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Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics by Larry J. Reynolds
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Larry J. Reynolds

Decapitated Surveyor Despite his aversion to war, Hawthorne at times expressed admiration for those who approached battle reluctantly, dispassionately, and with kindness in their hearts, as if that were possible. ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 28,2020 )
The Ash Wednesday Supper by Bruno Giordano;Gatti Hilary;
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Bruno, Giordano;Gatti, Hilary;

[Fig. 5 © The British Library Board, C.37.c.14.(2.) p. 75.] SMITHUS. I would like to know if those who are near very high mountains would suffer from this impediment. THEOPHILUS. ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Mladen Popović Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta Clare Wilde
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Mladen Popović, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Clare Wilde

7.2 The Sign of Socrates Socrates’s “sign” (σημεῖον) is mentioned in Plato’s dialogues describing the last days of Socrates, but continues to feature throughout the other dialogues. It is often ...
( Category: Jewish February 28,2020 )
Reading Poetry, Writing Genre by Silvio Bär Emily Hauser
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser

Tennyson’s classical poems and their relation to classical scholarship Tennyson’s poems on classical subjects include ‘The Hesperides’ (1832), ‘Oenone’ and ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ (first published in 1832, and revised in 1842), ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 28,2020 )
RENAISSANCE ENGLAND by EMERSON KATHY LYNN
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:EMERSON, KATHY LYNN [EMERSON, KATHY LYNN]

DOMESTIC COINS angel: A gold coin worth 6s. 8d. until Henry VIII and then 10s. In 1565, England was flooded with Flemish-made counterfeit angels. angelet or half angel: A gold ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction by Daniel O'Gorman;Robert Eaglestone; & Robert Eaglestone
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel O'Gorman;Robert Eaglestone; & Robert Eaglestone

20 Anthropocene Sam Solnick In his 2008 book The Earth After Us the geologist Jan Zalasiewicz indulges in a kind of science fiction, imagining an alien visitor arriving on Earth ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 28,2020 )
In Praise Of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

VII The great majority of Socialists, in the present day, are disciples of Karl Marx, from whom they have taken over the belief that the only possible political force by ...
( Category: Humor February 28,2020 )
A Peep at the Blacks' by Ian Clark
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:Ian Clark [Ian Clark]

4.14 The British Squadron and Members of the Methodist Church, March 1924 In 1923–24, HMS Hood and the Special Service Squadron sailed around the world on ‘The Empire Cruise’ visiting ...
( Category: Industries February 28,2020 )
Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film by Lindsay Anne Hallam
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Lindsay Anne Hallam

The Fetishist (Shinya Tsukamoto) in Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988). Tomoo changes himself so he can dominate others, a process that parallels the transgression of the Sadean sovereign man, who ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 28,2020 )
The Dabistan Or School Of Manners by David Shea
epub |eng | 1843-02-27 | Author:David Shea

** with superior wisdom;" whoever attains that degree, comprehends also any other to which he may proceed, without any new study for it; and no degree of human perfection and ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching February 28,2020 )
The Ruins of Urban Modernity by Utku Mogultay
epub |eng | | Author:Utku Mogultay

Just like Turner’s frontier, then, the notion of the urban frontier glosses over the systemic underpinnings of processes of geographical and economic development by idealizing the actions of individual pioneers. ...
( Category: United States February 28,2020 )
The Wreckage of Philosophy: Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought (Toronto Italian Studies) by Cangiano Mimmo
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Cangiano, Mimmo

Differently than in Hegel, in Michelstaedter slave and master end up integrating their social needs. However, contrary to the interpretation that most critics of Michelstaedter have given, his reading is ...
( Category: Jewish February 28,2020 )
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Sylviane A. Diouf [Diouf, Sylviane A.]

The Massacre of 1767 The massacre of 1767 was one of the most traumatic episodes in the history of the Old Calabar slave trade, at least until British withdrawal from ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 28,2020 )
Riel's Defence by Hansen Hans V.;
epub |eng | | Author:Hansen, Hans V.;

RIEL AND THE MÉTIS: MULTIPLICITY AND ABSENCE The (maybe not so) young woman resigns herself. If Riel wants to talk to her, that is his business. The guy has had ...
( Category: Historical February 28,2020 )
Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
epub |eng | | Author:José Esteban Muñoz

The stage and the parking lot are adjacent in much the same way that there is a phantom door between Catch One and Spaceland in McCarty’s work. On one asphalt ...
( Category: LGBT February 28,2020 )

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