Author: Desmond MacCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Lady John Russell
Author: Desmond MacCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Lady John Russell
Author: Elizabeth Von ArnimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lady John Russell; a Memoir, with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence
Author: LADY JOHN RUSSELL A MEMOIR W/S
Author: Desmond 1877-1952 MacCarthyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781374341456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Mad about Belief
Author: Larry D. HarwoodPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725249162
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In this book Larry Harwood situates and evaluates Bertrand Russell’s thought on religion within the context of Russell’s biography. His well-known animus toward religious belief is highlighted and maintained without neglecting his quieter and comparatively unknown quest for something religious. The book argues that while Russell’s critique of religious belief is not unlike that of other thinkers, his superlative prose, extraordinary skill with words, and candor gave him an advantage and audiences beyond competing secular thinkers. Harwood argues that among secularists few have been as vehemently critical of religious belief and believers as Russell, while even fewer have displayed his appetite for some religious truth. The author presses these two antipodes in Russell’s mind to provide a holistic picture of the life and thought of arguably the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. By the conclusion of this study, the reader has witnessed Russell as not only a petulant and abiding critic of religious belief, but also as a thinker who has “carried the burden of God.”
History
Author: The Bookman
Author: The Civil War Years
Author: Robin W. WinksPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773518209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
New edition of a work first published in 1960 under the title Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years by the Johns Hopkins Press. It examines the impact of the American Civil War on Canada, especially on the movement toward Confederation, offers a survey of Canadian public opinion on the war, and discusses the role of Confederate sympathizers in Canada, and the number of Canadians enlisted in the armies of the North and South. A new introduction gives an overview of Civil War studies since 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Nation and Athenæum
Author: Between Women
Author: Sharon MarcusPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.