Francia-Italia : sistemi istituzionali a confronto : incontri tra la Commissione des Lois dell'Assemblea nazionale e la Commissione affari costituzionali della Camera dei deputati : Versailles, novembre 1983-Roma, gennaio 1985 / Camera dei deputati

• Record Nr.: UNINA990008233340403321
• Autore: Italia. Camera dei deputati
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Roma : Camera dei Deputati. Ufficio stampa e pubblicazioni, 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 334 p. ; 21 cm
• Collana: Quaderni di studi e legislazione ; 36
• Locazione: DDCIC
• Collocazione: XXVII 76
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The fabrication of American literature [[electronic resource] ] : fraudulence and antebellum print culture / / Lara Langer Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788669403321
• Autore: Cohen Lara Langer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-89117-4; 0-8122-0519-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Material Texts
• Disciplina: 810.9/003
• Soggetti: American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism; Truthfulness and falsehood in literature; Fraud in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. American Literary Fraudulence -- Chapter 1. ''One Vast Perambulating Humbug'': Literary Nationalism and the Rise of the Puffing System -- Chapter 2. Backwoods and Blackface: The Strange Careers of Davy Crockett and Jim Crow -- Chapter 3. ''Slavery Never Can Be Represented'': James Williams and the Racial Politics of Imposture -- Chapter 4. Mediums of Exchange: Fanny Fern's Unoriginality -- Conclusion. The Confidence Man on a Large Scale -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine. Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song sheets, and early literary criticism, and revisiting such familiar figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett, Fanny Fern, and Herman Melville, Lara Langer Cohen uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued these years and uses them to offer an ambitious rethinking of the antebellum print ; explosion. She traces the checkered fortunes of American literature from the rise of literary nationalism, which was beset by accusations of puffery, to the conversion of fraudulence from a national dilemma into a sorting mechanism that produced new racial, regional, and gender identities. Yet she also shows that even as fraudulence became a sign of marginality, some authors managed to turn their dubious reputations to account, making a virtue of their counterfeit status. This forgotten history, Cohen argues, presents a dramatically altered picture of American literature's role in antebellum culture, one in which its authority is far from assured, and its failures matter as much as its achievements.

Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / / Rachel Laudan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807969403321
• Autore: Laudan Rachel <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-520-28631-6; 1-78402-600-X; 0-520-95491-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages)
• Collana: California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 43; California studies in food and culture ; ; 43
• Disciplina: 641.5
• Soggetti: Cooking - History; Food habits - History; Food - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-438) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mastering grain cookery, 20,000-300 B.C.E. -- The barley-wheat sacrificial cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 B.C.E. -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of South and East Asia, 260 B.C.E.-800 C.E. -- Islam transforms the cuisines of Central and West Asia, 800-1650 C.E. -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and ; the Americas, 100-1650 C.E. -- Prelude to modern cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1800 -- Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920 -- Modern cuisines: the globalization of middling cuisines, 1920-2000.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines-from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present-in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in "culinary philosophy"-beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods-prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.