Author: Henry S. SaltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Seventy Years Among Savages
Author: Henry S. SaltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Spiritual Bloomsbury
Author: Antony CopleyPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739161229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers—Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in the direction of Hinduism by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their mothers and the problematic feminine, the tensions between sexuality and society, and the attraction of Hindu mysticism; this fascinating work seeks to reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought. Also included is a diary narrating Copley's quest to track down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a journey to India.
Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters
Author: George HendrickPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252006111
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Nation and Athenaeum
Author: The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: Saint Among Savages
Author: Francis Xavier TalbotPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 9780898709131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Saint among Savages tells the remarkable story of St. Isaac Jogues, a French Jesuit who was killed by Mohawks while serving as a missionary in New France. Coming from a upper middle class life in Orleans, he knew from an early age that he wanted to be a priest and serve abroad as a missionary to risk his life in order to save souls. Along with several others, collectively known as the North American Martyrs, he followed his dreams and met death in the American wilderness. Living with the Huron people in what is now Ontario, he was captured by Mohawk warriors and tortured and held captive for over a year. He escaped back to France with help from the Dutch in New York, and remarkably insisted on going back to New France, even though he knew what he might be facing. Besides Jogues' life there is also a lot of material about the lives and customs of the Native American peoples who lived along the St. Lawrence River.
Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts
Author: Josephine M. GuyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408923
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures -- such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses -- of decadence and decay on the one hand, and of experiment and renewal, on the other; as well as with unprecedented intercultural exchange, especially between Britain and France. The 22 newly-commissioned essays collected here re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of cultural activities is discussed -- from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism."--
The Longest Struggle
Author: Norm PhelpsPublisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590561066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Tells the story of animal exploitation. Follows the development of animal protection from the ancient world through the Enlightenment, the anti-vivisection battles of the Victorian Era, and the birth of the modern animal rights movement with the publication of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation".
The London Mercury
Author: Sir John Collings SquirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description