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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture
Book SynopsisThis informative account of modern British culture embraces controversy and debate, and never loses sight of the fact that Britain and Britishness must always be understood in relation to the increasingly international context of globalisation.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction: modern British culture Michael Higgins, Clarissa Smith and John Storey; 1. Becoming British John Storey; 2. Language developments in British English David Crystal; 3. Schooling and culture Ken Jones; 4. The changing character of political communication John Street; 5. Contemporary Britain and its regions John Tomaney; 6. Contemporary British cinema Sarah Street; 7. Contemporary British fiction Patricia Waugh; 8. Contemporary British poetry Alex Goody; 9. Theatre in modern British culture Michael Mangan; 10. Contemporary British television Jane Arthurs; 11. British art in the twenty-first century Valerie Reardon; 12. British fashion Caroline Evans; 13. Sport in contemporary Britain Ellis Cashmore; 14. British sexual cultures Clarissa Smith; 15. British popular music, popular culture and exclusivity Sheila Whiteley; 16. British newspapers today Michael Higgins; 17. The struggle for ethno-religious equality in Britain: the place of the Muslim community Tariq Madood; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rilke Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Covering topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts, it paints a picture of a nation rich in cultural diversity.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Map; Culture of 'Japanese culture': an overview Yoshio Sugimoto; 1. Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture, the Japanese Harumi Befu; 2. Japan's emic conceptions Takami Kuwayama; 3. Language Hugh Clarke; 4. Family culture Anne Imamura; 5. School culture Kaori H. Okano; 6. Work culture Ross Mouer; 7. Technological culture Morris Low; 8. Religious culture Stephen Covell; 9. Political culture Takashi Inoguchi; 10. Buraku culture Hideo Aoki; 11. Literature Toshiko Ellis; 12. Popular leisure Sepp Linhart; 13. Manga, anime and visual art culture Craig Norris; 14. Music culture Junko Kitagawa; 15. Housing culture Ann Waswo; 16. Food culture Naomichi Ishige; 17. Sports culture Miho Koishikawa; 18. Globalisation and cultural nationalism Takashi Inoguchi; 19. Export of cultural goods Ross Mouer and Craig Norris.
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Book SynopsisKierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a classic of existential literature, the text that philosophers look to first when attempting to define Kierkegaard's own philosophy. This volume offers the work in a new translation by Alastair Hannay, together with an introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical contexts.Trade Review'Aesthetically, it is a masterpiece: it brings Climacus to life in English as never before; it expertly initiates the reader into the Postscript's riddles and satisfactions. It is, in sum, ideal for the non-specialist reader - and the clear best choice for the undergraduate classroom.' David D. Possen, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the translation; Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Book SynopsisThis Companion focuses on British and American war writing, across centuries, forms and themes, to allow both local and comparative approaches. The chronology synthesises the key texts from each historical and contemporary war. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes suggestions for further reading.Trade Review'… timely and relevant.' Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Kate McLoughlin; Part I. Themes: 1. The idea of war Hew Strachan; 2. War and words Kate McLoughlin; 3. People in war Sarah Cole; 4. War zones Adam Piette; 5. War in print journalism Kate McLoughlin; Part II. Influences: 6. The Bible David Jasper; 7. Classical war literature L. V. Pitcher; Part III. Poetics: 8. Medieval warfare Corinne Saunders; 9. Early modern war writing and the British Civil Wars Philip West; 10. The eighteenth century and the Romantics on war Gillian Russell; 11. American Revolutionary War writing Edward Larkin; 12. The Victorians and war John R. Reed; 13. The American Civil War Will Kaufman; 14. The First World War: British writing Trudi Tate; 15. The First World War: American writing Patrick Quinn; 16. The Spanish Civil War Valentine Cunningham; 17. The Second World War: British writing Mark Rawlinson; 18. The Second World War: American writing Walter Hölbling; 19. American writing of the wars in Korea and Vietnam Jeffrey Walsh; 20. The Cold War and the 'War on Terror' David Pascoe; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Frankfurt School Jewish Lives and Antisemitism
