Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Machines in the mid - Nineteenth

This article traces the changes and continuities in fictional stories of serial murder in London from the late-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, it shows how changes in the primary audience for metropolitan popular culture necessitated dramatic shifts in the tale of serial killing and narratives of violence. Thus, by the nineteenth century, as the lower classes h...

The Role of the German Researchers in the Formation of Islamic Art Studies

In the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the increasing interest of the Europeans in the culture of the East, the first articles on the Islamic art and culture were appeared in German-speaking countries. In the mid nineteenth century, some entries in German encyclopedias were devoted to Islamic art, and from the end of the century, the first monographs on Islamic architecture and orname...

Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the Nineteenth Century

During the nineteenth century in London, the focus of attention came to be on the “existence of great poverty in the midst of plenty.” 1 Opinions of the origin of this poverty varied. A popular opinion among the upper classes of society was that a lack of morality among the poor had bred a culture of poverty, and that poor relief promoted this pauperism. 2 However, a culture of poverty was not ...

Non-Discrimination in European Tax Law: General Remarks Introduction 13.1.1. Purpose and scope of the study

A first encounter with the ECJ’s body of case law in the area of direct taxation may cause a sense of bewilderment. Several judgments seem difficult to reconcile or even contradictory. However, a closer reading often reveals slight distinctions and subtle nuances. Apparent contradictions are frequently reconcilable on the basis of those distinctions and nuances. As Walt Whitman wrote in his sem...

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism