UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification 2021/22 Winter
Section outline
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John Stuart Mill, "Nature," from Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism (1874), 28-31 and 65.
N. G. Chernyshevskii, excerpt from "Vera Pavlovna's Fourth Dream," from What Is to Be Done? (1863).
F. M. Dostoevsky, from Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863).
Further resources:
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, “The space of glass architecture,” The Railway Journey (1986), 50–56.
Katia Dianina, "Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade," Slavic Review 62 (2003): 237–257.
Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition (1851)
John R. Davis, The Great Exhibition (1999)
Jeffrey A. Auerbach, The Great Exhibition of 1851: A nation on display (1999)
Zsuzsa Farkas, “A kultúra tövébe fészkelt ország: A világkiállításokon bemutatott magyar művek kortárs értékelése, 1851-1878,” Aetas 27 (2012): 136-158.
Anthony Swift, "Russia and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Representations, perceptions, and a missed opportunity," Jahrb. f. Geschichte Osteuropas 55 (2007): 242-263.
V. Aronov, "Rossiia na pervoi Vsemirnoi vystavke," Artkommunalka (2009).
Geoffrey Cantor, "Science, providence, and progress at the Great Exhibition," Isis 103 (2012): 439-459.
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