1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460601903321

Autore

Knott Sarah <1972->

Titolo

Sensibility and the American Revolution / / Sarah Knott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4696-0081-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

973.3/1

Soggetti

Sensitivity (Personality trait) - Social aspects - United States - History - 18th century

Sensitivity (Personality trait) - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century

Self-perception - United States - History - 18th century

Social interaction - United States - History - 18th century

Community life - United States - History - 18th century

Political culture - United States - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects

United States Social life and customs 1775-1865

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Transatlantic Conduits; CHAPTER 1 Print, Booksellers, and the Sentimental; CHAPTER 2 Medicine, Physicians, and the Nervous; PART II: American Circles; CHAPTER 3 Sentimental Coteries: A Quartet of Types; CHAPTER 4 The War for Independence; CHAPTER 5 Shaping the New Republic; PART III: Transatlantic Backlash; CHAPTER 6 Wars of Words: Radicalism, Youth, and Reaction; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465066003321

Autore

Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich

Titolo

After 1945 [[electronic resource] ] : latency as origin of the present / / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8616-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

801/.95092

B

Soggetti

Critics - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in German under the title Nach 1945."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- One Car Away from Death: An Overture -- Chapter 1. Emergence of Latency ? -- Chapter 2. Forms of Latency -- Chapter 3. No Exit and No Entry -- Chapter 4. Bad Faith and Interrogations -- Chapter 5. Derailment and Containers -- Chapter 6. Effects of Latency -- Chapter 7. Unconcealment of Latency? -- The Form of This Book -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging and threatening inevitabilities: nuclear annihilation, global warming, overpopulation. Overwhelmed by these horizons, we live in an ever broadening present. In identifying the prevailing mood of the post-World War II decade as that of "latency," Gumbrecht returns to the era when this change in the pace and structure of time emerged and shows how it shaped the trajectory of his own postwar generation. Those born after 1945, and especially those born in Germany, would have liked nothing more than to put the catastrophic events and explosions of the past behind them, but that possibility remained foreclosed or just out of reach. World literatures and cultures of the postwar years reveal this to have been a broadly shared predicament: they hint at promises unfulfilled and obsess over



dishonesty and bad faith; they transmit the sensation of confinement and the inability to advance. After 1945 belies its theme of entrapment. Gumbrecht has never been limited by narrow disciplinary boundaries, and his latest inquiry is both far-ranging and experimental. It combines autobiography with German history and world-historical analysis, offering insightful reflections on Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, detailed exegesis of the thought of Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre, and surprising reflections on cultural phenomena ranging from Edith Piaf to the Kinsey Report. This personal and philosophical take on the last century is of immediate relevance to our identity today.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996210116703316

Titolo

Proceedings : IEEE/Cornell Conference on Advanced Concepts in High-Speed Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, August 2-4, 1993, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York / / sponsored by IEEE Electron Devices Society and the U.S. Army Research Office in cooperation with IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and Cornell University

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IEEE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia