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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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the edinburgh review or critical journal for october 1829....january 1830
Author: The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Author: The Edinburgh Review
Author: Inventing the Gothic Corpse
Author: Yael ShapiraPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319764845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual or political message; today they appear regularly in Gothic and horror stories as a source of macabre pleasure. Yael Shapira’s book tracks this change at it unfolds in eighteenth-century fiction, from the early novels of Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, through the groundbreaking mid-century works of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, to the Gothic fictions of Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre and Minerva Press authors Isabella Kelly and Mrs. Carver. In tracing this long historical arc, Shapira illuminates a hidden side of the history of the novel: the dead body, she shows, helps the fledgling literary form confront its own controversial ability to entertain. Her close scrutiny of fictional corpses across the long eighteenth century reveals how the dead body functions as a test of the novel’s intentions, a chance for novelists to declare their allegiances in the battle between the didactic and the “merely” pleasurable.
Paracelsus
Author: Bruce T. MoranPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned “the best” of them. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but he also believed devoutly in a female deity. He traveled constantly, learning and teaching a new form of medicine based on the experience of miners, bathers, alchemists, midwives, and barber-surgeons. He argued for changes in the way the body was understood, how disease was defined, and how treatments were created, but he was also moved by mystical speculations, an alchemical view of nature, and an intriguing concept of creation. Bringing to light the ideas, diverse works, and major texts of this important Renaissance figure, Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, showing how Paracelsus’s tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better and brought new perspectives to the study of nature.
Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758-1900)
Author: Yves BousquetPublisher:
ISBN: 9789546428172
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
"Bibliographic references to works pertaining to the taxonomy of Coleoptera published between 1758 and 1900 in the non-periodical literature are listed. Each reference includes the full name of the author, the year or range of years of the publication, the title in full, the publisher and place of publication, the pagination with the number of plates, and the size of the work. This information is followed by the date of publication found in the work itself, the dates found from external sources, and the libraries consulted for the work. Overall, more than 990 works published by 622 primary authors are listed. For each of these authors, a biographic notice (if information was available) is given along with the references consulted"--[p. 1].
Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Author: Samuel WarrenPublisher:
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Author: Megan CoyerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474405614
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, Vol. 50
Author: Sydney SmithPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527652682
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 50: For October 1829-January 1830, to Be Continued Quarterly That the Mitre was not behind the Ermine, in the foul conta mination of those times, we have abundant proof, both from the general conduct of the church as described by Bishop Burnet, and from the strain, composed by the heads of the Hierarchy, to testify the gratitude of the nation for its enslavement. Lord King has given na the form of prayer appointed for the thanks giving holden upon the 9th of September, 1688, and which he justly observes, might have been supposed to proceed rather from the Mufti and the Ulema, than from the Bishops and rulers of the Christian Church of England.' They exult in the re flection that God had given their gracious King Charles the necks of his enemies - that is of the virtuous Russell, who had suffered, and of Sidney, who was yet to be delivered over to the inhuman J efi'ries. They acknowledge, that in all ages the Al mighty has shed forth his power in the miraculous protection of righteous and religious Kings, ' and yield, from the very bottom of their hearts, unfet'ghed thanks' for the delivery of those two righteous and religious princes, Charles and James, from the unnatural and hellish conspiracy of wicked and ungodly men.' Upon these Princes and their posterity they pray that the crown may for ever floarish; and, under the form of a prayer for ene mies, they pour out. All imaginable abuse upon their political antagonists; thus Bow down the stiff neck and the iron sinew -take away the brass from the whore's forehead, and make their faces ashamed.' Take from them their confident mis takes, their carnal ends, and their secular interests, ' &c. &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
History of Cass County, Indiana
Author: Thomas B. HelmPublisher:
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Category : Cass County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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