Book SynopsisThe history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help to explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significance of antisemitism. In the post-Second World War era, the differing relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish origins illuminate their distinctive stances toward Israel. This book investigates how the Jewish backgrounds of major Critical Theorists, and the ways in which they related to their origins, impacted upon their work, the history of the Frankfurt School, and differences that emerged among them over time.Trade Review'… The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism is in part biographically based, revealing the essence of thinkers' hearts and lives while avoiding anecdotal trivia … thanks to Jacobs' lucid presentation …' Benjamin Ivry, The Jewish Daily Forward'Methodologically, the book does an excellent job; the sources are impressive, the language is clear and easy to read. In short: Jack Jacobs has written a new standard work on the history of the Institute of Social Research, that, at the same time, enriches our view of Jewish history in the twentieth century.' Philipp Lenhard, Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute'… an outstanding piece of scholarship … Well documented … and well argued, it is certainly destined to become the main reference for any future research on the questions involved … important and insightful.' Michael Löwy, New Politics'Jack Jacobs's The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism is a unique and valuable contribution to the secondary literature on the history of the Institute for Social Research and Critical Theory more generally … He demonstrates a firm command of the dauntingly extensive secondary literature on Critical Theory in both English and German … Even more impressive is the extensive primary source research Jacobs has conducted in a wide variety of archives in Europe, the United States, and Israel.' John Abromeit, The German Quarterly'No subsequent discussion … will be able to ignore the wealth of new material he has unearthed, the care and balance of his judgments, and the salutary caution he has exercised in presenting them.' Martin Jay, The German Quarterly'… Jacobs succeeds in teaching us something new, and, more importantly, something quite valuable. Not only does his book aim to present Critical Theory in a new light, but it also serves as a superb case study in how politically unaligned members of the German left-wing intelligentsia maneuvered - to borrow the title of George Mosse's book - as 'German Jews beyond Judaism'.' Thomas Wheatland, The German Quarterly'To anyone seriously interested in the questions Jacobs raises … his book offers a careful and thought-provoking engagement of the relevant material. Jacobs's style of presentation, I would argue, bears testimony not only to the commonplace wisdom that authors are never entirely in control of their texts, but also to Jacobs's many years of close engagement of Critical Theory and his own deep-seated affinity with its concerns.' Lars Fischer, The German Quarterly'Jack Jacobs's The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism will be a major resource for many of us working in Critical Theory. Even-handed, clearly presented, and extensively researched, with seventy-eight pages of footnotes, the book's overarching thesis is both simple and urgent … Jacobs's book offers scholars an enduring resource in future work on the Jewishness of the Frankfurt School …' Joan Braune, Critical Research on ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Jewish life paths and the Institute of Social Research in the Weimar Republic; 2. The Institute of Social Research and the significance of antisemitism: the exile years; 3. Critical theorists and the state of Israel; 4. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Romantic Economist
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann
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Cambridge University Press Shock Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction 69 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 69
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Cambridge University Press Romance Diaspora and Black Atlantic Literature 159 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 159
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Cressida
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Cambridge University Press Northanger Abbey
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Cambridge University Press Pride and Prejudice
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Cambridge University Press The Paradoxes of Art
Book SynopsisIn this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist.Trade Review"By the unique application of the phenomenological notion of being-in-the-world, he is able to expand and clarify people's understanding of the situations in which transactions with art take place, thus shedding light on questions of interpretation, artistic ambiguity, aesthetic attitude, and the definition of artworks." -R.M. Davis, Albion College, Choice"Paskow's book is lucid and well written...the book remains an important contribution to the literature on our engagement with art." Sarah Worth, Furman University, Notre Dame Philosophical Review"...Paskow aims to establish the 'ontological status of fictional beings' and pursue the bold and ambitious claim that fictional beings are 'quasi-real.' Mindful of the fact that many readers will be skeptical of such a position, he carefully rehearses the relevant problems in analytic philosophy before unfolding the challenge his undertaking presents. He does this in an altogether engaging and lucid prose that not only makes the book accessible to readers unfamiliar with its debate but also provides scholars with a precision often lacking in such writing." Michael Belshaw, Loughborough University, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"This, I believe, is a significant contribution, not just to the debate about why art matters to us but also to the wider question of how we consciously inhabit the world...[The Paradoxes of Art] is of particular relevance given that the discourses of art, philosophy, and consciousness are rapidly converging..." Robert Pepperell, Leonardo On-lineTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The reality of fictional beings; 2. Things in our world; 3. Why and how others matter; 4. Why and how a painting matters; 5. For and against interpretation.
