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  • Widow City

    Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance

    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century—including Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, and Francesca Turina—and radically changed ... Read more

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  • Gendering the Renaissance

    Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what ... Read more

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  • Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen ... Read more

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  • China: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.The book provides an empirically rich overview of China’s global position and the challenges posed by urbanisation, uneven economic development, and environmental governance. With detailed ... Read more

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    Living with Pollution in Rural China

    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
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    Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces listeners to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.The book provides an empirically rich overview of China's global position and the challenges posed by urbanization, uneven economic development, and environmental governance. With detailed ... Read more

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