Comparative Early Modernities

1100-1800
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-12089-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Featuring the cutting-edge interventions of nine leading scholars in Asia and Europe, this interdisciplinary volume showcases new comparative perspectives in the fields of literary, social, artistic, and economic history and re-examines the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; David Porter A War of Worlds: Becoming 'Early Modern' and the Challenge of Comparison; Ayesha Ramachandran Eurasian Literature; Walter Cohen Asia-Centered Approaches to the History of the Early Modern World; Luke Clossey Pornography, Chastity, and 'Early Modernity' in China and England, 1500-1640; Katherine Carlitz Hiding in Plane Sight: Accommodating Incompatibilities in Early Visual Modernity; Richard Vinograd Cultural Trajectories: The Power of the Traditional within the Early Modern; Jack Goldstone Did China's Late Empire have an Early Modern Era?; R. Bin Wong Visualizing the State in Early Modern England and China; Martin Powers Areas, Networks, and the Search for 'Early Modern' East Asia; Kenneth Pomeranz

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID PORTERAssociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Michigan, USA.