Emporialism

EmporialismA comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present. Shortlisted for the 2025 First Book Prize presented by the Modernist Studies Association Honorable Mention, for the 2025 Ren Wellek Prize presented by the American Comparative Literature Association This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of

With readings of a range of cultural texts

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and includes discussions of the impacts of cultural practices

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This attempt at a ‘Capital for the 21st century’ asks how commodities

The Plays of Aristophanes is an invaluable collection of comedies from a leading playwright of Ancient Greece