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Rachel Bryan
Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

Students of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and aesthetic upheavals. What these accounts overlook, however, is a body o…

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Making the Village Fit for the Future: Rural Development in Twentieth-Century Asia

Comparativ - 6/2024

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in den Fokus und analysiert historische und aktuelle Globalisierungsvorg…

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Maïa Hruska
Kafkaesque

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translate…

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Richard Sperber
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Richard Sperber,
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Stephanie Oade
Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring around four musical works from the twentieth century. Stephanie Oade considers how and why …

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Christopher Wallace
Twentieth-Century Man

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An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imaginationPeter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife p…

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Kathryn Ferry
Twentieth-Century Seaside Architecture

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium.

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Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe

Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes, and how has this changed over time? This bo…

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Cathy McAteer,
Cold War Women

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and So…

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Dániel Molnár
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest

This Element discusses Budapest from the 1920s until 1968. The field of entertainment began to be considered a cultural product that had to adhere to new political requirements. By 1968, the revue's cultu…

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Dániel Molnár
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest

This Element discusses Budapest from the 1920s until 1968. The field of entertainment began to be considered a cultural product that had to adhere to new political requirements. By 1968, the revue's cultu…

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-rangin…

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A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

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James Welker
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

"Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who chal…

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Julia Ross Cummiskey
Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda

This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, …

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Alice Higgs
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea tha…

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Earl E Fitz
Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E. Fitz's magisterial survey of the field, The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Ce…

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Hallie Franks,
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 2…

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Talbot C Imlay
Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

In this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World Wa…

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