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The Hunterian Oration, Presidential Addresses, and Pathological and Surgical Writings (Paperback): W J & S Golbourn The Hunterian Oration, Presidential Addresses, and Pathological and Surgical Writings (Paperback)
W J & S Golbourn
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds - Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover): Simon Burrows,... The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds - Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne, Valerie Mainz
R4,907 Discovery Miles 49 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death.


Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'.



The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.

Complete Works of Voltaire 28A - Oeuvres de 1742-1745 (I) (Hardcover, Critical edition): Olivier Ferret, Russell Goulbourne, et... Complete Works of Voltaire 28A - Oeuvres de 1742-1745 (I) (Hardcover, Critical edition)
Olivier Ferret, Russell Goulbourne, et al; Voltaire
R4,079 Discovery Miles 40 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together a group of works which have never been edited before, and makes an important contribution to the study of Voltaire and music history. Voltaire's role as a courtier during this period was a complex one, as he sought to serve at both the French and Prussian courts; the names of the addressees of the verse written at this time show the numerous contacts made by Voltaire during his travels abroad and particularly during his postings to Berlin and the Hague. On his return to France in 1743, his attention turned to the court at Versailles, and there followed two royal commissions, "La Princesse de Navarre" and "Le Temple de la gloire", both written in collaboration with Rameau with whom Voltaire had a stormy working relationship. Although neither work received the critical acclaim Voltaire had hoped for, the first did secure for him the position of historiographe du roi and is integral to his ongoing experimentation in comic drama.

Complete Works of Voltaire 18C - Writings of 1738-1740 (III) - Writings for Music (1720-1740) (Hardcover, Critical edition):... Complete Works of Voltaire 18C - Writings of 1738-1740 (III) - Writings for Music (1720-1740) (Hardcover, Critical edition)
Russell Goulbourne, Raymond Trousson, Roger J.V. Cotte, Gillian Pink, Gerhardt Stenger, …
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Rameau took the world of opera by storm in 1733, Voltaire set aside his first libretto, "Tanis et Zelide", and wrote "Samson" and later "Pandore" with the composer specifically in mind. All three libretti depict rebellion against established religions, culminating in spectacular scenes: Isis and Osiris destroying the temple at Memphis; Samson bringing down the temple, crushing himself and the Philistines; and Prometheus and the Titans doing battle against the Roman gods.

Complete Works of Voltaire 18B - Oeuvres de 1738-1740 (II) (Hardcover, Critical edition): Russell Goulbourne, Jacqueline... Complete Works of Voltaire 18B - Oeuvres de 1738-1740 (II) (Hardcover, Critical edition)
Russell Goulbourne, Jacqueline Hellegouarc'h, Nicholas Cronk; Voltaire
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The comedy "L'Envieux" is a thinly veiled allegory of the Cirey household and of Desfontaines's underhand manoeuvres against it. With the publication of Desfontaines's "Voltairomanie" in December 1738, Voltaire had to abandon the idea of having the play performed. Instead he set to work on a tragedy, "Zulime", the story of a princess in love with a slave who is already married. Even though the play was not the hoped-for success that would silence his detractors, Voltaire continued to revise it and to have it privately performed for many years. Meanwhile the printer Ledet was publishing an edition of Voltaire's works, surreptitiously including the banned "Lettres philosophiques". Voltaire's "Memoire" on the edition serves the double function of pointing out all that is new as well as the printer's many errors. The "Epitre a un ministre d'Etat" is another text that underwent significant revisions over the years. Originally addressed to Maurepas - perhaps in gratitude for his help in the Desfontaines affair - the epistle seems also to have been intended for Frederick. As Voltaire's relationship with both men deteriorated, so the poem was transformed from a tribute to patronage to a lament on the plight of the arts.

