wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum CI
ISBN: 9780814253335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "This book is exceptionally smart, really one of the best books Ive read in its interdisciplinary way. [. . .] I find it original, thoughtful, and useful."
-Barbara Groseclose, The Ohio State University Before the Civil War, Cincinnati, Ohio, was considered the most important art center of what was then regarded as the U.S. West. In this book, Wendy Jean Katz explores the role of artists and art associations in moral and social reform in antebellum Cincinnati. Its leaders claimed for it the status of the future geographic and economic center of the nation, and supported art as part of their... "This book is exceptionally smart, really one of the best books Ive read in its interdisciplinary way. [. . .] I find it original, thoughtful, and use...
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166,99 |
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Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press
ISBN: 9780823285389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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151,83 |
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Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press
ISBN: 9780823285372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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612,21 |
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Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire: A Critical Study of British Imperial Fiction
ISBN: 9780521131131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While Rider Haggard's stories have been popular with several generations of readers, this was the first study to examine the place of Empire in his writing and to draw out its related political and literary implications. Dr Katz argues that the romance adventure carried an ideological burden for Haggard and that he was one of a number of imperial-minded writers - among them R. L. Stevenson, Andrew Lang, W. E. Henley and Kipling - who shared a similar world-view and certain literary traits. The book includes a biographical sketch focusing on Haggard's experiences in the Transvaal in the later...
While Rider Haggard's stories have been popular with several generations of readers, this was the first study to examine the place of Empire in his wr...
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250,83 |
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Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siecle
ISBN: 9780803278806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture.
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role o...
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264,47 |
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Treasure Island
ISBN: 9780748608379 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. One of literature's most famous island stories, Treasure Islandhas inspired sequels, adaptations, illustrated editions and motion pictures. This edition offers a clean and corrected text and scholarly annotations where required, all wrapped up in a beautifully produced collector's volume.
A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. One of literature's most famous island stories, Treasure Islandhas inspi...
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489,77 |
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Regionalism and the Humanities
ISBN: 9780803276345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of architecture, agriculture, and women, this volume implements some of the most innovative and intriguing approaches to the history and value of regionalism as a category for investigation in the humanities. In the volume's inaugural...
Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essa...
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117,50 |