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Vermeer: Reception and Interpretation
In this study, Christiane Hertel interprets the suppositions underlying Vermeer’s canonization in the nineteenth century and also addresses the...
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After Raphael
After Raphael is the first comprehensive overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over 30 years. Reevaluating the paintings...
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Rembrandt’s Bathsheba Reading King David’s Letter
Rembrandt’s masterful Bathsheba Reading King David’s Letter is unusual both as a history painting and as a portrayal of a nude. Instead of...
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Signifying Art
A study of the work of a generation of respondents to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who...
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Signifying Art
A study of the work of a generation of respondents to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who...
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the...
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Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture
Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture focuses on representations of work in American sculpture, from the decade in which the American Federation of...
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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it...
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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these...
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Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The first collection of critical essays on Luis Buñuel’s 1972 Oscar-winning masterpiece, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, this anthology...
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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and...
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Modern Art in Eastern Europe
In this award-winning study, Steven Mansbach provides the first coherent narrative of the modern art movements of Eastern Europe. Analyzing a vast...
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and...
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Religions of the Ancient Greeks
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of...
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Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from...
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Religions of the Ancient Greeks
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of...
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and...
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,...
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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who...
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,...
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The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580–1745
Between 1580 and 1745 - Edmund Spenser’s journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion - the first British Empire was established....
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671
Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European...
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