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The Time Machine and Other Works (Paperback)
H. G. Wells; Introduction by Laurence Davies; Notes by Laurence Davies; Series edited by Keith Carrabine
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In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present
reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is
to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance,
waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new
technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised
industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller
finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different
species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the
solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The
Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space
against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces
vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and
physics.
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Dubliners (Paperback, New edition)
James Joyce; Introduction by Laurence Davies; Notes by Laurence Davies; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native
city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners
show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous
hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur
theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of
domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest
or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an
international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by
seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety
in Irish literature.
This collection of original essays examines the relationship
between anarchism and utopianism, exploring the intersections and
overlaps between these two fields of study and providing novel
perspectives for the analysis of both. The book opens with an
historical and philosophical survey of the subject matter and goes
on to examine antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia;
anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination;
free love as an expression of anarchist politics and utopian
desire; and revolutionary practice. Contributors explore the
creative interchange of anarchism and utopianism in both theory and
modern political practice; debunk some widely-held myths about the
inherent utopianism of anarchy; uncover the anarchistic influences
active in the history of utopian thought; and provide fresh
perspectives on contemporary academic and activist debates about
ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and
practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality. Scholars
in both anarchist and utopian studies have for many years
acknowledged a relationship between these two areas, but this is
the first time that the historical and philosophical dimensions of
the relationship have been investigated as a primary focus for
research, and its political significance given full and detailed
consideration. -- .
This collection of original essays examines the relationship
between anarchism and utopianism, exploring the intersections and
overlaps between these two fields of study and providing novel
perspectives for the analysis of both. The book opens with an
historical and philosophical survey of the subject matter and goes
on to examine antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia;
anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination;
free love as an expression of anarchist politics and utopian
desire; and revolutionary practice. Contributors explore the
creative interchange of anarchism and utopianism in both theory and
modern political practice; debunk some widely-held myths about the
inherent utopianism of anarchy; uncover the anarchistic influences
active in the history of utopian thought; and provide fresh
perspectives on contemporary academic and activist debates about
ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and
practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality. Scholars
in both anarchist and utopian studies have for many years
acknowledged a relationship between these two areas, but this is
the first time that the historical and philosophical dimensions of
the relationship have been investigated as a primary focus for
research, and its political significance given full and detailed
consideration. -- .
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852 1936) was one of the most brilliant
and mercurial characters of his day. Known as 'Don Roberto' and
'the Modern Don Quixote' because of his Spanish blood and impetuous
life-style, and as 'the Uncrowned King of Scotland' because of his
descent from King Robert II, he was a paradoxical man whose career
was astonishingly varied. After an early period as an adventurer,
when he worked as a cattle-rancher and horse-dealer in South
America and Texas, he embarked on a stormy political career. He was
the first socialist in Parliament, was gaoled after assailing the
police at the Battle of Trafalgar Square on Bloody Sunday, 1887,
later became the founder and president of the first Labour Party,
and was eventually elected president of the Scottish National
Party. Meanwhile he travelled in Morocco disguised as an Arab sheik
and prospected for gold in Spain.
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz
as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions--and
snares--of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist
society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and
political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel
remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter
Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection
of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics
covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary
collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist,
temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The
Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written
specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in
light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30
years.
During wartime, paranoia, gossip, and rumor become accepted forms
of behavior and dominant literary tropes. The Peculiar Sanity of
War examines the impact of war hysteria on definitions of sanity
and on standards of behavior during World War I. Drawing upon
Joseph Conrad's comprehensive understanding of war's impact on
soldiers and civilians alike, and extending Michel Foucault's
construction of madness and reason, Kingsbury expands the
definition of war neurosis to include peculiar sanity at home as
well as on the front lines. While other investigations of World War
I consider shell shock to be the only definable war madness,
Kingsbury is the first to build a powerful argument around the
insanity of the home front's vilification of the enemy. Ultimately,
Kingsbury's study establishes peculiar sanity, among civilians and
soldiers, as an inevitable response to war's madness.The Peculiar
Sanity of War begins by locating the roots of war mania in
Edwardian hypocrisy, then moves on to examine the way propaganda
operates in nontraditional texts, such as housekeeping guides, and
in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H. G. Wells,
Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Rudyard Kipling,
Virginia Woolf, and H. D. Celia Kingsbury's eloquent and moving
book . . . brings together war and madness in unexpected ways.
Beginning with a phrase from Joseph Conrad, she diagnoses the
condition of a culture gone awry, a 'peculiar sanity.' . . . --from
Laurence Davies's foreword
Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected
Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes,
many of them published for the first time and many more taken from
hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on
writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available
in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter
footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters
originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised
English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's
memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about
fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the
work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his
struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a
sailor and a family man.
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz
as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions--and
snares--of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist
society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and
political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel
remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter
Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection
of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics
covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary
collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist,
temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The
Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written
specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in
light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30
years.
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