A cross-cultural approach to spiritual currents in nineteenth-century American life, letters, and culture.
A cross-cultural approach to spiritual currents in nineteenth-century American life, letters, and culture.
"Beginning his study with a provocative juxtaposition of the Pueblo Indian Revolt and the Salem Witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century, Kucich examines how both events forged "contact zones"-- spaces of intense cultural conflict and negotiation--mediated by spiritualism. K…
A cross-cultural approach to spiritual currents in nineteenth-century American life, letters, and culture.
Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A.S.Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll's Alice, and nostalgic photography, computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, …
Major critical thinkers have found in the nineteenth century the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects.
Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A.S.Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll's Alice, and nostalgic photography, computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, …