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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487513924
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072 7 _aBIO026000
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082 0 4 _a660.092
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRummel, Erika
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Nobel Affair :
_bThe Correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess /
_cErika Rummel.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b3 b&w illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart 1: Nobel’s Letters --
_tPart 2: Hess’s Letters --
_tAppendix --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aAlfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of learning and social progress. The correspondence between Nobel and his Viennese mistress, Sofie Hess, shines a light on his private life and reveals a personality that differs significantly from his public image. The letters show him as a hypochondriac and workaholic and as a paranoid, jealous, and patriarchal lover. Indeed, the relationship between the aging Alfred Nobel and the carefree, spendthrift Sofie Hess will strike readers as dysfunctional and worthy of Freudian analysis. Erika Rummel’s masterful translation and annotations reveal the value of the letters as commentary on 19th century social mores: the concept of honour and reputation, the life of a "kept" woman, the prevalence of antisemitism, the importance of spas as health resorts and entertainment centres, the position of single mothers, and more generally the material culture of a rich bourgeois gentleman. A Nobel Affair is the first translation into English of the complete correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aChemical engineers
_zSweden
_vCorrespondence.
650 4 _aDISCOUNT-B.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781487513924
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487513924
856 4 2 _3Cover
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