This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.
Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.
This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period''s experimental fiction.
Suicide Century investigates suicide as an increasingly ''normalised'' but still deeply traumatic and profoundly baffling act in twentieth-century writing.
Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.