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This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have
sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as
contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be
necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we
know it. The idea of stewardship - human responsibility to tend the
Earth - has been central to human cultures throughout history, as
evident in the Judeo-Christian Genesis story of the Garden of Eden
and in a diverse range of parallel tales from other traditions
around the world. Despite such foundational hortatory stories about
preserving the earth on which we live, humanity in the Anthropocene
is nevertheless currently destroying the planet with breathtaking
speed. Much research on stewardship today - in the disciplines of
geography, urban studies, oceans research, and green business
practice - offers insights that should help address the ecological
challenges facing the planet. Simultaneous scholarship in the
humanities and other fields reminds us that the damage done to the
planet has often been carried out in the name of tending the land.
In order to make progress in environmental stewardship, scholars
must speak to each other across the disciplinary boundaries, as
they do in this volume.
A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier
Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert
Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography
offers details about her life, including evidence about three
illegitimate children by John Tilly, Governor of Fleet Prison.
A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier
Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert
Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography
offers details about her life, including evidence about three
illegitimate children by John Tilly, Governor of Fleet Prison.
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley,
providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with
annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political
propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the
novel.
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley,
providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with
annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political
propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the
novel.
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley,
providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with
annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political
propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the
novel.
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley,
providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with
annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political
propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the
novel.
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley,
providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with
annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political
propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the
novel.
A country bitterly divided between two political parties. Populist
mobs rising in support of a reactionary rabble-rouser. Foreign
interference in the political process. Strained relations between
Britain and Europe. These are not recent headlines they are from
the year 1710, when Queen Anne ruled Britain. In her engagingly
written Backlash, Rachel Carnell tells the fascinating and
entertaining account of the reign of Queen Anne and the true story
behind the fall of the Whig government imaginatively depicted in
the 2018 film The Favourite. As Carnell shows, the truth was
significantly different and in many ways more interesting than what
the film depicted. The backlash began in 1709 when the Whigs
arrested a popular female Tory political satirist and then
impeached a provocative High Church clergyman for preaching a
sermon repudiating the ideals of parliamentary monarchy and
religious tolerance. The impeachment trial backfired, and mobs
surged in the streets supporting the Tory preacher and threatening
religious minorities. With charges dropped against the satirist, by
1710 she had written a best-selling sequel. Queen Anne was careful
and diligent in her monarchical duties. She tried to run a
government balanced between the parties, but finally torn between
the Whigs (including her longtime friends the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough) and the proto-Brexiteer Tories, she dissolved
Parliament and called for elections. This brought in a majority for
the Tories, who swiftly began passing reactionary legislation.
While the Whigs would return to power after Anne's death in 1714
and reverse the Tory policies, this little-known era offers an
important historical perspective on the populist backlashes in the
United States and United Kingdom today.
Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the
sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled
readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the
important position that the genre occupies within the literary and
political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of
British, French and American literature, as well as political and
intellectual history, this new volume of essays demonstrates for
the first time the extent of secret history's interaction with
different literary traditions, including epic poetry, Restoration
drama, periodicals, and slave narratives. It reveals secret
history's impact on authors, readers, and the book trade in
England, France, and America throughout the long eighteenth
century. In doing so, it offers a case study for approaching
questions of genre at moments when political and cultural shifts
put strain on traditional generic categories.
Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the
sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled
readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the
important position that the genre occupies within the literary and
political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of
British, French and American literature, as well as political and
intellectual history, this new volume of essays demonstrates for
the first time the extent of secret history's interaction with
different literary traditions, including epic poetry, Restoration
drama, periodicals, and slave narratives. It reveals secret
history's impact on authors, readers, and the book trade in
England, France, and America throughout the long eighteenth
century. In doing so, it offers a case study for approaching
questions of genre at moments when political and cultural shifts
put strain on traditional generic categories.
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