Imagining Early Modern Histories 9781472465191, 9781472465177

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contr

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Imagining Early Modern Histories
9781472465191, 9781472465177

For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make

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In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists,

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"Campbell's new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts inclu

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Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence

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What is Imagination? What is the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in a contemporary civilization dominated by

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Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of

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Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L

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As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the p

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Shakespeare’s characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16

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Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume o

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