First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark’s writings on the Brontë sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Brontë’s poems. Perceptively but unsentimentally, Spark considers the Brontës’ lives and works, including their generally disastrous attempts at teaching, and reflects on her own ......
Rosicrucian Nature of Goethe's "Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily" and the Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner
Places the fairytale against the background of Goethe's life and cultural setting. This title discusses its importance in the development of Steiner's spiritual science. It describes its visual language, mystical insights, and relevance for us.
The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption. Consumption ......
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption. Consumption ......
Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales allured Americans with visions of financial success, while events such as the Panics of 8 9, 837, 857, and 8 5 threatened them with sudden and ......
