Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.3366/cult.2021.0246
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
{"title":"The Place of Human Dignity in an Emotional World: Shame and Honour, Humility and Humiliation","authors":"Sharon Crozier-De Rosa","doi":"10.3366/cult.2021.0246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48870286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.3366/cult.2021.0244
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
{"title":"Crossing the Atlantic: Reading Rooms and Foreign-Language Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro","authors":"Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos","doi":"10.3366/cult.2021.0244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0244","url":null,"abstract":"Reading rooms, a totally unprecedented kind of institution in a country newly independent from Portuguese rule, started being set up in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro in the late 1820s. Catering mainly for the foreign communities, their fare consisted for the most part in imported printed material. Although it might sound like an exaggeration to claim that Rio was flooded with newspapers, books and periodicals, they became gradually and increasingly available to its inhabitants. The establishment of the British Subscription Library in 1826, the Portuguese Circulating Library in 1837, and the Biblioteca Fluminense in 1847 played a pivotal role in the circulation of British and French periodicals, allowing for the dissemination of news, ideas, key political, social and economic issues, as well as the diffusion of fiction and literary news. This essay reveals the presence and circulation of some of the foreign periodicals in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro libraries and reading rooms and traces their impact on the local Republic of Letters.","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45618930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.3366/cult.2021.0248
D. Nash
{"title":"Politics of Humiliation – How do We Save Us from our Liberal Selves?","authors":"D. Nash","doi":"10.3366/cult.2021.0248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0248","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of the Enlightenment, its offer, its cohesiveness and its intentions have been fruitful areas of investigation and analysis almost since human history was conscious of it. Ute Frevert’s The Politics of Humiliation sees this paradigm as a leading protagonist in a history of shame and humiliation stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Enlightenment gave us the enduring concept of human dignity, and it is the task of historians like Frevert to produce an inventory, or balance sheet, of how successful the subsequent period of history was in living up to these ideals. Similarly, we are persuaded to consider how much our contemporary world measures up in its promotion of human dignity.","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46367032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.3366/cult.2021.0241
Colette Colligan
{"title":"Reading Rooms for Travelling Cultures: English-Language Reading Rooms in Late Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"Colette Colligan","doi":"10.3366/cult.2021.0241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0241","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on British and American reading rooms at the end of the nineteenth century in French travel centres such as Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cannes, and Paris. These reading rooms were sites of transit that reveal the travelling cultures of Britons and Americans. They set in motion certain travel sociabilities and practices, suggested various transit routes and itineraries, promoted different cultural and national affiliations and identities, and collected, represented, and displayed anglophone cultures. They operated as microcosms of British and American cultures, offering essentialized experiences and connections with people, behaviour, and things affiliated with home, but this essay shows how they were also social environments that not only reinforced, but also reshaped and interrogated anglophone cultures on the move in British, American, and French cultural territories.","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49618226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.3366/CULT.2021.0235
Marcel Thomas
{"title":"David Howes (ed.), A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age, 1920–2000","authors":"Marcel Thomas","doi":"10.3366/CULT.2021.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/CULT.2021.0235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45962824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.3366/CULT.2021.0231
Tiina Männistö-Funk
{"title":"What Kerbstones Do: A Century of Street Space from the Perspective of One Material Actor","authors":"Tiina Männistö-Funk","doi":"10.3366/CULT.2021.0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/CULT.2021.0231","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, kerbstones are analysed as historical actors that participated in the changes of urban space and street traffic during the hundred years between the 1880s and the 1980s. Using the approach of new materialism and a large photographic source material from the Finnish city Turku, the article provides a new perspective into the tremendous changes many cities went through during this period and proposes possibilities of including non-human actors in the historical analysis of such change. Focusing on non-human actors also sheds new light on human agency. Such actions as moving in street space or planning cities and traffic infrastructure appear as co-actions of shifting and affective constellations of soft and hard bodies. In the changing street space, the kerbstone was able to assume both enabling and resisting agency as a rather permanent, hard and persistent presence. In intra-actions with the other bodies of the street space it softened or hardened as a border toward different vehicles, living bodies, materials and artefacts, thus also forming them.","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48264368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural HistoryPub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.3366/CULT.2021.0236
E. Morgan
{"title":"Conor McCarthy, Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature","authors":"E. Morgan","doi":"10.3366/CULT.2021.0236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/CULT.2021.0236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41779,"journal":{"name":"Cultural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44010216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}