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Velocipedomania
When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the …
Screen Time
Published on the occasion of the art exhibition Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, this catalog features a selection of leading international artists who …
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. …
Families of the Heart
In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device the surrogate family as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women s …
Dystopias of Infamy
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse-frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter-are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the …
Dante in Deutschland
Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common …
Founders of the Future
In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national …
Political Affairs of the Heart
Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits …
Limits of Familiarity
What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the …
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters …
Clubbable Man
Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as "e;a most unclubbable man."e; Conversely, this celebratory volume …
Planet Work
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and …