The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850

Author: A. Twells

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0230234720

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This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.

Counterfactual Romanticism
Counterfactual Romanticism

Author: Damian Walford Davies

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1526108011

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Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modalities of counterfactual speculation and inquiry across a range of Romantic-period authors, genres and concerns, this collection offers a radical new purchase on literary history, on the relationship between history and fiction, and on our historicist methods to date – and thus on the Romanticisms we (think we) have inherited. Counterfactual Romanticism provides a ground-breaking method of re-reading literary pasts and our own reading presents; in the process, literary production, texts and reading practices are unfossilised and defamiliarised.

The Invisible Hand
The Invisible Hand

Author: John Eatwell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-11-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1349203130

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This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on the theory of the invisible hand.