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  • Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor

    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The ... Read more

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  • Love, Etc.

    Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture

    The look of love . . . through an analytic lensLong treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to literature and culture. How are our attitudes to love changing ... Read more

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