Author: William Andras AlcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The House I Live in
Author: William Andrus AlcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The House I Live In; Or, Popular Illustrations of the Structure and Functions of the Human Body ... Edited by Thomas C. Girtin
Author: William Andrus ALCOTTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Body of Property
Author: Chad LuckPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823263010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions. Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range of other property narratives, Luck unearths a wide-ranging literary effort to understand the nature of ownership, the phenomenology of possession. In these antebellum texts, ownership is not an abstract legal form but a lived relation, a dynamic of embodiment emerging within specific cultural spaces—a disputed frontier, a city agitated by class conflict. Luck challenges accounts that map property practice along a trajectory of abstraction and “virtualization.” The book also reorients recent Americanist work in emotion and affect by detailing a broader phenomenology of ownership, one extending beyond emotion to such sensory experiences as touch, taste, and vision. This productive blend of phenomenology and history uncovers deep-seated anxieties—and enthusiasms—about property across antebellum culture.
The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science
Author: John HolmesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317042344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian
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Author: The Shape of Utopia
Author: Irene ChengPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452960968
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on geometrically distinct designs. Though the majority of such plans remained unrealized, The Shape of Utopia emphasizes the enduring importance of these radical propositions and their ability to visualize alternatives to what was then a newly emerging capitalist nation. Drawing diagrammatic plans for structures such as octagonal houses, a hexagonal anarchist city, and circular centers of equitable commerce, these various architectural utopians applied geometric forms to envision a more just and harmonious society. Highlighting the inherent political capacity of architecture, Irene Cheng showcases how these visionary planners used their blueprints as persuasive visual rhetoric that could mobilize others to share in their aspirations for a better world. Offering an extensive and uniquely focused view of mid-nineteenth-century America’s rapidly changing cultural landscape, this book examines these utopian plans within the context of significant economic and technological transformation, encompassing movements such as phrenology, anarchism, and spiritualism. Engaging equally with architectural history, visual culture studies, and U.S. history, The Shape of Utopia documents a pivotal moment in American history when ordinary people ardently believed in the potential to reshape society.
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Author: Longmans, Green and coPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Management of the organs of digestion, in health and in disease
Author: Herbert MayoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digestive organs
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Opie Collection of Children's Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The house I live in ... Edited by Thomas C. Girtin ... The eighth edition
Author: William Andrus ALCOTTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description