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Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines: literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for special features that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Aesthetics, Modern. --- Civilization, Modern. --- English literature --- Enlightenment --- Idea (Philosophy) --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Enlightenment, Restoration, Augustan, Aesthetics, History of ideas.

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Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the "poetry" of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was "manifesto art"--combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century. Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas. The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made "possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.

Arts -- Political aspects. --- Arts, Modern -- 20th century. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 19th century. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century. --- Revolutionary literature --- Arts, Modern --- Arts --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Literature --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Political aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- Marx, Karl, --- Engels, Friedrich, --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Das Manifest der kommunistischen Partei --- Manifestes (art) --- Littérature et révolution --- Avant-garde (esthétique) --- Arts et politique --- Littérature révolutionnaire --- 20e siècle --- Aspect politique --- Histoire et critique

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À la Renaissance, les inventions techniques comme la boussole, les lunettes ou l'imprimerie, mais aussi les cabinets de curiosité, les monstres, les merveilles ou les grotesques fascinent les esprits. Les amateurs de surprise et de nouveauté se recrutent aussi bien parmi les souverains et leur cour que parmi les lettrés, les humanistes, ou dans le peuple épris de fêtes et de spectacles. Les récits de voyages, les jardins, les réalisations architecturales qui se multiplient alors donnent l'impression d'un foisonnement de choses inédites, voire insolites, où l'innovation, mais aussi l'exagération, ont leur part. Avec Shakespeare, Ben Jonson et bien d'autres, la scène élisabéthaine va s'efforcer de répondre à ce goût grandissant pour la nouveauté, dont elle donne parfois une image grinçante et satirique. Au XXe siècle, après la remise en cause du drame bourgeois par Antonin Artaud qui redécouvre en France le théâtre élisabéthain, les mises en scène audacieuses de Patrice Chéreau (Hamlet) ou de Peter Sellars (Le Marchand de Venise) font apparaître la nouveauté de ces textes. Les différents parcours proposés dans ce recueil sont à lire comme autant d'invitations à voir ailleurs ou autrement, à s'ouvrir à ce qui apparaît bien comme autant d'expériences et d'esthétiques de la nouveauté. Ce terme parfois décrié à la Renaissance prend donc ici tout son sens et ouvre clairement la voie vers la modernité.

European literature --- New and old --- Littérature européenne --- Ancien et nouveau --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Modernity in literature --- Aesthetics --- History --- Littérature européenne --- Aesthetics - History --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism --- Literature, British Isles --- Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- Renaissance --- technique --- esthétiques --- nouveauté --- inventions

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In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints to heal humans through ritualized trance. Based on nearly two years of participation in the musical, ritual, and social worlds of stambeli musicians, Jankowsky’s study explores the way the music evokes the cross-cultural, migratory past of its originators and their encounters with the Arab-Islamic world in which they found themselves. Stambeli, Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly marked by a sense of otherness—the healing spirits, the founding musicians, and the instruments mostly come from outside Tunisia—which creates a unique space for profoundly meaningful interactions between sub-Saharan and North African people, beliefs, histories, and aesthetics. Part ethnography, part history of the complex relationship between Tunisia’s Arab and sub-Saharan populations, Stambeli will be welcomed by scholars and students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, African studies, and religion.

Spirit possession --- Black people --- Music --- Sṭambālī (Rite) --- Rites and ceremonies. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- music, musical studies, trance, tunisia, tunisian, ethnography, ethnographic research, healing trances, sub-saharan, north africa, muslims, religion, religious study, faith, islam, ritualized, ritualization, social worlds, migration, migratory, otherness, spirits, instruments, cultural, culture, aesthetics, history, historical, arab, rites, ceremony, possession, slave trade, slavery, movement, pilgrimage, vocality, displacement, emplacement.

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Though much beloved and widely produced, Molière's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theater? Instead of simply dismissing social satire as a foundation for Molière's theater, as many have done, Larry F. Norman takes seriously Molière's claim that his satires are first and foremost effective theater. Pairing close readings of Molière's comedies with insightful accounts of French social history and aesthetics, Norman shows how Molière conceived of satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Drawing on these tensions, Molière portrays characters satirizing one another on stage, with their reactions providing dramatic conflict and propelling comic dialogue. By laying bare his society's system of imagining itself, Molière's satires both enthralled and enraged his original audience and provide us with a crucial key to the classical culture of representation.

Molière --- Criticism and interpretation --- Moli re, - 1622-1673 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Moli©9·re, - 1622-1673 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Authors, French. --- French authors --- Molière, --- Molière, J.-P. B. --- Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Molière --- Molière, J.-B. P. --- Molière, J.-B. P. de --- Poquelin de Molière, Jean Baptiste, --- Molʹer, Zhan-Batist, --- Mo-li-ai, --- Moliai, --- Molyér, --- Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, --- Moliere, I. B. P. de, --- Molʹer, Zh.-B. --- Molieros, --- Moliyer, --- Molʹer, --- Mollierŭ, --- Molyer, Zshan Poḳlen, --- Мольер, --- Moriēru, --- מאליער --- מולייר --- מולייר, ב׳אן בטיסט --- מולייר, פ. --- מולייר, --- מולירה --- موليير --- 莫里哀, --- モリエール, --- depiction, depicting, jean-baptiste poquelin, moliere, satire, satirical comedy, literature, literary studies, playwright, social commerce, society, genre, caricature, castigation, theater, theatre, effectiveness, comedies, france, french writings, insightful, aesthetics, history, historical contexts, images, imagery, stage, performance, dramatic conflict, comic dialogue, representation, criticism, interpretation, reflexivity, dramaturgy.