Archiv für Januar 2013

Diego Armus, The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/135?rss=1

Gabriele Moser, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und Krebsforschung 1920-1970

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Lydia Carroll, In the Fever King’s Preserves: Sir Charles Cameron and the Dublin Slums

Quelle: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/26/1/139?rss=1

0064 Herman van Bergeijk, "Ein großer Vorsprung gegenüber Deutschland". Die niederländischen Architekten auf der Bauhausausstellung von 1923 in Weimar

This article discusses the Dutch contribution to the International Architecture Exhibition that was part of the Bauhaus Manifestation in 1923. The Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud, together with […]

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Governing the Wolf: Soul and Space in The Merchant of Venice

This essay reads Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a manifestation of early modern England’s anxiety over the soul. As something both essential and unrepresentable, the soul existed in the popular imagination as potentially monstrous…

„How Many Arts from Such a Labour Flow“: Thomas Middleton and London’s New River

Spanning a thirty-eight-mile canal, a walled reservoir, and a city-wide network of wooden mains, London’s New River altered terrain from Hertfordshire to the city. A vital shift in London’s spatial order attended these topographical change…

„Quod me nutrit me destruit“: Discovering the Abject on the Early Modern Stage

This essay explores the early modern stage convention of the discovery space and use of other curtained and costumed spaces to argue that such conventions performed and materialized the experience of abjection, those terrifying reminders of man’…

„Here at the Fringe of the Forest“: Staging Sacred Space in As You Like It

This essay examines Shakespeare’s representation of sacred space in As You Like It and argues that the play should be read as Shakespeare’s imaginative commentary on a changing culture of sacred spaces at the end of a century of religious …

„All Places Are Alike“: Marlowe’s Edward II and English Spatial Imagination

This essay responds to queer approaches to Edward II and instead explores the way Marlowe tests the limits of imaginative space by presenting challenging and untenable spaces with which his audience must engage. For example, when Edward II is asked to…