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Category : Voyages, Imaginary
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Bruce's Voyage to Naples, and Journey Up Mount Vesuvius
Author: Bruce's Voyage to Naples
Author: Inventions of Nemesis
Author: Douglas MaoPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691212309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"Examining utopian writings and other texts that focus on ideal societies, from Greek antiquity to the present, this book offers a fresh take on utopian thought. Mao begins with the observation that utopian ideas often are propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged. In an introduction and three long chapters, he argues that utopia's most basic aim has not been to secure happiness, material welfare, or even order, but instead to establish justice, understood as a condition of right arrangement in which all receive what they ought to receive. Mao's analysis, grounded in literary studies, encompasses a broad range of literary and non-literary works, from canonical utopian writings (Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Bellamy's Looking Backward) to a broad range of other works, including novels and philosophical writings, from Europe and the United States. It considers utopia in relation to the goal of justice, examining at length the question of utopian indignation, and situates utopian imagining in relation to human migration across national boundaries. In the author's view, a rethinking of key assumptions about utopian ideas is important at a time when public interest in utopia is high, and when questions about what an ideal society could mean "have never been more searching.""--
Bibliography of the Geology and Eruptive Phenomena of the More Important Volcanoes of Southern Italy
Author: Henry James Johnston-LavisPublisher:
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Category : Etna, Mount (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Comparative Capital Punishment
Author: Carol S. SteikerPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786433257
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
All the Year Round
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
All the Year Round was a weekly Victorian journal specializing in literature published throughout the United Kingdom. All the Year Round was created and edited by Charles Dickens and featured many of his famous novels including A Tale of Two Cities as well as other Victorian literary achievements. This particular installment is from December 14, 1867 to June 6, 1868, and includes No. 451 to No. 476.
Every Saturday
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Avero
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985
Author: Lyman Tower SargentPublisher: New York : Garland
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description