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Author:   Robert Fraser
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319886107

ISBN 10:   331988610
Pages:   211
Publication Date:   04 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Culture as Migration. 2. Is There a Gibbon in The House? Migration, Postcoloniality and the Rise and Fall of Europe. 3. Roma and Roaming: Borders, Nomads and Myth. 4. Of Sirens, Science and Oyster Shells: Hypatia the Mathematician from Gibbon to Black Athena. 5. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia (1): English Listeners in Italy. 6. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia (2): Milton, Ruskin and Protestant Longing. 7. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia (3): Purcell, the Popish Plot and the Politics of Latin. 8. Migrant Consciences in the Age of Empire: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising. 9. Beyond the National Stereotype: Benedict Anderson and the Bengal Emergency of 1905-6. 10. Migrating Stories: How Textbooks Fired a Canon. 11. Towards a New World Order: Literacy, Democracy and Literature in India and Africa, 1930-65.- 12. World Music: Steve Reich Listening to Africa, Geoergy Ligeti listening to Reich. 13. A Cultural Cosmopolis.

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Robert Fraser is Professor Emeritus of English at the Open University, UK. He has previously taught and researched in Africa, Asia, the Gulf, and the UK, and held academic positions at Trinity College, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, London, and the University of Leeds. His books include studies of Proust and the English, and of the origins and influence of Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, biographies of twentieth-century poets, and comparative studies of international print history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the English Association.

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