Civilisation and nineteenth-century art

Civilisation and nineteenth-century artOver the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States, especially those that speculated on the direction of history. It also underpinned Western depictions of non Western societies and evaluations of social progress and artistic excellence. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which the idea of Civilisation acted as a

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Eugenics emerged at the end of the nineteenth century as a global phenomenon that transcended religions

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries

across the world

the city is inherently multidisciplinary

Fashion is a mask that constructs or subverts meanings

filmic autobiography and first-person narration

a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France

Topics include a survey of the country's key films

The law of succession is a rich and vibrant subject

Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy

notions of the ‘self’ and what autobiography might mean today