Warwick Series in the Humanities
Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By David Beck
December 12, 2019
Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge....
New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Fagge, Nicolas Pillai
December 12, 2019
New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular, the collection breaks ...
Picturing Women's Health
1st Edition
By Ji Won Chung
December 12, 2019
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period....
Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen
December 10, 2019
This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, ...
Classicism and Romanticism in Italian Literature: Leopardi's Discourse on Romantic Poetry
1st Edition
By Fabio A Camilletti
January 20, 2016
In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to ...
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Mathieson, Gemma Goodman
January 20, 2016
The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of ...
Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape
1st Edition
By Dom Holdaway
January 20, 2016
Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented ...