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Was ist Steinkohle? Woraus besteht sie und woher kommt sie? Welche Vorteile hat sie und warum? Wozu war sie zu gebrauchen und wozu nicht? Fragen wie diese rückten im 19. Jahrhundert zunehmend in das Blickfeld von Wissenschaftlern und Bergbautreibenden. Anlass waren der steigende wirtschaftliche Wert der Steinkohle, die zunehmende Notwendigkeit einer sicheren Versorgung, aber auch die flächendeckende Nutzung der Steinkohle. Dennoch ist bisher wenig darüber bekannt, wie die Zeitgenossen der Industrialisierung die Materialität dieses Rohstoffs betrachteten. Am Beispiel von drei Kleinrevieren des deutschen Steinkohlenbergbaus blickt dieses Buch hinter die Kulissen der Industrialisierung und macht mit der Steinkohle einen ihrer bedeutendsten Rohstoffe zur Akteurin der Geschichte.
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Art, Modern --- Art --- 1800-1899
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Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a new psychology of memory and seeing. His novel In Search of Lost Time was written in the modern age of photography and art history. In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography brings to light Proust’s photographic resources and his visual imagination. This scrupulously researched book features over 100 illustrations. Distinguished cultural historian Mary Bergstein presents various kinds of photography and photographic systems with regard to the literature of Marcel Proust, including daguerreotypes, stereoscopic cards, cartes-de-visite , postcards, book illustrations, portraiture, medical photography, spirit photography, architectural photography, and Orientalism. Photographs associated with fin-de-siècle studies of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Vermeer, are considered in terms of Proust’s tastes and the historiography of art.
Photography --- History --- Proust, Marcel, --- 1800 - 1899
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This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America's most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks - including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
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What is American in American art? This text isolates certain characteristics in 19th century American art that we can denote as American.
Painting, American --- Painting --- anno 1800-1899 --- America
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The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s. Which regional, local, and global aspects can be made evident? What role did autochthonous image and art traditions have, and which specific functions did photography meet since its introduction? This collective volume deals with examples from Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Arab lands and with the question of local specifics, or an "indigenous lens." The contributions broach the issues of regional histories of photography, local photographers, specific themes and practices, and historical collections in these countries. They offer, for the first time in book form, a cross-section through a developing field of the history of photography.
Photography --- History --- 1800-1899 --- Middle East.
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A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
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"Insane run" focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word "dark" is understood as a metaphor of gradual devaluation of the idea of progress. It also receives a literal sense: the book focuses on darkness that found its way back to the European public space.
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De tous les espaces de la demeure que la fiction dite réaliste représente, l’escalier est sans doute le moins investi par l’écriture : sa présence dans le texte, qui donne parfois lieu à une description élaborée, se limite le plus souvent à une mention très discrète. Or, il se trouve que les degrés, conduisant d’un étage à un autre, peuvent mener conjointement d’un état à un autre, et, davantage, à la perception d’une mutation. Encouragée en cela par la solitude qui règne fréquemment dans ce lieu, ou, différemment, par les particularités, physiques ou psychologiques, des rencontres qui à l’occasion s’y produisent, la conscience est susceptible d’accéder ici à un mode original de cognition, qu’elle n’aurait pu élaborer ailleurs : acquisition peut-être imprévue d’un savoir nouveau, dans laquelle l’orientation du mouvement – vers le haut, vers le bas – intervient de façon prépondérante. Relu dans cette perspective, le roman français du XIXe siècle, dont un important échantillonnage constitue le corpus de cet essai, en acquiert comme un surcroît d’intelligibilité. Les aventures de l’esprit dans l’escalier ne bouleversent pas notre appréhension de cette littérature du sujet triomphant, mais elles l’affinent sans doute. Elles permettent, aussi, de retrouver, dans les évolutions de cette thématique, le mouvement d’une histoire de la fiction romanesque, voire de l’Histoire elle-même.
Fiction --- Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- French fiction --- French fiction. --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1899
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