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Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity
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ISBN: 9780199236442 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Sex : antiquity and its legacy
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ISBN: 0195380924 0195380932 9780195380927 9780195380934 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York: Oxford university press,

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Sex : antiquity and its legacy
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ISBN: 9781848855205 9781848855199 Year: 2015 Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris,

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Sex. --- Sex --- History.


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Antiquity in print : visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century
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ISBN: 9781350407770 9781350407763 9781350407794 9781350407787 Year: 2024 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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"Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualised for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts"--


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Inventive inscriptions - the organization of epigraphic knowledge in the nineteenth century
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Year: 2014

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Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915
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ISBN: 1526136201 1526124351 9781526124364 152612436X 9781526124357 9781526136206 1526124343 9781526124340 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester


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The Mudimbe reader
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ISBN: 0813939127 9780813939100 0813939100 9780813939124 0813939100 9780813939117 0813939119 Year: 2016 Publisher: Charlottesville

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A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English. Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth century from an African intellectual's point of view, The Mudimbe Reader provides an introduction and a comprehensive bibliography that frame four thematic gatherings of Mudimbe's writings. Part 1 bears witness to Mudimbe's attempts, as a university professor in the new nation-state of Zaire, to balance the postindependence discourse of authenticity with his training in Western philosophy and philology. Part 2 focuses on Mudimbe's exploration of racial, ethnic, and religious discourses to reflect upon postcolonialism in Zaire and in the United States. In the third part, Mudimbe interrogates ancient Greek and Latin texts as a strategy to engage the legacy of antiquity for European and African modernity. Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe's recurring attempt to elucidate how African "primitiveness" has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the present day.


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African Athena : new agendas
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ISBN: 9780199595006 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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'African Athena' examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.


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Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 : Rereading the fin de siècle
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ISBN: 9781526124357 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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This collection of essays seeks to question the security of our assumptions about the fin de siècle by exploring the fiction of Richard Marsh, an important but neglected professional author. Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915) began his literary career as a writer of boys’ fiction, but, following a prison sentence for fraud, reinvented himself as ‘Richard Marsh’ in 1888. Marsh was a prolific and popular author of middlebrow genre fiction including Gothic, crime, humour, romance and adventure, whose bestselling Gothic novel The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Building on a burgeoning interest in Marsh’s writing, this collection of essays examines a broad array of Marsh’s genre fictions through the lens of cutting-edge critical theory, including print culture, New Historicism, disability studies, genre theory, New Economic Criticism, gender theory, postcolonial studies, thing theory, psychoanalysis, object relations theory and art history, producing innovative readings not only of Marsh but of the fin-de-siècle period. Marsh emerges here as a versatile contributor to the literary and journalistic culture of his time whose stories of shape-shifting monsters, daring but morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life helped to shape the genres of fiction with which we are familiar today. Marsh’s fictions reflect contemporary themes and anxieties while often offering unexpected, subversive and even counter-hegemonic takes on dominant narratives of gender, criminality, race and class, unsettling our perceptions of the fin de siècle.

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