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Cultural Studies

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Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

The Immaterial Book

Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

By Sarah Wall-Randell
Subjects: History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine

Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By Alison Byerly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Theater and Performance

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

The Lying Brain

Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction

By Melissa M. Littlefield
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Law, Legal History

A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction

Over the Rainbow

Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

By Kenneth B. Kidd & Michelle Ann Abate
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

The Lives of Machines

The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

By Tamara S. Ketabgian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Intellectual History

Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era

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