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On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought, Cornell University Press, 2011
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The Rise of Fashion: A Reader, University of Minnesota Press, 2004
“Purdy's choice of material is diverse, ranging from the humorous to the poignant, from studies of sexual "deviations" to dialectics and economic theories, and his judicious and creative selection reveals the depth of his research and an enviable ease with European literature of the modern period.” Fashion Theory, 11 (2007);
Reviewed in Dress, 35 (2005); Women in French Studies, 14 (2006); Journal of Popular Culture 39.3 (May 2006) |
The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
“This outstanding book should be on the reading list of every course about the Age of Goethe.” South Atlantic Review, 64 (1999)
Reviewed in German Quarterly, 73 (2000); German Studies Review, 27 (2004); Monatshefte, 92 (2000); Seminar, 38 (2002); Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 29 (2002) |
Germans Beyond Europe
The Penn State Press announces the expanded scope of its Max Kade Research Institute Series. This series is an outlet for scholarship that examines the history and culture of German-speaking communities across the globe, from the early modern period to the present. The series remains dedicated to publishing scholarship with a focus on German-American networks, and it welcomes the addition of scholarship on German speakers out- side of Europe, whose movements were influenced by migration trends, colonization, war, research, religious missions, trade, and other forces. Editors seek scholarship that explores the historical and cultural depictions of the international networks that connected these communities and the linguistic relations between German and other languages. Books in this series will expand our understanding of the German-speaking diaspora and the worldwide influence of these historic global networks. The series seek manuscripts that examine topics such as German participation in international trade and exploration; the history of German Orientalism; the history of nineteenth-century German colonialism; the transplantation of German culture outside of Europe—to the Americas and elsewhere; anthropological accounts of non-European cultures; Northern European involvement in the slave trade; and the intellectual history of cosmopolitan theory.. This series is an outlet for scholarship that examines the history and culture of German-speaking communities across the globe, from the early modern period to the start of the First World War. The series remains dedicated to publishing scholarship with a focus on German-American networks, and it welcomes the addition of scholarship on German speakers out- side of Europe, whose movements were influenced by migration trends, colonization, war, research, religious missions, trade, and other forces. Editors seek scholarship that explores the historical and cultural depictions of the international networks that connected these communities and the linguistic relations between German and other languages. Books in this series will expand our understanding of the German-speaking diaspora and the worldwide influence of these historic global networks. Send Proposals to Daniel Purdy, dlp14@psu.edu |
