...This chapter considers blind people's position in French society in the early nineteenth century. Through examples culled from a variety of documents, it takes up the question of then-current social and cultural representations of the blind and blindness. These include the prosperous blind...

...This chapter examines representations of the blind in the early nineteenth century. It reviews texts about well-to-do blind people who became famous for intellectual accomplishments while sharing family values, and fictional works with plots constructed around the real or supposed blindness of one...

...This chapter presents some final thoughts from the author. This book has followed both British celebrations and repudiations of China's familiar exotic in nineteenth century, arguing that such receptions mattered greatly in the history of British visuality. They mattered as opposing examples...

...Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, this book examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. Focusing on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848–1896), it is a comprehensive scholarly attempt...

...What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity—for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone?" Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject...

... innovative feature of this book. The introduction also defines the main features of northeastern Hungary and stresses what is gained by viewing nineteenth-century history from the vantage point of this poor, remote region. Drawing on Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, it closes with reflections...

...In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born—most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond, Japanese physicians, learned in Western medicine and medical technology...

...This chapter carries the narrative into the nineteenth century and explores the gradual transition from the early modern philanthropic network to new forms of Jewish philanthropy, emphasizing both continuities and change. It explores the rise of a new center in Amsterdam and the attempt to abolish...

... Manchuria ginseng sustainability nineteenth century Manchu nature freshwater mussels Something strange happened in Manchuria between 1785 and 1810: Its precious freshwater pearls disappeared. Perhaps stranger still, the Qing empire did everything in its power to preserve them: It erected guard posts...

...This book provides a study of linguistic force and its influence on poetry in the nineteenth century. The idea of poetic force can be traced ultimately to a thesis implicit in Kantian philosophy: that of an a priori capacity of language to free itself from having empirical content. This linguistic...

... as members of a German bourgeoisie. It examines the ways in which popular fiction assumed an unprecedented role in shaping Jewish identity during this period, locating in nineteenth-century Germany a defining moment of the modern Jewish experience and the beginnings of a tradition of Jewish belles lettres...

... of their political adversaries. In these conflicts, anticlericalism emerged as an oppositional ideology, associated with the critique of the restoration regimes and anti-Enlightenment movements. This chapter explores how Jewish writers of the early nineteenth century employed this new form of oppositional...

... can be understood best through the interconnected nature of their polemics against different Others. In contrast to recent works that emphasize intra-Jewish debates in their analysis of secularist Jewish thought, this book emphasizes how eighteenth and nineteenth-century Jewish secularism...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to tell the story of how vision became subjective, material, and, consequentially, modern, in nineteenth-century Britain, and how literary and artistic texts directed and made plain those changes. The history of vision's development...

...This book examines the rise of anti-Catholic hostility in early nineteenth-century Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty. French missionaries have long been blamed for the destabilization of dynastic Vietnam and the anti-Catholic violence that preceded the French invasion in 1858, but the focus...

... deserves our attention. Each of the book's eight chapters examines someone born in a small town but eager to act upon a wider stage. They include a garrulous aristocrat, a misunderstood merchant, a tobacco enthusiast, and other figures from the nineteenth-century provinces. One of the central premises...

..., reinforced the boundary line around hunting zones, and attempted to ensure the long-term sustainability of fur-bearing animals. The chapter documents the interconnections between local, regional, and global fur trades in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides a case study...

... that the emissaries and their philanthropic network increasingly operated in a globally interconnected Jewish public sphere, and that the pan-Judaism that they had been promoting since the eighteenth century in many ways paved the way for the modern pan-Jewish identities of late nineteenth-century Jewish...

...This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. The author does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly employed...