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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1991. This is Volume 16 of 18 in a series of
works on Civil Rights, the White House and the Justice Department
from 1945 to 1968. This volume looks at Civil Rights policies prior
to 1960 in the Justice Department.
This ninth volume of the Tyndall correspondence covers the period
from February 1, 1865, to November 29, 1866. Tyndall was by now in
his mid-forties and in the prime of life. His career as a man of
science was firmly established and flourishing. He had been
professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution for more
than a dozen years and established himself as Michael Faraday’s
successor. This volume also covers the period of Faraday’s
increasing illness and withdrawal from public life, which had a
significant impact on Tyndall both personally and in terms of his
standing in the scientific world.
Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was
contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can
a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect
its value as authentic or not? From a Photograph examines these
questions in the light of the early scientific periodical press,
exploring how the perceived veracity of a photograph, its use as
scientific evidence and the technologies developed for printing it
were intimately connected.Before photomechanical printing processes
became widely used in the 1890s, scientific periodicals were unable
to reproduce photographs and instead included these photographic
images as engravings, with the label 'from a photograph'.
Consequently, every image was mediated by a human interlocutor,
introducing the potential for error and misinterpretation. Rather
than 'reading' photographs in the context of where or how they were
taken, this book emphasises the importance of understanding how
photographs are reproduced. It explores and compares the value of
photography as authentic proof in both popular and scientific
publications during this period of significant technological
developments and a growing readership. Three case studies
investigate different uses of photography in print: using pigeons
to transport microphotographs during the Franco-Prussian War; the
debate surrounding the development of instantaneous photography;
and finally the photographs taken of the Transit of Venus in 1874,
unseen by the human eye but captured on camera and made accessible
to the public through the periodical.Addressing a largely
overlooked area of photographic history, From a Photograph makes an
important contribution to this interdisciplinary research and will
be of interest to historians of photography, print culture and
science.
Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of
Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert
Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays
present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of
Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev,
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address
the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in
different contexts and to different audiences, from undergraduate
students reading Russian classics in the context of general
education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context
of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in
English translation, a few in the original, but all offer useful
strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience.
Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour,
Ksana Blank, Ellen Chances, Nicholas Dames, Andrew R. Durkin,
Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Robert Louis
Jackson, Liza Knapp, Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Meerson, Maude
Meisel, Robin Feuer Miller, Marcia A. Morris, Gary Saul Morson,
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman,
Rebecca Stanton, William Mills Todd III, and Nancy Workman.
As the 2020s began, protestors filled the streets, politicians
clashed over how to respond to a global pandemic, and new scrutiny
was placed on what rights US citizens should be afforded. Newly
revised and expanded to address immigration, gay rights, privacy
rights, affirmative action, and more, The Bill of Rights in Modern
America provides clear insights into the issues currently shaping
the United States. Essays explore the law and history behind
contentious debates over such topics as gun rights, limits on the
powers of law enforcement, the death penalty, abortion, and states'
rights. Accessible and easy to read, the discerning research
offered in The Bill of Rights in Modern America will help inform
critical discussions for years to come.
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Demons (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Contributions by Joanna Moorhead; Introduction by Robert Belknap; Translated by Robert Maguire
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Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark
masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good
and evil long ago became blurred. This Penguin Classics edition of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons is translated by Robert A. Maguire and
edited by Ronald Meyer, with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap.
Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a
Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar,
destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train
terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their
goals - even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems their
motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be
willing to kill one of their own circle in order to cover their
tracks? As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true
identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's and everyone's faith in
humanity is tested. Partly based on the real-life case of a student
murdered by his fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky's sprawling
novel is a powerful and prophetic, yet lively and often comic
depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, and a savage indictment of
the madness and nihilism of those who use violence to serve their
beliefs. Robert A. Maguire's superb translation captures
Dostoyevsky's vigorous prose. In his introduction, Robert L.
Belknap discusses Dostoyevsky's own revolutionary activities, his
narrative technique and use of different genres, and the background
of Radicalism in Imperial Russia. Edited by Ronald Meyer, this
volume also includes a chronology, further reading, notes and a
glossary. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in
Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later
years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other
works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment,
The Idiot and Demons. If you enjoyed Demons, you might like
Joris-Karl Huysmans' The Damned (La-Bas), also available in Penguin
Classics.
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Plots (Paperback)
Robert L. Belknap; Introduction by Robin Feuer Miller
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Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and
passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading
experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development
of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of
narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and
strategies of representation critical details about how and when a
work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King
Lear and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Belknap explores the
spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, its brilliant
manipulation of reader frustration and involvement, and its
critical cohesion of characters. He considers Shakespeare's
transformation of dramatic plot through parallelism, conflict,
resolution, and recognition. He then follows with Dostoevsky's
development of the rhetorical and moral devices of
nineteenth-century Russian fiction, along with its epistolary and
detective genres, to embed the reader in the murder Raskolnikov
commits. Dostoevsky's reinvention of the psychological plot was
profound, and Belknap effectively challenges the idea that the
author abused causality to achieve his ideological conclusion. In a
final chapter, Belknap argues that plots teach us novelistic rather
than poetic justice. Operating according to their own logic, plots
provide us with a compelling way to see and order our world.
Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of
Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honour of Robert
Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays
present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of
Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev,
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address
the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in
different contexts and to different audiences, from undergraduate
students reading Russian classics in the context of general
education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context
of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in
English translation, a few in the original, but all offer useful
strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience.
Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour,
Ksana Blank, Ellen Chances, Nicholas Dames, Andrew R. Durkin,
Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Robert Louis
Jackson, Liza Knapp, Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Meerson, Maude
Meisel, Robin Feuer Miller, Marcia A. Morris, Gary Saul Morson,
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman,
Rebecca Stanton, William Mills Todd III, and Nancy Workman.
As the 2020s began, protestors filled the streets, politicians
clashed over how to respond to a global pandemic, and new scrutiny
was placed on what rights US citizens should be afforded. Newly
revised and expanded to address immigration, gay rights, privacy
rights, affirmative action, and more, The Bill of Rights in Modern
America provides clear insights into the issues currently shaping
the United States. Essays explore the law and history behind
contentious debates over such topics as gun rights, limits on the
powers of law enforcement, the death penalty, abortion, and states'
rights. Accessible and easy to read, the discerning research
offered in The Bill of Rights in Modern America will help inform
critical discussions for years to come.
This fascinating new work focuses on the dramatic transformation of
criminal justice since the end of World War II. The decisions
handed down by the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice
Earl Warren (1953-1969) revolutionized criminal procedure. These
landmark decisions changed the course of criminal justice in the
following areas: Notification of rights, confessions and
questioning by police (Miranda Rights) Search and seizure Right to
counsel for indigents But how much has police and prosecution
really changed since these decisions took effect? How much safer
are the accused from the sort of abusive governmental practices
that inspired the Warren Court's landmark rulings? How has the
structure of American government changed because of these
decisions? The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure answers these
questions. By presenting and analyzing primary source materials,
such as brief excerpts from the Court's opinions, law review,
articles, editorials from the popular press, and police manuals
before and after the rulings, legal historian Michal Belknap paints
a vivid picture of the High Court's impact on criminal procedure.
Key Features How the Warren court transformed criminal procedure
Important primary documents Expert commentary from legal historian
Michal Belknap
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