studies, Number 139. Photography and the Body in Nineteenth-Century France, Paperback - ***

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

A diverse, interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring what makes Maryse Conde a writer for our timesPublisher: Yale University PressNumber of...

Reducere. Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appear...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Montclair State University, USA) EmeryIllustration(s): 13 colour and 48 bw illusNumber of...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

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This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today...

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

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Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Nicola Minott-AhlNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 18Cover type: Hardbac...

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe - Ian Armit

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

Reducere. In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen" Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungari...

A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history This bo...

This new, interdisciplinary history of romanticism, art and science, reveals how romantic artworks participated in a profound crisis concerning the...

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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

This volume brings together six outstanding French tales, each by a different author, originally published between 1829 and 1886. Representing a va...

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twentieth- century France and the Francophone world and...

The first account of the Crippen saga to make full use of the new DNA evidence that has transformed the case.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor...

Designed to help movement therapists, physical therapists, and bodyworkers understand gait and its mechanics, and will appeal to anyone with an int...

DescriptionThe Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Il...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Reducere. Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Paris in FranceThe photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and archite...

A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competiti...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): John P. CongerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paper...

A translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century Brit...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

Reducere. Our identity, and the way we project ourselves in the world, feeds a fundamental need for acceptance and recognition. Maintaining our projections e...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...