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This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to
this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on
various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the
legal system, his role as Irving's stage manager, and analyses his
work in relation to these.
London, September 1888. Jack the Ripper roams the streets. A scream
rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre… A young
‘actress’ has been attacked, suffering peculiar bite wounds to
her neck; an event that announces a series of strange, vampiric
happenings, and thrusts an unwitting Bram Stoker – acting manager
of the Lyceum and aspiring author – into the limelight, and the
action. Increasingly perplexed by the unsettling behaviour of his
'Guv’nor’, the brilliant but mercurial actor, Henry Irving, and
Irving’s acclaimed leading lady, Ellen Terry, Stoker soon starts
suspecting the worst. And then, another attack reveals a vicious
Prussian baron, returned to London as a vampire seeking revenge…
Alive with Gothic intrigue, reversal and surprise, Mr Stoker will
keep the reader enthralled and confounded until its final, shocking
scene – indeed, until its very last word. 'This is a fully
realised Gothic world, a stimulating mix of homely familiarity and
lurking menace which will engage readers of all ages.' David
Punter, author of The Literature of Terror
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult is a collection of essays
examining the thought of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and
particularly his philosophical reading and explorations of older
systems of thought, where philosophy, mysticism, and the
supernatural blend. It opens with a broad survey of the current
state of Yeats scholarship, which also includes an examination of
Yeats's poetic practice through a manuscript of the original core
of a poem that became a work of philosophical thought and occult
lore, "The Phases of the Moon." The following essay examines an
area where spiritualism, eugenic theory, and criminology cross
paths in the writings of Cesare Lombroso, and Yeats's response to
his work. The third paper considers Yeats's debts to the East,
especially Buddhist and Hindu thought, while the fourth looks at
his ideas about the dream-state, the nature of reality, and contact
with the dead. The fifth essay explores Yeats's understanding of
the concept of the Great Year from classical astronomy and
philosophy, and its role in the system of his work A Vision, and
the sixth paper studies that work's theory of "contemporaneous
periods" affecting each other across history in the light of Oswald
Spengler's The Decline of the West. The seventh essay evaluates
Yeats's reading of Berkeley and his critics' appreciation (or lack
of it) of how he responds to Berkeley's idealism. The book as a
whole explores how Yeats's mind and thought relate to his poetry,
drama, and prose, and how his reading informs all of them.
This book offers an analysis and summary of the uses, abuses and
limitations of attachment theory in contemporary child welfare
practice. Analysing the primary science and drawing on the authors'
original empirical work, the book shows how attachment theory can
distort and influence decision-making. It argues that the dominant
view of attachment theory may promote a problematic diagnostic
mindset, whilst undervaluing the enduring relationships between
children and adults. The book concludes that attachment theory can
still play an important role in child welfare practice, but the
balance of the research agenda needs a radical shift towards a
sophisticated understanding of the realities of human experience to
inform ethical practice.
What role does emotion play in child and family social work
practice? In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role
of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new
insights from the first study undertaken into the role of these
emotions within professional practice. The author demonstrates how
these emotions, which are embedded within the very structures of
society but experienced as individual phenomena, are used as
mechanism of control in relation to both professionals themselves
and service users. Examining the implications of these emotional
experiences in the context of professional practice and the
relationship between the individual, the family and the state, the
book calls for a more humane form of practice, rooted in more
informed policies that take in to consideration the realities and
frailties of the human experience.
For many service users and professionals in the field of social
work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience. Providing
an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and
humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and
theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within
social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its
underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service
users and professionals. The book uses innovative international
scholarship and includes theoretical considerations, as well as
empirical findings within the field of social work. It shows the
importance of sensitive, reflective and relationship-oriented
practice based on a better understanding of the complexity of
shame.
What role does emotion play in child and family social work
practice? In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role
of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new
insights from the first study undertaken into the role of these
emotions within professional practice. The author demonstrates how
these emotions, which are embedded within the very structures of
society but experienced as individual phenomena, are used as
mechanism of control in relation to both professionals themselves
and service users. Examining the implications of these emotional
experiences in the context of professional practice and the
relationship between the individual, the family and the state, the
book calls for a more humane form of practice, rooted in more
informed policies that take in to consideration the realities and
frailties of the human experience.
This book offers an analysis and summary of the uses, abuses and
limitations of attachment theory in contemporary child welfare
practice. Analysing the primary science and drawing on the authors'
original empirical work, the book shows how attachment theory can
distort and influence decision-making. It argues that the dominant
view of attachment theory may promote a problematic diagnostic
mindset, whilst undervaluing the enduring relationships between
children and adults. The book concludes that attachment theory can
still play an important role in child welfare practice, but the
balance of the research agenda needs a radical shift towards a
sophisticated understanding of the realities of human experience to
inform ethical practice.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT094741With a
half-title. The appendix has a separate titlepage.London: printed
by W. Bowyer, for R. Williamson, 1727. 8],238p., plate; 4
For many service users and professionals in the field of social
work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience. Providing
an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and
humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and
theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within
social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its
underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service
users and professionals. The book uses innovative international
scholarship and includes theoretical considerations, as well as
empirical findings within the field of social work. It shows the
importance of sensitive, reflective and relationship-oriented
practice based on a better understanding of the complexity of
shame.
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