Complete Works of Voltaire 16 - Oeuvres de 1736 (Hardcover, Critical edition): T.E.D. Braun, John Dunkley, Russell Goulbourne,... Complete Works of Voltaire 16 - Oeuvres de 1736 (Hardcover, Critical edition)
T.E.D. Braun, John Dunkley, Russell Goulbourne, Hayden T. Mason, Christiane Mervaud, …
R4,287 Discovery Miles 42 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the beginning of 1736, Voltaire was at the height of his success, receiving praise from the public and fellow-poets alike. The breathtaking breadth of Voltaire's activity this year ranges from comedy, "L'Enfant Prodigue", and a major philosophical poem, "Le Mondain", to public and private verse, including one of his most arresting satires in "Le Crepinade", aimed at Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Voltaire relished the diversity of his literary output, as he did the stimulation of his burgeoning scientific interests and lively correspondence. However, despite the popular acclaim, literary quarrels and lawsuits caused continuous tension, forcing Voltaire by the end of the year, to flee France and the 'persecution' his fame had brought him.

Law and Migration (Hardcover): Selina Goulbourne Law and Migration (Hardcover)
Selina Goulbourne
R6,246 Discovery Miles 62 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Law and Migration is an authoritative volume which draws on statutory and case law to expose the limitations of the law in protecting the individual caught in the complex web of national and regional constraints on migration. International law provides for the exercise of the sovereign power of states to control the entry of non-nationals. However, more recent international conventions have shown a growing awareness of the failure of the law to protect individuals and their families from violation of their human rights and civil liberties. Whilst avoiding open conflict with the principle of sovereignty, national courts have strived to comply with the spirit of human rights conventions and have often decided in favour of individuals. Despite this, border and internal controls on entry continue to proliferate. Globally the failure to establish an adequate legal framework which takes account of forced migration caused by wars and natural disasters has provoked a debate beyond the traditional legal norms. This volume presents a selection of published work from a variety of countriest and addresses the theoretical questions and policy issues which will continue to tax lawyers in the twenty first century.

Complete Works of Voltaire 83 - Miscellaneous verse (French, Hardcover, Critical edition): Nick Treuherz, Russell Goulbourne Complete Works of Voltaire 83 - Miscellaneous verse (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Nick Treuherz, Russell Goulbourne; Voltaire
R3,661 Discovery Miles 36 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents all of Voltaire's poetry for which a year of composition is unknown. It is composed exclusively of short pieces which provide an opportunity to study the place of shorter verse in Voltaire's corpus. Voltaire's impromptus, odes and epistles were often penned on specific occasions and given as gifts to friends and acquaintances, some well known, like Madame du Chatelet, others much more mysterious. As the author's reputation grew these short pieces became sought-after commodities: people would save them, and some would be copied and circulated to the wider public.

Transnational Families - Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital (Paperback): Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John... Transnational Families - Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital (Paperback)
Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John Solomos, Elisabetta Zontini
R1,291 Discovery Miles 12 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. Based on new empirical data from fairly distinct sets of transnational family networks in minority communities with a substantial presence in the United Kingdom - principally, Caribbean and Italian, but also drawing on others such as Indian - it examines their lived experiences and uses the concept of social capital to explore how these families manage to maintain close and meaningful links. Transnational Families discusses, explains and illustrates the substantial problems and issues confronted by communities and families, academics and policy-makers/implementers, and non-governmental organisations within a transnational world. It will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families and globalisation.

Transnational Families - Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital (Hardcover): Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John... Transnational Families - Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital (Hardcover)
Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John Solomos, Elisabetta Zontini
R4,164 Discovery Miles 41 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital.

This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. Based on new empirical data from fairly distinct sets of transnational family networks in minority communities with a substantial presence in the United Kingdom ? principally, Caribbean and Italian, but also drawing on others such as Indian ? it examines their lived experiences and uses the concept of social capital to explore how these families manage to maintain close and meaningful links.

Transnational Families discusses, explains and illustrates the substantial problems and issues confronted by communities and families, academics and policy-makers/implementers, and non-governmental organisations within a transnational world. It will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families and globalisation.

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora (Paperback, Revised Edition): Aubrey W. Bonnett, Calvin B. Holder Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora (Paperback, Revised Edition)
Aubrey W. Bonnett, Calvin B. Holder; Contributions by Fitzroy Andre Baptiste, Harry Goulbourne, Subhas Ramcharan, …
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and resilience to interrogate the social processes and the coping repertoire of these diasporic populations. This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia. Researchers sought to determine how many of these diasporic populations have fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas. Prescriptions for the continued viability of these diasporic populations are provided. India and China are undergoing a global renaissance, emerging as potentially significant economic, political, and cultural actors on the world scene. Meanwhile, ancestral Africa is still socially, politically, and economically fragmented, thereby causing a new migratory "push" to North America and Europe.

