... but for the abolitionist cause in the Anglo-American world; this first section of the Introduction analyzes Vastey’s epistolary relations with the English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and, more broadly, investigates ideological tensions that were constitutive of the transatlantic public sphere. The second section doubles...

... but for the abolitionist cause in the Anglo-American world; this first section of the Introduction analyzes Vastey’s epistolary relations with the English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and, more broadly, investigates ideological tensions that were constitutive of the transatlantic public sphere. The second section doubles...

..., and the harassment it suffers, showing that such harassment is contrary to the growing civic interest in bringing the logics of democratic self-management to the public sphere. Finally, it discusses the Plan Estratégico de la Cultura de Madrid (PECAM) and the role of experimentation in constructing truly democratic...

... lesbigay racism and cultural hegemony the chapter calls into question one-dimensional discourses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities. The analysis draws on queer diaspora perspectives and public sphere theories to understand lesbian, gay male, bisexual, transgender...

...This chapter examines the link between anthropology and the public sphere, focusing on the multiple genealogical strands of the discipline. Taking a longue durée approach as a contextual frame for understanding more recent developments in the field, the chapter considers...

... figures, along with work by Russ Castronovo and Jarrod Hayes in other national contexts and Eugene O'Brien in Irish studies. It suggests that The Long Falling's conclusion not only portrays the problematic relation of counter-public alliances forged in the public sphere, but also...

...Based on extensive archival research, this chapter provides an account of the Women Writers’ Club, examining their aims, networks and connections, activities, affiliations, and political campaigns. It focuses on the role of coterie culture in shaping the intellectual public sphere and maintaining...

...This chapter discusses Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas in relation to feminist periodicals of her time. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, it considers The Freewoman (edited by Dora Marsden) and Time and Tide (edited by Lady...

... of a variety of cultural public spheres in Algeria and their importance to the country’s transition. Allouache Merzak Ameur Zaïmeche Rabah Bachi Salim Bachir Chouikh Yamina Benfodil Mustapha Benmalek Anouar Bensmaïl Malek Bey Maïssa ‘black decade’ Chauvin Luc Clavin Patricia Daoud Kamel derja...

... of the public sphere that unfurled over the subsequent decades. Moreover, Macklin adroitly underlines the failings of post-1745 London to fulfil the Enlightenment claims of the newly reaffirmed Hanoverian project in the play. The chapter also identifies Lawrence Dundas (d. 1781) as an inspiration...

..., German Jews continued to suffer while being blamed by many Germans for the defeat and the revolution. This chapter challenges conventional wisdom concerning the relations between Jews and non-Jews by revisiting the notion that World War I gave rise to a separate and inward-turning Jewish public sphere...

... repeatedly in narrative perspective, all the while it is complicated by Hoffmann’s relentlessly ironic tone. Remarkably, the author manages, through the fairy-tale form, the transgression of the public sphere upon the private and the private upon the public, while also keeping the two levels separate...

..., gender, and religious limits of the British public sphere. Canning Elizabeth Gascoyne Sir Crisp Hart Street Covent Garden London Macklin Charles Warner Michael Fielding Henry Hill John ‘The Inspector’ Cibber Colley Vanbrugh John The Provok’d Covent Garden London Henley John Pope Alexander...

... but for the abolitionist cause in the Anglo-American world; this first section of the Introduction analyzes Vastey’s epistolary relations with the English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and, more broadly, investigates ideological tensions that were constitutive of the transatlantic public sphere. The second section doubles...

... a sense of belonging, and connection to history, unity, and order. To investigate these possibilities, this chapter considers how Between the Acts juxtaposes the passive consumption of mass culture in the 1930s with the utopian ideal of a Habermasian-type of “public sphere,” where...