Author: WilliamsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Poems Ludicrous, Satirical And Moral
Author: WilliamsPoems; ludicrous, satirical, and moral. With notes
Author: William KENRICK (LL.D.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Observations on Some Tendencies of Sentiment and Ethics Chiefly in Minor Poetry and Essay in the Eighteenth Century Until the Execution of Dr. W. Dodd in 1777
Author: Johannes Hendrik HarderPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Religious Trends in English Poetry
Author: H. N. FairchildPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231515160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Religious Trends in English Poetry
A catalogue of a very large and valuable collection of books; including the libraries of R. Cust and of T. Waldgrave. The books will begin selling Feb. 1785
Author: Payne Thomas and sonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: A Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Books; Consisting of Many Thousand Volumes, ... to be Sold this Day, by Robert Faulder, ... 1797
Author: Robert FaulderInventing Afterlives
Author: Regina M. JanesPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers hold that afterlife belief serves such important psychological and social purposes as consoling survivors, enforcing morality, dispensing justice, or giving life meaning. Yet the earliest, and some more recent, afterlives strikingly fail to satisfy those needs. In Inventing Afterlives, Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter rooted in the question that a dead body raises: where has the life gone? Humans then and now, in communities and as individuals, ponder what they would want or experience were they in that body. From this endlessly recurring situation, afterlife narratives develop in all their complexity, variety, and ingenuity. Exploring afterlives from Egypt to Sumer, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans, to Christianity’s advent and Islam’s rise, Janes reveals how little concern ancient afterlives had with morality. In south and east Asia, karmic rebirth makes morality self-enforcing and raises a new problem: how to stop re-dying. The British enlightenment, Janes argues, invented the now widespread wish-fulfilling afterlife and illustrates how afterlives change. She also considers the surprising afterlife of afterlives among modern artists and writers who no longer believe in worlds beyond this one. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions; contemporary literature and film; primatology; cognitive science; and evolutionary psychology, Janes shows that in asking what happens after we die, we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820
Author: David O'ShaughnessyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.