Caribbean Transnational Experience (Hardcover): Harry Goulbourne Caribbean Transnational Experience (Hardcover)
Harry Goulbourne
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume examines today's vibrant and creative trans-Atlantic Caribbean community. It advances three central arguments, first, the concepts of diaspora and of Caribbean diaspora are problematic. Second, the African diaspora and its variant Caribbean diaspora are integral parts of the wider Atlantic world making it disingenuous to speak of the West and the rest where Caribbeans in the Atlantic are concerned. Third, Goulbourne insists that meaningful discussions about these aspects of the modern world must be empirically validated while being theoretically informed. Unlike much cultural and literary studies, this text makes a plea for verifiable evidence to inform academic and popular discussions about the exciting experiences of Caribbeans across the Atlantic. Chapters explore questions of definition and theory, the common Atlantic heritage and fate, social and economic contexts of Caribbean transnationality, Africa, the USA and the Caribbean in popular discourses in Britain, transnationality of families and the propensity of Caribbean-born and their offspring to return to the Caribbean from the mother country.

Caribbean Transnational Experience (Paperback): Harry Goulbourne Caribbean Transnational Experience (Paperback)
Harry Goulbourne
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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Caribbean Transnational Experience "examines today's vibrant and creative trans-Atlantic Caribbean community. Harry Goulbourne advances three central arguments: first, the concepts of Diaspora and of Caribbean Diaspora are problematic; second, the African Diaspora and its variant Caribbean Diaspora are integral parts of the wider Atlantic world making it disingenuous to speak of the West and the rest where Caribbeans in the Atlantic are concerned. Third, Goulbourne insists that meaningful discussions about these aspects of the modern world must be empirically validated while being theoretically informed.
Unlike much cultural and literary studies, "Caribbean Transnational Experience" makes a plea for verifiable evidence to inform academic and popular discussions about the exciting experiences of Caribbeans across the Atlantic. Chapters explore questions of definition and theory, the common Atlantic heritage and fate, social and economic contexts of Caribbean transnationality, Africa, the USA and the Caribbean in popular discourses in Britain, transnationality of families and the propensity for Caribbean-born and their offspring to return to the Caribbean from the mother country. "Caribbean Transnational Experience" concludes with a speculative discussion about possible future directions of what is increasingly being described as the Caribbean Diaspora.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism - Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation (Hardcover): Russell Goulbourne, David... Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism - Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation (Hardcover)
Russell Goulbourne, David Higgins
R2,983 Discovery Miles 29 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau's connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, including anti-Jacobin fiction, educational works, familiar essays, nature writing and political discourse. Convincingly demonstrating that the relationship between Rousseau's thought and British Romanticism goes beyond mere reception or influence to encompass complex forms of connection, transmission and appropriation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism is a vital new contribution to scholarly understanding of British Romantic literature and its transnational contexts.

Race and Ethnicity - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover): Professor Harry Goulbourne Race and Ethnicity - Critical Concepts in Sociology (Hardcover)
Professor Harry Goulbourne; Edited by Harry Goulbourne
R31,180 Discovery Miles 311 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This set brings together published articles, papers and book chapters that are central to an informed understanding of race and ethnicity today. The volumes are arranged around four key themes and will resonate with both researchers and teachers in related fields, as well as those who are engaged in policy issues directly arising from racial and ethnic structures and behaviour.
With a new introduction and index, this internationally focused, multidisciplinary collection is an invaluable reference tool and teaching aid.

Woman Song (Paperback): Jean Goulbourne Woman Song (Paperback)
Jean Goulbourne
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a celebration of women who, through their resistance, creativity, and assertion of selfhood, have made a space for themselves. The celebration of such lives stands as a beacon of hope in the depiction of woman's place in a Jamaican society where abuse, poverty, and abandonment are pervasive. Jean Goulbourne articulates the grief, hopes, and unquenchable spirit of resistance of black women in the Caribbean.

