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The city as anthology : eroticism and urbanity in early modern Isfahan /

"This book offers an exploration of Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth-century anthologies, referred to in Persian as majmu'a and muraqqa', literally a "gathering together" or "patch-work." Thousands of these visual and literary anthologies assembled everyday...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Babayan, Kathryn, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the adab of urbanity
  • Imperial visions of sovereignty
  • Collecting, self-fashioning & community
  • Disturbing the city
  • Cultivating and disciplining friendship letters
  • Family archives and female spaces of intimacy
  • Conclusion : the erotics of urbanity.