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  1. Queer universes
    sexualities in science fiction
    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious... more

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    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson’s award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about ‘sextrapolation’ in New Wave science fiction, ‘stray penetration’ in William Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge

     
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    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781781388174
    Subjects: Geschichte; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Gays' writings, American / History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature / United States / History; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Englisch
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  2. A companion to the British and Irish short story
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA

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    ISBN: 9781405145374; 9781444304770
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    RVK Categories: HG 290 ; HG 690
    Edition: This ed. 1. publ.
    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 56
    Blackwell Reference Online
    Subjects: Kurzgeschichte; Englisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 571 S.)
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  3. The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945
    Author: Owomoyela, Oyekan
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9780231512152
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    Series: The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    Subjects: Literary Studies; Literature in Diverse Languages; Other Nations and Languages; West African literature (English); West African literature (English); Schriftsteller; Englisch; Literatur
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  4. In the Anteroom of Divinity
    The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton
    Author: Mohamed, Feisal
    Published: [2016]; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442688322
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Angels in literature; Angels; Christianity and literature; English literature; Rezeption; Engel <Motiv>; Englisch; Reformation; Literatur
    Other subjects: Dionysius Areopagita (ca. 5./6. Jh.)
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  5. The Age of Projects
    Published: [2016]; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442687349
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Civilization, Western; Humanities; Intellectual life; Science and the humanities; Aufklärung; Forschung <Motiv>; Englisch; Fortschritt <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Literatur
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  6. Speaking of the Moor
    From "Alcazar" to "Othello"
    Author: Bartels, Emily C.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    ISBN: 9780812200294; 9780812221015
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    RVK Categories: HI 1250 ; HI 1254
    Subjects: Schwarze <Motiv>; Englisch; Drama
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 252 S.)
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    Biographical note: Emily C. Bartels is Professor of English at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is author of Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe, which also was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press

    Main description: Speaking of the Moor explores why the Moor became a central character on the English stage at the turn of the sixteenth century. Looking closely at key early modern dramatic and historical texts, the book uncovers the Moor's complex identity as a Mediterranean figure poised provocatively between European and non-European worlds
  7. Tragicomic Redemptions
    Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage
    Author: Forman, Valerie
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    Subjects: Wirtschaft <Motiv>; Tragikomödie; Englisch; Drama
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    Biographical note: Valerie Forman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder

    Main description: Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains—new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre—were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another
  8. The Body Economic
    Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400826841
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    Subjects: Mensch <Motiv>; Wirtschaft <Motiv>; Englisch; Roman
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880); Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
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    Main description: The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism
  9. Modernism, Media, and Propaganda
    British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
    Author: Wollaeger, Mark
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400828623
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    Subjects: Medien; Propaganda; Englisch; Roman
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    Main description: Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today's highly propagandized world. Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce
  10. Portable Property
    Victorian Culture on the Move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400828937
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    Subjects: Besitz <Motiv>; Nationalcharakter; Englisch; Kultur; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (288 S.)
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    Main description: What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readily travel abroad as personifications of Britishness. At the same time a radically new relationship between cash value and sentimental associations arose in certain resonant mementoes--in teacups, rings, sprigs of heather, and handkerchiefs, but most of all in books. Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions
  11. Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts
    Author: Roston, Murray
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400858460
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; English literature / Middle English, 1100-1500 / History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Visual perception in literature; Art and literature / Europe; Renaissance; Perspective; ART / History / General; Art and literature; English literature / Early modern; English literature / Middle English; Geschichte; Darstellende Kunst; Literatur; Mittelenglisch; Renaissance; Englisch; Kunst; Ikonographie
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    Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
  12. The Self as Mind
    Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats
    Author: Rzepka, Charles J.
    Published: [1986]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  13. Fleeting Things
    English Poets and Poems, 1616–1660
    Author: Hammond, Gerald
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  14. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Author: Auerbach, Nina
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674418899; 9780674418882
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    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
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    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage
  15. Closer to Home
    Writers and Places in England, 1780–1830
    Author: Sale, Roger
    Published: [1986]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  16. Linguistic sex roles in conversation
    social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English
    Author: Preisler, Bent
    Published: c1986
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    ISBN: 0899252257; 3110110814; 9783110110814; 9783110862973
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    Series: Contributions to the sociology of language ; 45
    Subjects: Englisch; Gesellschaft; Conversation; English language; English language; English language; English language; Speech acts (Linguistics); Modalität <Linguistik>; Konversationsanalyse; Sprechakt; Geschlechtsunterschied; Englisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 347 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-312) and index
  17. Literature, Life, and Modernity
    Author: Eldridge, Richard
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Subjects: Literatur; Deutsch; Englisch; Literaturtheorie
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    Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret their lives as subjects in relation to complex economies and technological systems. By imagining themselves in the role of the protagonist or the authorial persona, readers become immersed in structures of sustained attention, under which concrete possibilities of meaningful life, along with difficulties that block their realization, are tracked
  18. Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
    Author: Nord, Deborah Epstein
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the... more