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Cambridge University Press The Anthropology of Texts Persons and Publics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 11001500
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Media in Ireland
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies
Book SynopsisIntroducing the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline, this book provides thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in the study of both historical and contemporary theatrical performances. Emphasizing all the main theatrical genres - drama, opera and dance - the volume provides students with a comparative, integrated perspective.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: theatre and theatre studies; Part I. Elements of Theatre: 1. Performers and actors; 2. Spectators and audiences; 3. Spaces and places; Part II. Subjects and Methods: 4. Theories of theatre 1: Historical paradigms; 5 Theories of theatre 2: Systematic and critical approaches; 6. Theatre historiography; 7. Text and performance; 8. Performance analysis; 9. Music theatre; 10. Dance theatre; Part III. Theatre Studies between Disciplines: 11. Applied theatre; 12. Theatre and media.
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Cambridge University Press Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to African American Womens Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period
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Cambridge University Press Sophocles
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Irish Short Story
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisThis Companion surveys the history and contexts of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to Harry Potter. Essential reading for all students of children's literature, this book offers both a wealth of information and original research that reflects the latest developments in the field.Trade Review'… concise, stimulating comments on other school stories from the late 20th century, such as Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, help cast the conventions and conventionality of the Harry Potter books into relief and draw attention to the numerous alternative school stories out there.' www.parentcentral.ca'The Cambridge Companion, lucid, entertaining, and with hardly a word wasted, locates itself in an accessible, mainstream position, and generally does an outstanding job of playing critical and historical catch-up on its more established literary fellow disciplines … beautiful to behold - books to cheer the bookperson's heart, and the inclusion in the series of a volume on Children's Literature, especially one as good as this, should be the cause of unalloyed delight.' Modern Language Review' … excellent, straightforward collection that covers the fundamentals. It is also a collection that inspires readers to delve deeper … provides a perfect sampling of scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students, but this collection should also appeal to established scholars and experts in the field.' MuseTable of ContentsPreface M. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel; Chronology Eric J. Johnson; Part I. Contexts and Genres: 1. The origins of children's literature M. O. Grenby; 2. Children's books and the constructions of childhood Andrea Immel; 3. The making of children's books Brian Alderson; 4. Picture book worlds and ways of seeing Katie Trumpener; 5. The fear of poetry Richard Flynn; 6. Retelling stories across time and cultures John Stephens; 7. Classics and canons Deborah Stevenson; Part II. Audiences: 8. Learning to be literate Lissa Paul; 9. Gender roles in children's fiction Judy Simons; 10. Children's texts and the grown-up reader U. C. Knoepfelmacher; 11. Ideas of difference in children's literature Lynne Vallone; Part III. Forms and Themes: 12. Changing families in children's fiction Kimberley Reynolds; 13. Traditions of the school story Mavis Reimer; 14. Fantasy's alternative geography for children Andrea Immel, U. C. Knoepfelmacher and Julia Briggs; 15. Animal and object stories David Rudd; 16. Humour and the body in children's literature Roderick McGillis; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rilke
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Shakespeares Text TwentiethCentury Editorial Theory and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Drama
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and the Russian People
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Cambridge University Press Women on the Stage in Early Modern France
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Moral Feeling
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Moral Feeling
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Cambridge University Press Botmimicry in Digital Literary Culture
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Cambridge University Press Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence
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Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press George Eliots Intellectual Life
Book SynopsisGeorge Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of history, literature, philosophy and political thought shaped her fiction and her non-fiction. This intellectual biography tells the story of her development from her initial Christian culture towards a humanistic and progressive world view which informed her crowning literary achievements.Trade Review"One strength of the book is that it returns to some of Eliot's essays, attending not only to the points that have been central to recent critical discussion, but also drawing out elements that have been overlooked." --Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The 'evangelical': starting out in a Christian culture; 2. The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos; 3. The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview; 4. The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers; 5. The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and myth-making; 6. The historian: tracking the idealistic - utopian and national - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy; 7. The 'radical': taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt; 8. The encyclopaedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch; 9. The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; 10. The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Works cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Death of Nietzsches Zarathustra
