Hatred and Civility
Hatred and Civility

Author: Christopher Lane

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0231503903

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To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized version of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature--and its journalism, sermons, poems, and plays--where villains, hypocrites, murderers, and cheats of all types abound.

Satire in an Age of Realism
Satire in an Age of Realism

Author: Aaron Matz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139488317

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As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.

Hatred & Civility
Hatred & Civility

Author: Christopher Lane

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780231130646

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To understand hatred today, start with the Victorians. This book explores the depths of loathing in Victorian fiction and society, highlighting numerous cultural contradictions. It shows that the fanatics and terrorists troubling us in the 21st century have many precursors in our supposedly moral ancestors.

Civility
Civility

Author: Stephen Carter

Publisher:

Published: 1998-04-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" and "The Culture of Disbelief" proves that manners matter to the future of America. Not an exercise in abstract philosophizing, this book delivers an agenda for the practical implementation of civility in contemporary life.

The Cambridge History of the English Novel
The Cambridge History of the English Novel

Author: Robert L. Caserio

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 1316175103

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The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.

The Case for Civility
The Case for Civility

Author: Os Guinness

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 006174008X

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In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.

Hatred and Racism (Past and Present)
Hatred and Racism (Past and Present)

Author: Larry F. Murphy

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-05-21

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 1728362237

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This book was written to provide consolation, in particularly, to the millions in Christ Jesus and others who are profoundly sickened, frustrated, irritated, broken-hearted about the immoral actions and fifthly languages of Donald J. Trump, both before and after becoming president of the United States of America, who has managed to avoid justice due to him through the help of cunning, clever, scheming, devious, and disingenuous attorneys of his own nature.

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in and Out of Time
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in and Out of Time

Author: Donna R. White

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0810854287

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Part of the "Centennial Studies" series, this fourth volume explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of "Peter Pan" on children's literature and popular culture in contemporary times. It also focuses on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies.

THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS
THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

Author: Christopher E. L. Toote, Ph.D.

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2024-06-10

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1456651862

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THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS is the compilation of the most powerful, comprehensive expressions experienced by humankind. Knowledge and activation of these laws initiate, foster, and create an inevitable oasis of wealth, success, and happiness. Every person who applies these laws will fulfill their dreams and aspirations. These are laws, not theories. The outcome is certain because laws give the anticipated results repeatedly when the right principles are applied. Christopher E. L. Toote has shared information in THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS that will help you expand your thinking, explore your creativity, tap your true potential, know your purpose, and live a fulfilled, successful, healthy, and happy life. You will find yourself reading this book often as a reminder of your full potentiality, your Creator, the role of the universe, your overflowing blessings, your impact on humanity, and the amazing success that awaits you.

A Right to Offend
A Right to Offend

Author: Brian Winston

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1849664390

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Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression. In this new book, Winston provides an account of the current state of freedom of expression in the western world. He analyses all the most pertinent cases of conflict during the last two decades - including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the incident of the Danish cartoons and offended celebrities - examining cultural, legal and journalistic aspects of each case. A Right to Offend offers us a deeper understanding of the increasingly threatening environment in which free speech operates and is defended, as well as how it informs and is central to journalism practice and media freedom more generally. It is important reading for all those interested in freedom of expression in the twenty-first century.