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Hunger and Modern Writing: Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright

Author:Daniel Ree
Publisher:Modern Academic Publishing
Abstract: "Hunger is a contentious theme in modernist literature, and this study addresses its relevance in t…

Chapter 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England

Author:Newton Hanna
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Abstract: "Very little is known about early modern approaches to convalescence and the author investigates th…

A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

Author:E. Dutton Georg
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bỉnh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled…

L’expérience de la différence religieuse dans l'Europe moderne (XVIe – XVIIIe siè-cles)

Author:Forclaz Bertran
Publisher:Editions Alphil Presses universitaires suisses
Abstract: This collective work explores the themes of religious coexistence and the broaching of religious fr…

The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815

Author:Jensen Lotte
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on …

Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

Author:Fisher Elain
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unifica…

Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

Author:Workman Travi
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: "Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s c…

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Author:Skuse Alann
Publisher:Springer Nature
Abstract: The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theor…

Chapter Lodovico Nocentini: A Rereader of Modern Italian Travellers to China

Author:De Angeli Aglaia
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: In 1882, Nocentini published Il primo sinologo: P. Matteo Ricci. The first secular biography of the…

Chapter 5 The ‘hell of modern sound’

Author:Smith Martyn Davi
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: Contemporary Japan is loud. Many scholars have argued that the Japanese have a cultural propensity …
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