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Conrad and women
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ISBN: 0198184484 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford New York Tokyo Clarendon Press

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Centennial essays on Joseph Conrad's Chance
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ISBN: 9004308997 9789004308992 9789004308978 9004308970 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi,

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When Joseph Conrad’s novel Chance appeared in serial form in the New York Herald in 1912 and in book form in 1914 it established the author’s financial security for the first time. Following years of struggle to reach a wide audience for his fiction, Conrad benefitted from the American marketing of this novel for the women readers of romance. Aggressive advertising promoted the writer’s new focus on a female protagonist and Conrad’s division of the story’s location between land and sea. The novel proved popular and lucrative. Yet in spite of its economic success, Chance remains one of Conrad’s less well-known narratives. This fresh new collection of essays from both young and established scholars opens up a lively critical debate taking Chance beyond the status of best-selling romance. In a striking re-evaluation of the novel these writers examine Chance ’s innovative narrative strategies, its up-to-the-minute commentary on female politics, contemporary ethics, as well as its antecedents in classical debate and the significance of Conrad’s last use of his seaman narrator Marlow.

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Van Eyck to Gossaert : towards a northern renaissance
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ISBN: 9781857095050 9781857095043 1857095057 1857095049 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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Objects of beauty and prestige with their rich colour and fine detail, early Netherlandish oil paintings were among the most sought-after works of the Renaissance. Beginning in the early fifteenth century with Jan van Eyck, and ending in the early sixteenth century with the career of Pieter Bruegel, Susan Frances Jones explores the roles played by paintings in political, domestic, religious and secular contexts during this gloriously innovative period. She draws on the National Gallery's remarkable research into materials and techniques to describe how painters' working and creative practices changed and shifted, and examines whether Northern European artists, like some of their Italian counterparts, laid claim to intellectual as well as artistic sophistication. Exhibition: National Gallery, London (23.02 - 30.05.2011).


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The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Dogs
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ISBN: 0855338636 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Mitchell Beazley

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Northern European and Spanish paintings before 1600 in the Art institute of Chicago : a catalogue of the collection
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ISBN: 9780300119442 0300119445 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago: Art institute of Chicago,

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This volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant - yet relatively unknown - collection of French, Spanish, Netherlandish, English, and German paintings created before 1600. More than one hundred works, including altarpieces, private devotional works, portraits, and landscapes by such masters as Lucas Cranach, Gerard David, El Greco, Jan Gossart, and Rogier van der Weyden, receive their first in-depth analysis. More than 350 images - including comparative illustrations of underdrawings, reconstructed ensembles, and related works - accompany the entries.


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Durkheim in Dialogue
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ISBN: 9781782380214 9781782380221 Year: 2013 Volume: 27 Publisher: New York Oxford

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