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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"Late Nineteenth-century"”.
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Occidentalism in Late Nineteenth Century Egypt
… discourses of three intellectual leaders of late nineteenth century Egypt, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Qasim Amin, and Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi. It highlights four main factors that shaped the three writers' views of the West. These factors are: the way each writer saw reform as a process, the …
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Performing practices in late-nineteenth-century piano playing
… provide audible evidence of the style of late- nineteenth and early twentieth century pianists. These clearly exhibit an approach to piano playing which differs radically from the present. The relationship between the practices preserved in the recordings and their description in …
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Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
<p>In the mid-to-late 1800s, French writers and artists resolved to shed their Romantic skins in favor of new self-conscious "husks"--to borrow Baudelaire's poetic term--that is to say: Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Some of the older reformers found themselves in an awkward, …
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Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature
… realism and its representational claims in the late nineteenth-century is to examine the relationship between realism and a common cultural concern that opposes the very tenets of realism, one that necessarily pervaded all aspects of class, gender, nationality, race, sexual orientation, or other …
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Rationalizing everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul c. 1900
… the rationalizing process of everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul, within the framework of the modernization agendas that swept the Ottoman Empire from the 1830s on. Starting with the period known as Tanzimat (literally 'the reforms'), the study covers the Hamidian period …
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Creating Art and Artists: Late Nineteenth-Century American Artists' Studios
… sculptors working in the cosmopolitan era of the late nineteenth century. Between the Philadelphia Centennial and World War I, most makers of fine art worked in studios furnished with old furniture, personal mementos, historic relics and superbly-crafted <em>objets d'art</em>, all rich in …
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The Development of Realism in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Drama
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:08:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7020999.pdf: 12020703 bytes, checksum: 608a9941c5ee2b5f9711221ff296b607 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period after the …
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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences
… the origins of colour vision science in 19th century Britain. By drawing attention to wide ranging dialogues and disagreements between diverse figures with different visions of colour, including physicists David Brewster, James Clerk Maxwell, and Lord Rayleigh, politician and philologist …
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William Gillette and American Theatrical Realism of the Late Nineteenth Century
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… representations of nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is often retrospectively …
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The Diffusion of Religious Doubt in Late Nineteenth Century English Fiction
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Tilting the mirror : packaging "Spanish" architecture in late nineteenth century California
In 1893 at Chicago's World Columbian Exposition, California devoted a great deal of resources to its promotion through a pavilion that spelled out a construct about California's "Spanish" past. This supposed history got incorporated into California's self-representation and affected the identity of …
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The locomotive and the tree: industrial Pittsburgh's late nineteenth-century literary culture
… the need for research that broadens the scope of late-nineteenth century American literature by examining smaller networks of print.
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Representations of Marble in Art from the Late Nineteenth Century to 2023
… a history of representing marble in art from the late nineteenth century to 2023. It begins with the ‘western’ tradition of Europe and branches out to increasingly global perspectives, particularly those shaped through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between Asia and the ‘west’ that have …
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Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century
… level although not systematically formulated, in terms of which the Transkeian magistrates viewed the African communities under their governance. It is thus an essay in colonial administration, but the critical focus has been narrowed and is centred primarily upon the ideas and …
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The development of water pollution law in late nineteenth century America, 1870-1905
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The development of water pollution law in late nineteenth century America, 1870-1905
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