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Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Daub Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...

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Poetry

Poetry in a Global Age

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226730141, ISBN: HB: 9780226730004, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-nati...

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Ancient World

Eternal City A History of Rome in Maps

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226591452, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...

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Christianity

Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

Oliphant Elayne

ISBN: PB: 9780226731261, ISBN: HB: 9780226731124, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage". In a creative inve...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queer Legacies Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives

D'Emilio John

ISBN: PB: 9780226727530, ISBN: HB: 9780226664972, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The variety of gay life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse, to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerbert/Hart Library & Archives on the city's North Side has strived to do just that, amassing and cataloging a wealth of recor...

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History of Art

Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Etienne Noemie, Brizon Claire, Lee Chonja, Wismer Etienne

ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...

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Poetry

Quiet Orient Riot

Khankan Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430830, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherho...

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Philosophy

Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human

Berkowitz Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...

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Literary Criticism

Fat New and Uncollected Prose

Di Piero W. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...

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Philosophy

Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...

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