Katharina Boehm

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Victorian Old Age (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from th...

Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

The first in-depth study of Dickens's creative engagement with popular science and medicine, this book brings to light the scientific entertainments, shows and institutions, and the material and print cultures that revolutionized the ways in which Victorian audiences encountered childhood. It explor...

Sigmar Polke: Windows for the Zurich Grossmunster

Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossmunster cathedral in Zurich, setting new standards for the mutual relationship between art and church. One group of seven Romanesque windows shows luminous mosaics of thinly sliced agate, some of it artificially colored,...

Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

In the nineteenth century, the relationship between the human body and the object world was redefined by momentous social, cultural, and scientific changes. This book traces the emergence of an exciting range of ideas about materiality, phenomenological experience, and the realm of objects in ninete...

Cy Twombly: Series Sobre Paper 1959-1987