Janice (Paperback): Jean Goulbourne Janice (Paperback)
Jean Goulbourne
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R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Complete Works of Voltaire 71C - Oeuvres de 1769-1770 (III) (Hardcover, Critical edition): W.D. Howarth, Goulbourne, A&l Complete Works of Voltaire 71C - Oeuvres de 1769-1770 (III) (Hardcover, Critical edition)
W.D. Howarth, Goulbourne, A&l; Voltaire
R4,076 Discovery Miles 40 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents a broad cross-section of Voltaire's continuing interests. "Le Depositaire", Voltaire's last comedy, echoing Moliere, expresses his theatrical ideal. The "Defense de Louis XIV" continues Voltaire's historical work while the "Requete a tous les magistrats" campaigns against religious abuses. The "Traduction du poeme de Jean Plokof" and the "Ode pindarique" support Catherine the Great's war against the Turks. "Le Systeme vraisemblable" supports Newton against d'Holbach while the philosophical fragment "Lettre de M. Hude" argues that all institutions are human constructions. The "Epitre au roi de la Chine" is a polemic on the role of literature and the lamentable state of contemporary France.

The Nun (Paperback): Denis Diderot The Nun (Paperback)
Denis Diderot; Translated by Russell Goulbourne
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R318 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R51 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you are a slave in the cloister.' Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succes de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Complete Works of Voltaire 3A - Oeuvres de 1723-1728 (I) (Hardcover, Critical edition): John Dunkley, Goulbourne Complete Works of Voltaire 3A - Oeuvres de 1723-1728 (I) (Hardcover, Critical edition)
John Dunkley, Goulbourne; Voltaire
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together works substantially composed in the years 1723 - 1728, a period of bold experimentation for the thirty-year-old Voltaire. An established tragedian, he now branched out in a wholly new direction with his one-act comedy, "L'Indiscret", performed for the first time in August 1725. This is also the period in which, for the first time, Voltaire began to conceive substantial works in prose.

The Extraordinarily Ordinary Baker Street (Paperback): Jean Goulbourne The Extraordinarily Ordinary Baker Street (Paperback)
Jean Goulbourne
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R246 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R47 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
When The Sun And The Moon Ran Away (Paperback): Maizle Goulbourne When The Sun And The Moon Ran Away (Paperback)
Maizle Goulbourne
R148 R118 Discovery Miles 1 180 Save R30 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain (Paperback): Harry Goulbourne Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain (Paperback)
Harry Goulbourne
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Harry Goulbourne's theme is how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity, instead of a traditional multi-ethnic/multi-racial understanding of the nation. He argues that the continuing 'reception-experience' of non-white groups in post-war Britain not only arose out of an ethnic perception of the British nation by the indigenous population, as expressed through state action, but has also, in turn, encouraged an equally ethnic awakening or mobilisation among non-white minorities. The result is a failure to construct a common national ground or sense of community by all those claiming a formal British identity. Goulbourne draws upon a diverse literature, including race relations, politics and history. His two case studies of the Khalistan question in the Punjab and democracy in Guyana are examples of how exilic politics may affect Britain's ethnic minorities, partly as a result of the experience of exclusion from British society.

Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Paperback): Jean Jacques Rousseau Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Paperback)
Jean Jacques Rousseau; Translated by Russell Goulbourne
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R263 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R32 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher determines to keep a faithful record of the thoughts and ideas that come to him on his perambulations. Part reminiscence, part reflection, enlivened by anecdote and encounters, the Reveries form a kind of sequel to his Confessions, but they are more introspective and less defensive: Rousseau finds happiness in solitude, walks in nature, botanizing, and meditation. Writing an account of his walks becomes a means of achieving self-knowledge and safeguarding for himself the pleasure that others, he is convinced, seek to deny him. The Reveries, shaped by the unmediated nature of Rousseau's thought processes, give powerfully lyrical expression to a painfully tortured soul in search of peace. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction and notes that explore the nature of the work and its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The 666 Murders - A Supernatural Thriller (Paperback): Alan Golbourn The 666 Murders - A Supernatural Thriller (Paperback)
Alan Golbourn
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R469 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R63 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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