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Things of the Spirit: Art and Healing in the American Body Politic, 1929-1941
ISBN: 9781433115684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to believe that capitalism and technology had synthesized into a monstrous force that threatened the human race. And yet, this chaotic decade also witnessed an unprecedented level of support, both rhetorical and institutional, for the importance of art in the lives of everyday Americans. This book investigates that paradox, asking why, when simple survival presented its own obstacles, our historically pragmatic culture began to define art as a...
In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to b...
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476,77 zł |
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780415634182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,36 zł |
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780415877978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in... This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding n... |
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756,45 zł |