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The city as anthology : eroticism andurbanity in early modern Isfahan / Kathryn Babayan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Babayan, Kathryn, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Stanford scholarship online.
- Stanford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthologies--History--17th century.
- Anthologies.
- Art, Safavid--Iran--Isfahan--17th century.
- Art, Safavid.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan centre of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents - from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat - who anthologised their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- Introduction The Adab of Urbanity
- Chapter 1 Imperial Visions of Sovereignty
- Chapter 2 Collecting, Self-Fashioning, and Community
- Chapter 3 Disturbing the City
- Chapter 4 Cultivating and Disciplining Friendship Letter
- Chapter 5 Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy
- Conclusion The Erotics of Urbanity
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503627833
- 1503627837
- OCLC:
- 1248760146
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