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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Art and Empire in the Natural History

By: Sorcha Carey

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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Art and Empire in the Natural History

By: Sorcha Carey

One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.

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OUP Oxford

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0191531774

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9780191531774

Postmodern Vampires

Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

By: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

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Postmodern Vampires

Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture

By: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire’s blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.

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271

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Springer

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1137583770

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9781137583772

The Hungry Heart: A Novel of the Famine

By: Sorcha MacMurrough

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The Hungry Heart: A Novel of the Famine

By: Sorcha MacMurrough

Emer Nugent leaves her lover Dalton Randall to search for her family in the hell of the Grosse Ile quarantine station. The land of opportunity is nearly the death of them all. Dalton is deceived into thinking Emer is dead by his father, and is about to marry the daughter of a business rival when he meets Emer again. Outraged that his father, and is about to marry the daughter of a business rival when he meets Emer again. Outraged that his plans for keeping the two apart have failed, Dalton's father has Emer arrested on false charges and transported back to Ireland. But the Ireland she returns to is on the brink of civil war. Emer finds herself unwittingly embroiled in the 1848 rebellion, and is put on trial for her life. Dalton must travel half way across the world to try to save her before it is too late.

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240

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1583450068

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9781583450062

Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Art and Empire in the Natural History

By: Sorcha Carey

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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Art and Empire in the Natural History

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This title argues that Pliny's encyclopaedic "Natural History" offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda.

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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Postmodern Vampires

Postmodern Vampires

The Hungry Heart: A Novel of the Famine

The Hungry Heart: A Novel of the Famine

Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

Pliny's Catalogue of Culture

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