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    Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions.Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the

     
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    ISBN: 9780231510332
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    Subjects: Anglo-American Literature, general; Literary Studies; Literature in Diverse Languages; English literature; English literature; Outsiders in literature; Romanies in literature; Zigeuner <Motiv>; Englisch; Öffentliche Meinung; Literatur; Zigeuner
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  19. Stalking the Subject
    Modernism and the Animal
    Author: Rohman, Carrie
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the... more

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    Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. The Island of Dr. Moreau embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; The Croquet Player thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and Women in Love, St. Mawr, and Nightwood all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues

     
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    Subjects: Biology; Natural Sciences; Zoology; Animals in literature; Animals; English literature; English literature; Tiere <Motiv>; Primitivität <Motiv>; Darwinismus <Motiv>; Literatur; Mensch <Motiv>; Englisch; Rationalität <Motiv>; Das Animalische
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  20. The poet as botanist
    Author: Mahood, M. M.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number, Andrew Marvell put it - by the beauty of flowers. Then, from the middle of the eighteenth century onward, that enjoyment was enriched by a surge of popular interest in botany. Besides... more

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    For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number, Andrew Marvell put it - by the beauty of flowers. Then, from the middle of the eighteenth century onward, that enjoyment was enriched by a surge of popular interest in botany. Besides exploring the relationship between poetic and scientific responses to the green world within the context of humanity's changing concepts of its own place in the ecosphere, Molly Mahood considers the part that flowering plants played in the daily lives and therefore in the literary work of a number of writers who could all be called poet-botanists: Erasmus Darwin, George Crabbe, John Clare, John Ruskin and D. H. Lawrence. A concluding chapter looks closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or obtained in the violent twentieth century

     
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  21. The Burdens of Perfection
    on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature
    Author: Miller, Andrew H.
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or... more

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    "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are."-from The Burdens of PerfectionLiterary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods.Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers

     
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    ISBN: 9780801460838
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    Subjects: Moral <Motiv>; Ethik; Englisch; Literatur
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  22. 'Poetic Justice'
    Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Doktrin. Begriff – Idee – Komödienkonzeption
    Author: Zach, Wolfgang
    Published: [2017]; © 1986
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ;Boston

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110941654
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    Edition: Reprint 2017
    Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 26
    Subjects: Geschichte; Literatur; Theorie; Klassizismus; Komödientheorie; Komödie; Geschichte; Literatur; Begriff; Englisch; Poetische Gerechtigkeit; Gerechtigkeit <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Gay, John (1685-1732)
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  23. Das englische Spätmittelalter. Kulturelle Normen, Lebenspraxis, Texte
    Author: Kohl, Stephan
    Published: [2017]; © 1986
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

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    ISBN: 9783110925890
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    Edition: Reprint 2017
    Series: Studien zur englischen Philologie. Neue Folge ; 24
    Subjects: England; Kultur; Spätmittelalter; Prosa; Kultur; Literatur; Mittelenglisch; Englisch; Zeithintergrund
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  24. The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence
    A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing
    Author: Rosemont, Henry; Ames, Roger T.
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    Few if any philosophical schools have championed family values as persistently as the early Confucians, and a great deal can be learned by attending to what they had to say on the subject. In the Confucian tradition, human morality and the personal... more

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    Few if any philosophical schools have championed family values as persistently as the early Confucians, and a great deal can be learned by attending to what they had to say on the subject. In the Confucian tradition, human morality and the personal realization it inspires are grounded in the cultivation of family feeling. One may even go so far as to say that, for China, family reverence was a necessary condition for developing any of the other human qualities of excellence. On the basis of the present translation of the Xiaojing (Classic of Family Reverence) and supplemental passages found in other early philosophical writings, Professors Rosemont and Ames articulate a specifically Confucian conception of "role ethics" that, in its emphasis on a relational conception of the person, is markedly different from most early and contemporary dominant Western moral theories. This Confucian role ethics takes as its inspiration the perceived necessity of family feeling as the entry point in the development of moral competence and as a guide to the religious life as well.In the lengthy introduction, two senior scholars offer their perspective on the historical, philosophical, and religious dimensions of the Xiaojing. Together with this introduction, a lexicon of key terms presents a context for the Xiaojing and provides guidelines for interpreting the text historically in China as well as suggesting its contemporary significance for all societies. The inclusion of the Chinese text adds yet another dimension to this important study. The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence is sure to appeal to specialists of comparative and Chinese philosophy and to all readers interested in the enduring importance of the family

     
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    ISBN: 9780824864637
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    Subjects: Englisch; Übersetzung
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  25. Telling the Truth
    The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
    Author: Foley, Barbara C.
    Published: [2018]; © 1986
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution... more

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    Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory of mimesis or of the development of genres, and she addresses such key issues as the problem of reference and the nature of generic distinctions. Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781501722899
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    Subjects: Dokumentarroman; Dokumentarliteratur; Englisch; Literatur; Wahrheit
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