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William Morris (1834-96) was an English poet, decorative artist,
translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist,
socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have
been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and
efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This
Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the
impressive range of Morris's multi-faceted life and activities: his
homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork,
poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism,
eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter
provides valuable historical and literary background information,
reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth
century to the present, and offers new approaches to important
aspects of its topic. Morris's eclectic methodology and the
perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an
essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry,
translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political
activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.
The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine
some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and
assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for
expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the
emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian
attraction to 'medieval' history and litereature are discussed and
emblematic responses to this attraction are examined.
The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine
some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and
assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for
expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the
emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian
attraction to 'medieval' history and litereature are discussed and
emblematic responses to this attraction are examined.
Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition is the first work
to explore in such historical depth the relationship between
fundamental philosophical quandaries regarding self-reference and
meta-mathematical notions of consistency and incompleteness. Using
the insights of twentieth-century logicians from Goedel through
Hilbert and their successors, this volume revisits the writings of
Aristotle, the ancient skeptics, Anselm, and enlightenment and
seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers Leibniz, Berkeley,
Hume, Pascal, Descartes, and Kant to identify ways in which these
both encode and evade problems of a priori definition and
self-reference. The final chapters critique and extend more recent
insights of late 20th-century logicians and quantum physicists, and
offer new applications of the completeness theorem as a means of
exploring "metatheoretical ascent" and the limitations of
scientific certainty. Broadly syncretic in range, Metamathematics
and the Philosophical Tradition addresses central and recurring
problems within epistemology. The volume's elegant, condensed
writing style renders accessible its wealth of citations and
allusions from varied traditions and in several languages. Its
arguments will be of special interest to historians and
philosophers of science and mathematics, particularly scholars of
classical skepticism, the Enlightenment, Kant, ethics, and
mathematical logic.
Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition is the first work
to explore in such historical depth the relationship between
fundamental philosophical quandaries regarding self-reference and
meta-mathematical notions of consistency and incompleteness. Using
the insights of twentieth-century logicians from Goedel through
Hilbert and their successors, this volume revisits the writings of
Aristotle, the ancient skeptics, Anselm, and enlightenment and
seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers Leibniz, Berkeley,
Hume, Pascal, Descartes, and Kant to identify ways in which these
both encode and evade problems of a priori definition and
self-reference. The final chapters critique and extend more recent
insights of late 20th-century logicians and quantum physicists, and
offer new applications of the completeness theorem as a means of
exploring "metatheoretical ascent" and the limitations of
scientific certainty. Broadly syncretic in range, Metamathematics
and the Philosophical Tradition addresses central and recurring
problems within epistemology. The volume's elegant, condensed
writing style renders accessible its wealth of citations and
allusions from varied traditions and in several languages. Its
arguments will be of special interest to historians and
philosophers of science and mathematics, particularly scholars of
classical skepticism, the Enlightenment, Kant, ethics, and
mathematical logic.
This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life
narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent
literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic,
historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts
in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which
enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories,
and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition.
Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables
readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and
poignancy of these works.
Questioning the assumption that few poems by working-class women
had survived, Florence Boos set out to discover supposedly lost
works in libraries, private collections, and archives. Her years of
research resulted in this anthology.
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