Search results for "tag:"Author Kathleen McCarthy""
Princeton University Press Slaves Masters and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy
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£45.00
The University of Chicago Press Womens Culture American Philanthropy and Art
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press American Creed Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil
Book SynopsisIn her incisive history, Kathleen D. McCarthy explores the impact of philanthropy - both giving and volunteerism - on America from 1700 to 1865. What results is a vital reevaluation of public life during the pivotal decades leading up to the Civil War.Trade Review"A tour de force.... [Modern philanthropists] should all read American Creed to be reminded of the traditional impulses and motives that inspired earlier American philanthropists, large and small, to use their money aggressively in the creation and defense of social justice." - Mark Dowie, Los Angeles Times; "While her riveting history of civil society from the founding to the Civil War focuses on philanthropy and religion, it is laced with keen insights into the place of civil disorder, repression, chivalry, and feminism in the American social order. This is history at its best. A work that is truly pertinent to our times." - Benjamin Barber"
£34.20
Cornell University Press I the Poet
Book SynopsisFirst-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studiesincluding the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic I-voice.In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part bTrade ReviewI, the Poet is an excellent, thought-provoking, and significant contribution to the study of Latin poetry. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Voices on the Page 1. Poetry as Conversation 2. Poetry as Performance 3. Poetry That Says "Ego" 4. Poetry as Writing Epilogue: Ovid in Exile
£45.00
The University of Chicago Press American Creed Philanthropy the Rise of Civil
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of civil society and the pivotal role of philanthropy in the search for and exercise of political and economic power, this work will prove useful to anyone interested in American history and government.Trade Review"A tour de force.... [Modern philanthropists] should all read American Creed to be reminded of the traditional impulses and motives that inspired earlier American philanthropists, large and small, to use their money aggressively in the creation and defense of social justice." - Mark Dowie, Los Angeles Times; "While her riveting history of civil society from the founding to the Civil War focuses on philanthropy and religion, it is laced with keen insights into the place of civil disorder, repression, chivalry, and feminism in the American social order. This is history at its best. A work that is truly pertinent to our times." - Benjamin Barber"
£999.99
