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"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
(2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ... -
History and Nature in Karl Marx: Marx’s Debt to German Idealism
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History in Pakistan and the Will to Architecture
(Duke University Press, 2019-05-01)This essay serves as both an introduction to a themed section and a provocation regarding a possible agenda for the anthropology of history in Pakistan. It considers the implications of Faisal Devji’s argument that unity ... -
Hobbes and the Social Control of Unsociability
(Oxford University Press, 2016-06-01)The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). -
A Holy Relic of War: The Soviet Victory Banner as Artefact
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‘How do you live?’: experiments in revolutionary living after 1917
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‘I felt like a man’: West Indian troops under fire during the First World War
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"If they send him off, I think I shall not long be safe myself": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair, 1784–1786
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Images of Empathy: Representations of Force Feeding in Votes for Women
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Immagini di frode. Ritratto e caricatura nell’Orlando furioso
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The Impact of the 1985 “Fassbinder Controversy” on Jewish Identity in Germany
This article argues that the Fassbinder controversy, which took place in Frankfurt in October 1985, was a turning point in Jewish life in the Federal Republic. It was the first time Jews had taken to a public stage (quite ...