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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"nineteenth-century Germany"”.
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… informed German experience at the end of the nineteenth century. By uniting these two ostensibly disparate realms under one interpretive frame, I offer a new perspective on the theory and practice of young-adult reading at the turn of the last century and the role this reading about travel …
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The Green Table: Gambling Casinos, Capitalist Culture, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… of universalism and exclusion that characterized nineteenth-century German liberalism. The case of the gambling casino illustrates that even as legal inequality gradually disappeared from European polities, hierarchy and status difference were re-inscribed on a new basis, rooted in cultural …
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Dance with Musical Architecture: Eurhythmy in Gottfried Semper's works
… artists, influenced the theory of art in the nineteenth century in Germany. Wagner met Semper in a music shop and later they participated in various discussions regarding the history and theories of art and they both held their own perspectives. Wagner developed the theory of Gesamtkunstwerk …
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Robert Schumann and the Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850)
Nineteenth-century Germany saw an expansion of choral music in a secular context, bringing about changes not only in the nature of the organizations but also in the character of the music. Often depicted in history books as the age of the Lied, the early nineteenth century was also the age of the …
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Germany, ca. 1810-1847
… relationship between law and the state in early nineteenth-century Germany, traced through the lens of one jurist’s engagement with legal reform: the scholar and Prussian statesman Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861). Savigny is known primarily as an innovator in the field of academic …
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Picturing the Text: Illustrated Editions of Marlitt, Raabe, and Storm in the Age of the Industrial Book: (1857-90)
… often evokes children's books, in late nineteenth-century Germany illustrated literature was a serious, albeit embattled, literary mode for adults. Informed by book history and image-text studies, I argue that book illustration provides insights into how literary works were read and …
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What Makes a Woman "Pious and Good": The Function of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales
… and Wilhelm Grimm published these stories in nineteenth-century Germany, which was predominantly Protestant and held the belief that women should be nurturing homemakers who took care of their husbands and children. These cautionary tales instruct women on how to behave and appear physically, …
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August Endell's Construction of Feeling
… of the human brain, as understood in late nineteenth century Germany. Previous studies of Endell generally have tried to situate him within one of the major German schools of thought in psychology, alternatively as a proponent of abstraction or empathy. Through detailed analyses of his …
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The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800–1945
Title: The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800-1945 Author: Colm Peter McGrath, Corpus Christi College Abstract: This thesis examines the development of medical liability in Germany during its intense formative period from 1800-1945. The focus is on how the fault requirement in civil …
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Bildung : the relation between the self and culture in Schiller, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
… self-cultivation, in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany. In the second chapter Schiller is grouped with his contemporaries - Humboldt, Herder, and Goethe - as a 'Weimar Humanist'. I attempt to show how the 'Weimar Humanists' developed a contradictory but definite intellectual …
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Revolution and Revelation: Theology in the Political Thought of Friedrich Julius Stahl, Wilhelm Weitling and Karl Theodor Welcker
… thought of three authors of the Vormärz era in Germany: the liberal Karl Theodor Welcker, the socialist Wilhelm Weitling, and the conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl, who were all central in the early formation of the modern political ideologies in Germany, in the decades leading up to the …