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January 31, 2024

Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change (2024)

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Free Download Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, Manuela Albertone, "Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century: When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change"
English | 2019 | pages: 447 | ISBN: 0367427737, 1032087595 | PDF | 129,8 mb
Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and actions needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book aims to compile these changes under the heuristic term of "languages of reform." It analyzes the structures of communication regarding reforms in the 18th century through a wide variety of topics.

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January 19, 2024

The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century

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English | ISBN: 1443897663 | 2016 | 270 pages | PDF | 1106 KB
The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes had resulted in a greater demand for reading material aimed at a general audience. Because of its educational and entertaining characteristics, the historical novel quickly became a dominant genre among other forms of popular literature. To this day, it constitutes a major sector on the German book market and is, together with popular TV series, documentaries, and museum exhibits, an important part of German Geschichtskultur. This collection of essays looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the development of the genre in Germany from the late eighteenth century to the present, and gives insights into the novels political and socio-cultural implications. The articles investigate historical novels from writers such as Benedikte Naubert, the mother of German historical fiction, nineteenth-century popular writers Georg Ebers and Hermann Sudermann, modern writers such as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Hermann Broch, post-Wende works such as those by Thomas Brussig, Christa Wolf, and Ingo Schulze, and contemporary historical fiction by Sabine Weigand, Eveline Hasler and Petra Durst-Benning.

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January 19, 2024

String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 100927368X | 297 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Drawing on extensive archival work, this book examines the crucial contribution of Neapolitan string virtuosi to the dissemination of instrumental music and to the development of string practices and musical culture in Europe. It presents a fresh look at the central place of instrumental music in early modern Naples and considers aspects of music pedagogy, performance practices, patronage, and musicians’ social mobility. Music examples, paintings, and lists of personnel of major music institutions inform the discussion and illustrate the opportunities for social mobility afforded by the music profession. Music production and consumption are considered within their cultural, political, and economic contexts and in connection with the rapid political changes of eighteenth-century Naples. This substantial contribution to the understanding of a previously under-studied repertory places the cultivation of Neapolitan instrumental music at the centre of aesthetic and cultural developments across eighteenth-century Europe.

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January 10, 2024

Shakespeare Adaptations from the Early Eighteenth Century Five Plays

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English | 2013 | pages: 474 | ISBN: 161147647X | EPUB | 4,0 mb
This book presents a scholarly edition of five of the first adaptations of Shakespeare from the eighteenth century, the period when Shakespeare became "Shakespeare." Written by men influential in early Augustan cultural spheres, these adaptations demonstrate how contemporary literary principles and contemporary politics were applied to Shakespeare’s texts. In these adaptations of Henry V, Richard II, Coriolanus, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, we see the various ways that eighteenth-century authors "righted" Shakespeare’s "wrongs": through the addition and alteration of female characters and romantic sub-Descriptions, the introduction of new scenes, the use of the unities of time and place, and the inclusion of overt moral and political arguments.

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January 8, 2024

Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032597690 | 311 Pages | PDF (True) | 5.4 MB
Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area-approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle-located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products-salt, cotton and silk-all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remote mountain communities and industrious cities.

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