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  1. Describing women's clothing in eighteenth-century England
    Author: Spencer, Elizabeth
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  The Boydell Press, Woodbridge

    Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century

     
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  2. Troubled by faith
    insanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum
    Author: Davies, Owen
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    "The 19th century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the 19th century in a... more

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    "The 19th century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the 19th century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world."

     
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  3. Describing women's clothing in eighteenth-century England
    Author: Spencer, Elizabeth
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  The Boydell Press, Woodbridge

    Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century more

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    Deutsches Museum, Bibliothek
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    Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century

     
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  4. Perspectives on Values
    The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
    Author: Hoffmann, Gerhard
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    Delving deep into the structural and structuring intricacies of humor in British and American novels, this book presents a systematic theory that unravels humor's multifaceted nature. Humor’s forms are analyzed in pioneering novels in a wide range of... more

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    Badische Landesbibliothek
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    Delving deep into the structural and structuring intricacies of humor in British and American novels, this book presents a systematic theory that unravels humor's multifaceted nature. Humor’s forms are analyzed in pioneering novels in a wide range of genres including the 18th-century novel, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernist writing. Gerhard Hoffmann's insight transforms the conventional view of humor, positing it as dynamic force that shapes relationships within the complexity of historical and cultural contingency. By scrutinizing humor’s form and function, a nuanced exploration of moral values emerges, revealing positions of incongruity and negation and the dissemination rather than containment of meaning. Humor becomes a network of perspectives transcending the text itself. This comprehensive exploration offers innovative readings of canonical authors such as Fielding, Twain, Woolf, Hawthorne, Melville, Wharton, Faulkner, and Barthelme.

     
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  5. Fictions of Management
    Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture
    Contributor: Dorson, James (HerausgeberIn); Verlinden, Jasper J. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal... more

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    From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal times. The term is so ubiquitous that it often avoids scrutiny outside of business schools and organizational theory. As the essays collected in ‘Fictions of Management’ show, however, management has a history closely bound up with cultural practices. While the meaning of management has been critically negotiated in literature since the industrial revolution, management theory in turn draws on cultural resources for animating technical rationality with engaging stories and corporate visions. Tracing the relationship between management and fiction in the United States, where the mutual influence between the two has been the greatest and shaped management culture globally, the contributors to this volume provide a unique perspective on changing forms of management through the lens of American literature and culture.

     
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  6. We the People?
    The United States and the Question of Rights
    Contributor: Brittner, Irina (HerausgeberIn); Meyer, Sabine N. (HerausgeberIn); Schneck, Peter (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” (Abraham Lincoln) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet... more

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    The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” (Abraham Lincoln) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet often also conflicting, narratives and discourses through which the question of human and civil rights in the U.S. has been constantly debated and re-negotiated. This volume investigates the U.S.-American culture of rights as it has evolved and continues to evolve throughout U.S. (legal) history as well as in U.S. literature and in popular culture. It demonstrates that the question of rights has been posed differently by members of the various groups and cultures that have historically constituted the United States, and that the answers to these questions changed significantly over time.

     
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  7. ‘Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit’
    The Restoration Period in Popular Historiographies (18th–21st Centuries)
    Author: Flothow, Dorothea
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    The popular re-imaginings of past historical periods – in particular of ‘successful’ periods like the Victorian or the Tudor Ages – in modern media are currently a flourishing field of study. By comparison, the Restoration period (1660–1688/9) is... more

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    The popular re-imaginings of past historical periods – in particular of ‘successful’ periods like the Victorian or the Tudor Ages – in modern media are currently a flourishing field of study. By comparison, the Restoration period (1660–1688/9) is under-researched in studies of popular historiography. This era has a dubious reputation characterized by uninhibited libertines, the twin catastrophes fire and plague, and a growing absolutism overcome in the ‘Glorious Revolution’. Yet in the last three centuries, the Restoration period has featured in numerous historical novels, historical romances, in history plays and historical comedies. The present study examines changing images of this period in popular historiographical genres since the early eighteenth century and analyses them in the context of the political, cultural, and historiographical discourses of their time. Additionally, it traces the historiographical changes in these genres, offering insights into their developments and functions in the field of historiography.

     
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  8. Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c
    Contributor: Klein, Denise (Publisher); Vlachopoulou, Anna (Publisher)
    Published: 2023.
    Publisher:  V&R unipress,

    Abstract For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Abstract For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Following their journeys across borders, the case studies of this volume emphasize the profound effect that mobility had on the lives and thoughtworlds of everyone with a Transottoman trajectory. The chapters reveal breaks, adjustments, and continuities in people’s biographies and the in-betweenness that moving typically created.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Klein, Denise (Publisher); Vlachopoulou, Anna (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783737011662
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    Edition: 1st edition
    Series: Transottomanica
    Subjects: Geschichte
    Other subjects: Osmanisches Reich; Osteuropa; Südosteuropa; Kaukasus; Iran; Biographien; Geschichte; Mobilität; transimperial; Grenzen; Ottoman Empire; Transottoman; Eastern Europe; Mobility; Biografien: Literatur; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie; Ethnographie; 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.); 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.); 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.); 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.)
    Scope: 328pp.
  9. Transottoman Biographies, 16th-20th c.
    Contributor: Klein, Denise (Publisher); Vlachopoulou, Anna (Publisher)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  V&R unipress

    Abstract For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Abstract For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Following their journeys across borders, the case studies of this volume emphasize the profound effect that mobility had on the lives and thoughtworlds of everyone with a Transottoman trajectory. The chapters reveal breaks, adjustments, and continuities in people's biographies and the in-betweenness that moving typically created.

     
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