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Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.
The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Empire to the fin de siècle. This book examines examples of visual literature, inspired by the struggles of artists such as Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon (1867), Émile Zola’s Therèse Raquin (1867), Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium” (1895) and “Impressionism” (1883), Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky (1892-1893) and Rachilde’s L’Animale (1893) depict vanguard painters and performers as being like animals, whose unique vision revolted against stifling traditions....
The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918
This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
The Uehling Family, 1627-2002
Frederick Uehling was born in 1816 in Waldfisch, Germany. His father was Johann Caspar Uehling. He married Anna Margaretha Krug in 1836. They had twelve children. They emigrated in 1847 and settled in Richwood, Wisconsin. Several other Uehling families from the same area in Germany emigrated over the next forty years. They settled mainly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California.
Onstott Family Genealogy & History
George Anstott or Johann Georg Anstadt (1718-1778), with his wife, Ann Marie, and his family immigrated (probably in 1747) from Germany to Philadelphia, and settled in Frederick County, Maryland. Descen- dants (chiefly spelling the surname Onstott) and relatives lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, California and elsewhere. Includes some unconnected Onstott lines and some of their descendants. Includes some data about probable ancestry in Germany.
