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The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21016314): By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation?In answering this question for the first time, ´´The Place of Enchantment´´ breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an ´´irrational indulgence´´ and situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde. Carefully placing a serious engagement with esotericism squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality and consciousness, Owen demonstrates how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological experimentation of W. B. Yeats, and complex forms of astral clairvoyance as taught in secret and hierarchical magical societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.Through a remarkable blend of theoretical discussion and intellectual history, Owen has produced a work that moves far beyond a consideration of occultists and their world. Bearingdirectly on our understanding of modernity, her conclusions will force us to rethink the place of the irrational in modern culture. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 21.95 bestellen! |
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Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21931532): This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect ´´The White Devil´´ with ´´Basic Instinct´´, ´´The Changeling´´ or ´´Titus Andronicus´´ with ´´Straw Dogs´´, ´´Doctor Faustus´´ with ´´Se7en´´, ´´Taxi Driver´´ with ´´The Spanish Tragedy´´? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 67.95 bestellen! |
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A Waxing Moon: The Modern Gaelic Revival (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (20999494): Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1,300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland had fallen tenfold over the previous century. The language itself was commonplace only in the scattered communities of the north-west Highlands and Hebrides. By the early years of the 21st century, however, a sea-change had taken place. Gaelic - for so long a subject of mockery and hostility - had become what some termed ´fashionable´. Gaelic-speaking jobs were available; Gaelic-medium education was established in many areas; and politicians and business-people saw benefits in acting as friends of the culture. While the numbers of Gaelic-speakers continued to fall as older people passed away, the decline was slowed and for the first time in 100 years the percentage of young people using the language began to rise proportionately. What had happened was a kind of renaissance: a Gaelic revival that manifested itself in popular music, literature, art, poetry, publishing, drama, radio and television. It was a phenomenon as obvious as it was unexpected. And at the heart of that movem | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 25.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21004741): 1910. American novelist, noted for his widely successful historical romances. The story begins: Honora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine. She was born in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, at Nice, in France, and she spent the early years of her life in St. Louis, a somewhat conservative old city on the banks of the Mississippi River. Her father was Randolph Leffingwell, and he died in the early flower of his manhood, while filling with a grace that many remember the post of United States Consul at Nice. As a linguist he was a phenomenon, and his photograph in the tortoiseshell frame proves indubitably, to any acquainted with the fashions of 1870, that he was a master of that subtlest of all arts, dress. He had gentle blood in his veins, which came from Virginia through Kentucky in a coach at six, and he was the equal in appearance and manners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 30.95 bestellen! |
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Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (22084051): Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books. While it contains lavish selections from important poets such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, and Aemilia Lanyer, almost half of the material included is previously unpublished and uncollected. It aims to introduce the reader to a conspectus of the verse written by women from c.1520 to 1700, at all social levels from the verse of court elite to working-class women´s aphorisms, libels, and charms. All genres of verse used by early modern women are represented; as are all languages in which women´s verse survives: Classical Greek and Latin, French, Italian, English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Irish. Each woman´s work is accompanied by a headnote which combines biographic information with some guidance as to the context, intended audience, and genre of her work. The collection is organized chronologically. It should be possible, as never before, to see what early modern women wrote, how they wrote it, who they wrote for, and what they said. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 67.95 bestellen! |
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Modern Mothers in Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois (buecher.de - (Teil1)) | | Produktbeschreibung (20982259): In the early twentieth century, ambitious social welfare campaigns linked the improvement of health to the broader aim of ´´modernizing´´ American life. Lowered mortality rates, especially among infants and young children, became for reformers a barometer by which to measure society´s overall ´´progress.´´ To date, most analyses of Progressive Era child welfare movements have concentrated on urban areas in the Northeast and the national leadership role played by the Children´s Bureau. Modern mothers in the Heartland, in contrast, shifts the focus to the Midwest. Illinois provides an interesting case study because its rates of infant and maternal mortality tended to be higher than those of other midwestern states, and Chicago´s rates were consistently higher than those of other major industrial centers. Drawing on local and state sources to reconstruct the nature of maternal and child health work, Lynne Curry highlights the interactive character of health reform: policy makers, clients of community health services, practitioners, and the volunteers who worked with them negotiated the final outcomes of the campaign´s stated aims. Situating maternal and child health reform in its historical and regional context, this study uses information about Illinois´s distinctive social, economic, and political history -- even its geography -- to enhance the analytical picture. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 20.95 bestellen! |
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