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The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first
overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies. The
volume includes a co-authored critical introduction and a
comprehensive compilation of key term entries contributed by
leading reenactment scholars from Europe, North America, and
Australia. Well into the future, this wide-ranging reference work
will inform and shape the thinking of researchers, teachers, and
students of history and heritage and memory studies, as well as
cultural studies, film, theater and performance studies, dance, art
history, museum studies, literary criticism, musicology, and
anthropology.
This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the
phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the
market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.
This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the
phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the
market, global exploration, theatre and torture. Sympathy, the
sudden and spontaneous entry of one person s feelings into those of
another, made it possible for people to share sentiments so vividly
that neither reason nor self-interest could limit the degree to
which individuals might care for others, or act involuntarily on
their behalf. The progress of sympathy is intertwined with the
period of global exploration evidenced by Cook s voyages and the
rise of the sentimental novel before being met by growing suspicion
in the works of radicals such as Wollstonecraft and Godwin. The
history of sympathy seems to involve a dialectic of immediacy and
artifice in which the knowledge of what it is like to be someone
else is alternately the product of involuntary passion and of
conscious manipulation. The question of social virtue, where it
comes from, how it is aroused and in what direction it tends is
perpetually being interrogated with no definite answer ever
emerging.
The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first
overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies. The
volume includes a co-authored critical introduction and a
comprehensive compilation of key term entries contributed by
leading reenactment scholars from Europe, North America, and
Australia. Well into the future, this wide-ranging reference work
will inform and shape the thinking of researchers, teachers, and
students of history and heritage and memory studies, as well as
cultural studies, film, theater and performance studies, dance, art
history, museum studies, literary criticism, musicology, and
anthropology.
Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime
travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was
normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered
between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents
an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing the
speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of
the disease that its victims couldn't because they found their
illness too terrible and, in some cases, too exciting. Drawing on
historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major
literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of scurvy during
the eighteenth-century age of geographical and scientific
discovery. He explains the medical knowledge surrounding scurvy and
the debates about its cause, prevention, and attempted cures. He
vividly describes the phenomenon and experience of "scorbutic
nostalgia," in which victims imagined mirages of food, water, or
home, and then wept when such pleasures proved impossible to
consume or reach. Lamb argues that a culture of scurvy arose in the
colony of Australia, which was prey to the disease in its early
years, and identifies a literature of scurvy in the works of such
figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon,
and Jonathan Swift. Masterful and illuminating, Scurvy shows how
the journeys of discovery in the eighteenth century not only
ventured outward to the ends of the earth, but were also an inward
voyage into the realms of sensation and passion.
"As my sense of the turpitude and guilt of sin was weakened, the
vices of the natives appeared less odious and criminal. After a
time, I was induced to yield to their allurements, to imitate their
manners, and to join them in their sins . . . and it was not long
ere I disencumbered myself of my European garment, and contented
myself with the native dress. . . ."--from "Narrative of the late
George Vason, of Nottingham"
As George Vason's anguished narrative shows, European encounters
with Pacific peoples often proved as wrenching to the Europeans as
to the natives. This anthology gathers some of the most vivid
accounts of these cultural exchanges for the first time, placing
the works of well-known figures such as Captain James Cook and
Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known
explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travelers who
roamed the South Seas from the late seventeenth through the late
nineteenth centuries.
Here we discover the stories of the British buccaneers and
privateers who were lured to the Pacific by stories of fabulous
wealth; of the scientists, cartographers, and natural historians
who tried to fit the missing bits of terra incognita into a
universal scheme of knowledge; and of the varied settlers who
established a permanent European presence in Polynesia and
Australia. Through their detailed commentary on each piece and
their choice of selections, the editors--all respected scholars of
the literature and cultures of the Pacific--emphasize the mutuality
of impact of these colonial encounters and the continuity of
Pacific cultures that still have the power to transform visitors
today.
An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century
Scurvy-a disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime
travel-generated extraordinary sensations. Eyes dazzled, skin was
morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In
this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy
unlike any other, probing its cultural impact during the
eighteenth-century age of geographic and scientific discovery.
Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well
as major literary works, Lamb explains the medical knowledge
surrounding scurvy and the debates about its cause, prevention, and
attempted cures. He argues that a "culture" of scurvy arose in the
colony of Australia, which was prey to the disease in its early
years, and identifies a literature of scurvy in the works of such
figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon,
and Jonathan Swift. Masterful and illuminating, Scurvy shows how
eighteenth-century journeys of discovery not only ventured outward
to the ends of the earth, but were also an inward voyage into the
realms of sensation and passion.
Understanding and Using the Bible is an engaging and exciting
introduction to biblical methods and practices of study, edited by
two trusted teachers in collaboration with a diverse array of
contributors. Part one explores key Christian beliefs about the
Bible and why it matters, guides effective use and application of
the Bible in different cultural and social contexts, and encourages
readers to take the Bible as a whole and build a biblical
worldview. Part two illustrates applied Bible use in different
contexts with contributions from a variety of authors.
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the
eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things
such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an
ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives"
became so popular. What does it mean when property declares
independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan
Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new
interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay,
and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas
journals. Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical
quality of what things say; their interests are so radically
different from ours that we either destroy or worship them.
Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil
society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to
slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick
Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never
saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls "the Sense
of Things," and it is found in sounds, substances, and images
rather than conventional signs. This major work illuminates not
only "it narratives," but also eighteenth-century literature, the
rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative.
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Habakkuk (Paperback)
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Who is in control? The sustained threat from rogue states,
international terrorism, religious extremists, and moral confusion
arising from liberal views of all kinds begs the question: what is
happening to our world? Is no-one in control? This is a deep
vulnerability that many people express. And not simply in global
events. Our own personal world often seems out of control as we
reel from suffering, family tragedies and unanswered prayers. The
prophet Habakkuk knew that God was in control but, like us, his
personal experience seemed to contradict this and he wrestled with
the tension. This book is a dialogue between the prophet and God.
Habakkuk confronts God with his confusion and, in doing so, he
expresses the voice of the godly in Judah and he speaks for us. We
join in the journey from 'why?' to worship.
The oil business has never been truly a market, where prices are
determined by simple supply and demand. Instead it is distorted by
long lead times, a producer cartel, subsidies and a lack of true
alternatives. Jonathan Lamb argues that this is all changing.
Fracking has provided a resource with unparalleled flexibility,
subsidies are in retreat, natural gas is conquering all, while the
price gyrations of the past decade have forced an industry focus on
costs and technology. The threat of alternatives is forcing the
pace of efficiency and the threat of peak demand has changed the
way that resource holders view the business. Oil prices are driven
more by market forces than ever before, making high prices
unsustainable, potentially good news for consumers, if not the
planet.
The Banjax Arrest is a psychological mystery set among religious
fanatics on a distant lunar colony. This fast-paced novel combines
a young man's inner struggle with a quest to bring down a tyrant
and rescue a community from impending destruction. After sustaining
a traumatic head injury as a teenager Troy Pace suffers severe
memory loss and his personality is altered. Once a promising
student he becomes an anti-social drop-out whose repeated brushes
with the law embarrass his high-ranking politician father.
Following a violent nocturnal episode with a young woman he is
dispatched to a remote moon acquired for habitation by the fugitive
tycoon Baron Banjax. There he discovers a colony whose inhabitants
are struggling to survive after a devastating meteorite impact and
over which hangs the shadow of the ruthless cult leader, Croman.
Still struggling to control his own demonic urges, Troy undertakes
to carry out an assassination that will save the colonists. Yet in
seeking redemption for his past misdeeds he will ultimately learn
that he is a pawn in an even more sinister game.
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