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  • Reading Character after Calvin

    Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    by David Mark Diamond ...
    How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularismThe strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, David Mark Diamond ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Strohm ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What Are We Doing Here?

    Essays

    by Marilynne Robinson ...
    New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Natural Symbols

    Explorations in Cosmology

    by Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Natural Symbols

    by Mary Douglas ...
    Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Each person treats their body as an image of society and the author examines the varieties of ritual and symbolic expression and the patterns of social ritual in which they are embodied.Natural Symbols is a ... Read more

    $305.99 USD

  • The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740

    by Michael McKeon ...
    "This may well be the most important study of the development of prose fiction in England since Ian Watt's classic Rise of the Novel, on which it builds." — Library JournalThe Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gendering the Nation

    Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Chandrava Chakravarty ...
    Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Religion in 50 Words

    A Critical Vocabulary

    by Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Arranged alphabetically, the book explores the historic roots, varied uses, and current significance and utility of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Animal Claim

    Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

    by Tobias Menely ...
    This "passionately eloquent" study shows the influence of eighteenth-century poetry on political theory, philosophy, and early discourse on animal rights (Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles).During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion in Public

    Locke's Political Theology

    by Elizabeth A. Pritchard ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional wisdom on its head and argues that Locke secularizes religion, that is, makes it worldly, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Reading Renaissance Ethics

    Edited by Marshall Grossman ...
    Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular ... Read more

    $31.99 USD