The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)
The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Christopher Thacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1317235827

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First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson.

The Saviour of the World (Routledge Revivals)
The Saviour of the World (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Charlotte M Mason

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317458680

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The Saviour of the World covers each incident and each saying in the Bible and converts them to either a single poem, blank verse or rhymed stanza, according to the subject. This volume, called The Kingdom of Heaven, was originally published in 1909. This book will be of interest to students of both religious studies and English literature.

The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)
The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Christopher Thacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1317235835

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First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson.

The Saviour of the World (Routledge Revivals)
The Saviour of the World (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Charlotte M Mason

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 131745863X

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The Saviour of the World covers each incident and each saying in the Bible and converts them to either a single poem, blank verse or rhymed stanza, according to the subject. This volume, called The Bread of Life, was originally published in 1910. This book will be of interest to students of both religious studies and English literature.

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Coral Ann Howells

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1317637984

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First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical limits, and those traditional structures of patriarchal authority need revision if women’s alternative views are to be taken into account. Including short biographical sketches and a complete list of the books published by the authors under discussion, writers examined include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence.

Post-War British Theatre Criticism (Routledge Revivals)
Post-War British Theatre Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Elsom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1317557506

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This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre critics. The plays chosen are each, in their different ways, important in their contribution to the development of the British theatre, covering the period from immediately after the Second World War, when British theatre fell into decline, through the revival of the late 1950s, to the time in which this book was first published, in which British theatre enjoyed a high international reputation for its diversity and quality. This book is ideal for theatre studies students, as well as for the general theatre-goer.

Impressionists in England (Routledge Revivals)
Impressionists in England (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Kate Flint

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1317234839

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First published in 1984. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent not only era of rapidly changing artistic methods but a crucial evolution in art criticism. This book gathers together a wide-range of the criticism that greeted the work of the Impressionists artists in the English Press. The selected examples of praise and antagonism reflect the sentiments expressed in the comments of prominent newspaper and periodical critics. The selection shows the importance of Impressionist art to English art criticism and wide comprehension of the formal qualities in painting. It also demonstrates how forward-looking critics created new criteria for the discussion of modern painting.

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)
Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Author: E. J. Mishan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 1136629548

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First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.

Imitation (Routledge Revivals)
Imitation (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Joel Weinsheimer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317612434

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In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer advocates revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a mode appropriate for literary critics as well as artists. The book is not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation, specifically of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and mode of presentation, imitation is presented not merely as a kind of poetry that once flourished in the eighteenth century but also as a kind of criticism particularly relevant today. Applying arguments from philosophy of science, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, literary theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, Weinsheimer shows that the three main currents of thought responsible for forcing imitation underground were empiricism, originalism and historicism. The three central chapters of the book concentrate on their representatives: John Locke, Edward Young and Thomas Warton. The author then applies Johnsonian arguments – supported by those of Gadamer Peirce – to challenge those objections and re-establish imitation as an intellectually defensible mode of writing.

The Ballad
The Ballad

Author: Alan Bold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1315389746

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First published in 1979, this work presents the history of the ballad, including its origin, style, content and preservation. It explores how ballads have adapted and changed over time, particularly with the rise of mass literacy and printing and the decline in the oral tradition, and in doing so, demonstrates the versatility of the genre. With separate indexes for names and ballad titles, this book will be a valuable resource to those studying English ballads and early modern and modern poetry.