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In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century
British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality
from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism.
Kelleher demonstrates how eighteenth-century British philosophers,
essayists, and novelists fundamentally reconceived the relations
among sentiment, sexuality, and moral virtue. It is his contention
that sentimental discourse, both philosophical and literary,
posited heterosexual desire as the precondition of moral feeling
and conduct. The author further suggests that sentimental writers
fashioned the ideal of conjugal love as an ideological antidote to
the theories of self-love and self-interest found in the works of
Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville. Heterosexual desire and its
culmination in conjugal love, in other words, were represented as
the privileged means for an individual to transcend self-love and
to develop a moral sensibility attuned to the thoughts and feelings
of others. At the same time, Kelleher suggests, other pleasures and
desires-particularly those rooted in same-sex eroticism-were
increasingly depicted as antithetical to conjugal love and, thus,
were morally devalued and socially disenfranchised. Kelleher's
argument unfolds through close readings of a variety of texts,
including Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions,
Times, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's the Tatler and the
Spectator, Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess, Samuel Richardson's
Pamela, and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Although these texts embody
diverse rhetorical strategies and thematic concerns, he shows how
they collectively reinforce an overarching sentimental ideology: on
the one hand, heterosexual desire and conjugal love become
synonymous with sympathy, benevolence, and moral goodness, while on
the other hand, same-sex desire is pathologized as a selfish
withdrawal from procreation, domesticity, sociability, and
ultimately, "humanity" itself.
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled
people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays
consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when
the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with
Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of
superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical
or mental difference. We then move to John Locke, the founder of
empiricism in 1680, who believed that the basis of knowledge was
observability, but who, faced with the lack of anything to observe,
broke his own epistemological rules in his explanation of mental
illness. Understanding the problems that empiricism set up, Anthony
Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, turned in 1711 to moral
philosophy, but also founded his philosophy on a flaw. He believed
in the harmony of "the aesthetic trinity of beauty, truth, and
virtue" but he could not believe that a disabled friend, whom he
knew to have been moral before his physical alteration, could
change inside. Lastly, we explore Thomas Reid who in 1788 returned
to the body as the ground of philosophical enquiry and saw the body
as a whole-complete in itself and wanting nothing, be it missing a
sense (Reid was deaf) or a physical or mental capacity. At the
heart of the study of any historical artifact is the question of
where to look for evidence, and when looking for evidence of
disability, we have largely to rely upon texts. However, texts come
in many forms, and the next two essays explore three types-the
novel, the periodical and the pamphlet-which pour out their ideas
of disability in different ways. Evidence of disabled people in the
eighteenth century is sparse, and the lives the more evanescent.
The last four essays bring to light little known disabled people,
or people who are little known for their disability, giving various
forms of biographical accounts of Susanna Harrison, Sarah Scott,
Priscilla Poynton and Thomas Gills, who are all but forgotten in
the academic world as well as to public consciousness.
Getting fired, dealing with bitter disputes, having your competence
or integrity challenged--these are experiences that educators have
all the time. But what's the difference between educators who
triumph over adversity versus those who succumb? Blending sage
wisdom and research with real stories from educators, this book
introduces you to three dimensions of resilience and describes
guiding principles that every educator can live by - Why realistic
optimism is critical. - How to use your Personal Strengths Triangle
as an anchor. - Which strategies help you strengthen your
confidence and competence. - How to harness four types of energy
that will enhance your effectiveness. - Ways to help school teams
through tough times.
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Nature I Loved (Paperback)
Bill Geagan; Foreword by Dee Dauphinee; Introduction by Paul Kelleher
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