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Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Bruce's Voyage to Naples
Author: Bruce's Voyage to Naples, and Journey Up Mount Vesuvius
Author: Subterranean Worlds
Author: Peter FittingPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Exploring the hollow earth from the 17th century to the present.
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.
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.""--
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Avero
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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.
Every Saturday
Author: Utopianism for a Dying Planet
Author: Gregory ClaeysPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691236682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability. Gregory Claeys unfolds his argument through a wide-ranging consideration of utopian literature, social theory, and intentional communities. He defends a realist definition of utopia, focusing on ideas of sociability and belonging as central to utopian narratives. He surveys the development of these themes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before examining twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates about alternatives to consumerism. Claeys contends that the current global warming limit of 1.5C (2.7F) will result in cataclysm if there is no further reduction in the cap. In response, he offers a radical Green New Deal program, which combines ideas from the theory of sociability with proposals to withdraw from fossil fuels and cease reliance on unsustainable commodities. An urgent and comprehensive search for antidotes to our planet’s destruction, Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.
Utopias of the British Enlightenment
Author: Gregory ClaeysPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521455909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A major collection of tracts from the British utopian tradition.