Kathleen Kete
Biographic Data
| ID | 161374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Kete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kete |
| SIGNATURE | KETE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France by Anne C. Vila
Reviewed by: Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France by Anne C. Vila Kathleen Kete Anne C. Vila. Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France. Intellectual History of the Modern Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. viii + 267 pp. $65.00 (978–0–8122–4992–7). Suffering Scholars is an engaging book about the maladies des gens de lettres that absorbed the attenti…
Pure Being
Book Review| January 01 2018 Pure Being Coleman, Charly. The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2014). Pp. xi + 402. $40 Kathleen Kete Kathleen Kete Trinity College, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 134–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4261364 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Making Way for Genius: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities —Germaine de Staël , Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier—Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionalist view of ambition prevailed—that is, ambition as morally wrong unless subsumed into a corporate whole—the new regime was marked by a rising tide of competitive individualism. Greater opportunities for…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
Jerrold Seigel. Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750
Modernity and Bourgeois Life is the fifth major book by Jerrold Seigel on the subject of modern life, and it is his most accessible thus far. The book's argument helps explain the internet's success and thus offers a point of entry into the history of Europe to students and others who grew up within its reach. Modernity is defined, Seigel argues, by its web of impersonal long-distance networks. Markets, states, and exchanges of information are de…
Entries
Introduction: Animals and Human Empire
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialised and modernised. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart. As with all the volumes in the illus…
Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary France
Research Article| August 01 2005 Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary France Kathleen Kete Kathleen Kete Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (3): 467–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-3-467 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Kete; Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary Fran…
The Animal /Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives Edited and introduced by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan
2004). The Animal /Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives Edited and introduced by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan. Anthrozoos: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 373-377
At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period , edited by Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman
Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Sahlins
La Rage and the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Context of Rabies in the French Nineteenth Century
RABIES KILLS BY ATTACKING the central nervous system. As medical textbooks today explain it, rabies is an acute viral disease. Infection occurs when the virus is introduced into the system from an open wound, ordinarily through a bite. The virus travels along nerve tissue to the brain. The incubation period is highly variable but lasts on average from four to eight weeks. prodromal period, preceding clinical disease, is marked by fever, headache,…
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialised and modernised. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart. As with all the volumes in the illus…
La Rage and the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Context of Rabies in the French Nineteenth Century
RABIES KILLS BY ATTACKING the central nervous system. As medical textbooks today explain it, rabies is an acute viral disease. Infection occurs when the virus is introduced into the system from an open wound, ordinarily through a bite. The virus travels along nerve tissue to the brain. The incubation period is highly variable but lasts on average from four to eight weeks. prodromal period, preceding clinical disease, is marked by fever, headache,…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
La Rage and the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Context of Rabies in the French Nineteenth Century
RABIES KILLS BY ATTACKING the central nervous system. As medical textbooks today explain it, rabies is an acute viral disease. Infection occurs when the virus is introduced into the system from an open wound, ordinarily through a bite. The virus travels along nerve tissue to the brain. The incubation period is highly variable but lasts on average from four to eight weeks. prodromal period, preceding clinical disease, is marked by fever, headache,…
Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Sahlins
At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period , edited by Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman
The Animal /Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives Edited and introduced by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan
2004). The Animal /Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives Edited and introduced by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan. Anthrozoos: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 373-377
Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary France
Research Article| August 01 2005 Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary France Kathleen Kete Kathleen Kete Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (3): 467–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-3-467 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Kete; Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary Fran…
Introduction: Animals and Human Empire
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialised and modernised. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans further apart. As with all the volumes in the illus…
Entries
Jerrold Seigel. Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750
Modernity and Bourgeois Life is the fifth major book by Jerrold Seigel on the subject of modern life, and it is his most accessible thus far. The book's argument helps explain the internet's success and thus offers a point of entry into the history of Europe to students and others who grew up within its reach. Modernity is defined, Seigel argues, by its web of impersonal long-distance networks. Markets, states, and exchanges of information are de…
Making Way for Genius: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities —Germaine de Staël , Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier—Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionalist view of ambition prevailed—that is, ambition as morally wrong unless subsumed into a corporate whole—the new regime was marked by a rising tide of competitive individualism. Greater opportunities for…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
Pure Being
Book Review| January 01 2018 Pure Being Coleman, Charly. The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2014). Pp. xi + 402. $40 Kathleen Kete Kathleen Kete Trinity College, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 134–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4261364 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France by Anne C. Vila
Reviewed by: Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France by Anne C. Vila Kathleen Kete Anne C. Vila. Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France. Intellectual History of the Modern Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. viii + 267 pp. $65.00 (978–0–8122–4992–7). Suffering Scholars is an engaging book about the maladies des gens de lettres that absorbed the attenti…
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