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The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873
Volumes XIV-XVII
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence.
These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never...
Essays on England, Ireland, and Empire
Volume VI
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1982
John Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works....
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state...
by E.K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is justified...
by Jean Dangler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the poet describes the nature and activities of wisdom in all its aspects. He includes a moving account of...
The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages
A decorum of convenient distinction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new...
The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II
A Diplomatic Edition and a Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Written in the late-twelfth century, the Old French Romance of Tristran by Beroul is one of the earliest surviving versions of the story of Tristran and Iseut. Preserved in only one manuscript, the poem records the tragic tale that became one of the most popular themes of medieval literature, in several...
Babylon Under Western Eyes
A Study of Allusion and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years.
Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical,...
Old Books and New Histories
An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2006
Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction,...
A Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1998
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.
The...
Viscount Haldane
'The Wicked Step-father of the Canadian Constitution'
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely...
The Sense of Power
Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement – which held that Canada could only become a great nation within the British...
Crispin Ier
La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin,...