Book SynopsisIn this study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a new account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence.Trade Review'It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the challenge this book poses to the standard and currently authoritative interpretations of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Paul Loeb's careful exegesis and persuasive argumentation will oblige most of the leading Nietzsche scholars working today to revisit - and, in many cases, to revise - their interpretations accordingly. An impressive achievement by any measure.' Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University'This is a provocative, novel, and erudite attempt to thread a philosophical path through the enigmatic and labyrinthine work that Nietzsche consistently considered to be his masterpiece. Paul S. Loeb establishes one of the strongest readings yet of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, arguing in a spirited, polemical, and rigorous manner that Zarathustra's story interweaves narrative and concept to develop a startling idea of post-human temporality. Readers will find here new and powerful views of Nietzsche's thoughts of eternal recurrence and the Übermensch, and suggestions of how these illuminate the program of overcoming ressentiment in his Genealogy of Morals.' Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond'In this careful, innovative, and nuanced study, Loeb … develops an alternative to standard doctrinal and ironist readings of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra by revealing how its literary structure expresses the philosophical significance of the otherwise enigmatic teaching of the eternal return of the same … Highly recommended …' E. S. Nelson, Choice'Paul Loeb's The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra is a superb contribution to the philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche's notoriously most inaccessible book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra … Loeb's book presents an ingeniously argued and richly insightful interpretation of Nietzsche's literary fiction that pointedly and often persuasively takes issue with each of the major TSZ commentaries to have been published within the last twenty-five years or so … an immediately indispensable and, again, excellent contribution to the literature on TSZ …' Robert Gooding-Williams, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Because the Genealogy [of Morals] is widely taken to be Nietzsche's most important work, Loeb's attempt to resolve its paradoxes by reference to the doctrines of Zarathustra is both important and timely … This book includes … a final chapter that promises to provide several thesis topics for graduate students interested in Nietzsche's moral thought.' Bryan Finken, Philosophy in Review'Loeb's book is much bolder and potentially more compelling than the great commentaries, because its boldness rests solidly on the boldness of Nietzsche himself - this is the most literal reading of Nietzsche's masterpiece to date, literal in the sense that it dares to take Nietzsche at his word where others have ascribed metaphoricity and other rhetorical functions to him.' Adrian Del Caro, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies'This book constitutes an 'event' in Nietzsche studies and is one of the most important books published in recent years on Nietzsche in the English-speaking world. It is both scholarly and immensely challenging.' Keith Ansell Pearson, University of WarwickTable of ContentsPreface; Texts and citations; Introduction: the clue to the riddles; 1. The eternal recurrence of the same; 2. Demon or god?; 3. The dwarf and the gateway; 4. The great noon; 5. The laughing lions; 6. The shepherd and the serpent; 7. Circulus vitiosus deus; 8. Post-Zarathustra; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Russian Thought
Book SynopsisThe history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of RusTrade Review'Professor Derek Offord says A History of Russian Thought, published this month by Cambridge University Press will be of interest to anyone interested in discovering the origins of present day Russia's nationalistic, religious and authoritarian preoccupations.' Bristol Evening PostTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction William Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord; 2. The political and social order David Saunders; 3. Russian intelligentsias Gary Hamburg; Part II. Intellectual Currents: 4. Russia's eighteenth-century Enlightenment Gareth Jones; 5. Conservatism in the age of Alexander I and Nicholas I William Leatherbarrow; 6. Nihilism Richard Peace; 7. Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature Gary Saul Morson; 8. Religious renaissance in the Silver Age Ruth Coates; Part III. Themes and Constructs: 9. The West Vera Tolz; 10. The East David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; 11. The people Derek Offord; 12. The intelligentsia and capitalism Wayne Dowler; 13. Natural science Charles Ellis; Part IV. The Afterlife of Classical Thought: 14. Continuities in the Soviet period Galin Tihanov; 15. Dialectical materialism and Soviet science in the 1920s and 1930s Daniel Todes and Nikolai Krementsov; 16. Afterword James Scanlan; Biographical appendix; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England
Book SynopsisThis pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware pubTable of Contents1. The problem with reading: history and theory in the culture of Georgian England; Part I. Origins: 2. 'Many sketches and scraps of sentiments': what is a commonplace book?; 3. A very short history of commonplacing; 4. Commonplacing modernity: enlightenment and the necessity of note-taking; Part II. Form and Matter: 5. 'A sort of register or orderly collection of things: Locke and the organisation of wisdom; 6. The importance of being epigrammatic; 7. Manufacturing an encyclopaedia; Part III. Readers and Reading: 8. Critical autonomy and readership; 9. Dexterity and textuality: the experience of reading; Part IV. Ancient and Modern: 10. Sounding the muses' lyre: rhetoric and neo-classicism; 11. Invention and imitation: practising the art of composition; Part V. Texts and Tastes: 12. Taming the Bard: dramatic readings; 13. Commonplacing and the modern canon; Part VI. Anatomising the Self: 14. The selfish narrator; 15. Self-made news; 16. Reading excursions: on being transported; Envoi: 17. The rise of the novel and the fall of commonplacing: conjoined narratives?; Bibliography; Index.
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