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Kern, Stephen Roger was born on January 28, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Seymour and Jessie (Kraus) Kern.
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Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1913
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface 2nd edition by Kern, Stephen (2003) Paperback
(Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technol...)
Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns by Stephen Kern (1992-11-03)
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface
(Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technol...)
Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067402169X/?tag=2022091-20
The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns
( The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in l...)
The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in loving that spanned a period when scientific discoveries reduced the terrors and dangers of sex, when new laws gave married women control over their earnings and their bodies, when bold novelists and artists shook off the prudishness and hypocrisy that so paralyzed the Victorians. As public opinion, family pressure, and religious conviction loosened, men and women took charge of their love. Stephen Kern argues that, in contrast to modern sex, Victorian sex was anatomically constricted, spatially confined, morally suspect, deadly serious, and abruptly over. Kern divides love into its elements and traces profound changes in each: from waiting for love to ending it. Most revealing are the daring ways moderns began to talk about their current lovemaking as well as past lovers. While Victorians viewed jealousy as a "foreign devil," moderns began to acknowledge responsibility for it. Desire lost its close tie with mortal sin and became the engine of artistic creation; women's response to the marriage proposal shifted from mere consent to active choice. There were even new possibilities of kissing, beyond the sudden, blind, disembodied, and censored Victorian meeting of lips. Kern's evidence is mainly literature and art, including classic novels by the Brontës, Flaubert, Hugo, Eliot, Hardy, Forster, Colette, Proust, Mann, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Musil as well as the paintings and sculptures of Millais, Courbet, Gérôme, Rodin, Munch, Klimt, Schiele, Valadon, Chagall, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Picasso, Matisse, and Brancusi. The book's conceptual foundation comes from Heidegger's existential philosophy, in particular his authentic-inauthentic distinction, which Kern adapts to make his overall interpretation and concluding affirmation of the value of authenticity: "The moderns may have lost some of the Victorians' delicacy and poignancy, perhaps even some of their heroism, but in exchange became more reflective of what it means to be a human being in love and hence better able to make that loving more their very own."
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY Kern, Stephen ( Author ) Jul-15-1998 THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY KERN, STEPHEN ( AUTHOR ) JUL-15-1
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY Kern, Stephen ( Author ) Jul-15-1998 THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY KERN, STEPHEN ( AUTHOR ) JUL-15-1998 By Kern, Stephen ( Author )Jul-15-1998 Paperback By Kern, Stephen ( Author ) Paperback 1998
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Stephen Roger Kern
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Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1964; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1970.
Career
Assistant professor of history, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1970-1977; associate professor, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1977-1984; professor, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1984-1988; distinguished research professor, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, since 1988. Honorary research fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1978.
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY Kern, Stephen ( Author ) Jul-15-1998 THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY KERN, STEPHEN ( AUTHOR ) JUL-15-1
(The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns THE CULTURE OF...)
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns
( The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in l...)
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface 2nd edition by Kern, Stephen (2003) Paperback
(Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technol...)
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface
(Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technol...)
- Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1913
- The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns by Stephen Kern (1992-11-03)
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The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY Kern, Stephen ( Author ) Jul-15-1998 THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS BY KERN, STEPHEN ( AUTHOR ) JUL-15-1
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Married Mary Kay Damer, January 3, 1983. Children: Justin, Simone.
