Author: Sarah Byng Osborn
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century, 1721-1771
Author: Sarah Byng Osborn
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century, 1721-1771
Author: Sarah Osborn
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Languages : en
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Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century 1721-1771
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Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Author: April London
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London argues that contemporary novels advanced several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of women to property, ranging from straightforward assertions of equivalence between women and things to subtle explorations of the self-possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Two contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West. While this study focuses on fiction from 1740–1800, it also draws on the historiography, literary criticism and philosophy of the period, and on recent feminist and cultural studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London argues that contemporary novels advanced several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of women to property, ranging from straightforward assertions of equivalence between women and things to subtle explorations of the self-possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Two contemporary models for the defining of selfhood through reference to property structure the book, one historical (classical republicanism and bourgeois individualism), and the other literary (pastoral and georgic). These paradigms offer a cultural context for the analysis of both canonical and less well-known writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West. While this study focuses on fiction from 1740–1800, it also draws on the historiography, literary criticism and philosophy of the period, and on recent feminist and cultural studies.
Dreadful Visitations
Author: Alessa Johns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136683895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines examine eighteenth-century responses to natural disaster, showing how human agency played an active role in the creation of destructive circumstances, and how these disasters helped to establish national and moral identities in the Age of Reason. Contributors: David Arnold, Daniel Gordon, Carla Hesse, George Starr, Alan Taylor, Steven Tobriner and Charles Walker.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136683895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines examine eighteenth-century responses to natural disaster, showing how human agency played an active role in the creation of destructive circumstances, and how these disasters helped to establish national and moral identities in the Age of Reason. Contributors: David Arnold, Daniel Gordon, Carla Hesse, George Starr, Alan Taylor, Steven Tobriner and Charles Walker.
The Contemporary Review
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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The Confucian Cycle
Author: William A. Taylor
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622879635
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. He taught that when government officials sought personal power or wealth instead of taking care of the people, society lost the “Mandate of Heaven” and fell apart. By “Mandate of Heaven,” Confucius meant that God Himself had directed how society should work. Chinese history shows 15 or 20 collapses when government lost virtue and the country broke apart in civil war, but whenever the Chinese followed Confucius’ rules, Chinese society worked well. From his day to ours, civilizations all over the world have followed the same cycle Confucius observed. Today’s United States is well into the “stagnation” phase and many observers predict a collapse. But America has an advantage Confucius never imagined. Unlike the Chinese, America’s voters have the power to replace their rulers and reform their government without armed revolution. The Taylors’ wide-ranging tour through history, culture, and modern news sheds new light on how the past both predicts the future and can be used to alter it for the better. Keywords – China, America, Sage, Confucius, Government, Trade, Exports, Imports, Money, Economy, History, Culture, Rulers, Voting, War, Policy
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622879635
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. He taught that when government officials sought personal power or wealth instead of taking care of the people, society lost the “Mandate of Heaven” and fell apart. By “Mandate of Heaven,” Confucius meant that God Himself had directed how society should work. Chinese history shows 15 or 20 collapses when government lost virtue and the country broke apart in civil war, but whenever the Chinese followed Confucius’ rules, Chinese society worked well. From his day to ours, civilizations all over the world have followed the same cycle Confucius observed. Today’s United States is well into the “stagnation” phase and many observers predict a collapse. But America has an advantage Confucius never imagined. Unlike the Chinese, America’s voters have the power to replace their rulers and reform their government without armed revolution. The Taylors’ wide-ranging tour through history, culture, and modern news sheds new light on how the past both predicts the future and can be used to alter it for the better. Keywords – China, America, Sage, Confucius, Government, Trade, Exports, Imports, Money, Economy, History, Culture, Rulers, Voting, War, Policy
Report of the Committee in Charge of the Friends' Free Library and Reading Room
Author: Friends' Free Library and Reading Room
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Winchester Long Rolls, 1653-1812
Author: Winchester College
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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