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The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the
burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the
Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De
Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the
world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the
immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in
the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive
assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist,
subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator,
hedonist, and much else.
Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts
of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces
criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present,
including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive
introductory comment and annotation complement extracts from
critical and contextual texts. The book concludes with fourteen
widely studied passages from Pride and Prejudice, reprinted with
editorial comment.
In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite
scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous
attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and
religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not
consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his
patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines
in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's
science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in
other non-scientific writings. Sources suggest that Nisaburi was
inspired to begin his scientific career by the inclusion of basic
science in a religious (madrasa) education. By mid-career, he had
found methodological similarities between theoretical astronomy and
Islamic jurisprudence. Morrison concludes that while Nisaburi
believed science could give one a taste of God's knowledge, he
realised that the study of science and natural philosophy alone
could not lead him to a spiritual union with God. Only Sufi
practice and Sufi theory could accomplish that. Morrison's work is
remarkable in synthesizing the history of Islamic science with
other areas of Islamic studies. It will be of interest to students
and scholars of religion and the history of science, as well as
readers with a more general interest in Middle Eastern studies.
Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics
Studies 2009
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the
burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the
Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De
Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the
world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the
immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in
the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive
assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist,
subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator,
hedonist, and much else.
In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite
scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous
attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and
religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not
consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his
patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines
in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's
science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in
other non-scientific writings. Sources suggest that Nisaburi was
inspired to begin his scientific career by the inclusion of basic
science in a religious (madrasa) education. By mid-career, he had
found methodological similarities between theoretical astronomy and
Islamic jurisprudence. Morrison concludes that while Nisaburi
believed science could give one a taste of God's knowledge, he
realised that the study of science and natural philosophy alone
could not lead him to a spiritual union with God. Only Sufi
practice and Sufi theory could accomplish that. Morrison's work is
remarkable in synthesizing the history of Islamic science with
other areas of Islamic studies. It will be of interest to students
and scholars of religion and the history of science, as well as
readers with a more general interest in Middle Eastern studies.
Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics
Studies 2009
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) is perhaps her most
popular novel. A work of comedy, wit, romance, it is also haunted
by ironic shadows and dark anxieties as Austen traces the fortunes
of central character Elizabeth Bennet.
This guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted
contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory
comment and annotation by the volume editor. It is divided into
sections as follows:
*"Contexts," which an overview of social and intellectual contexts
to Austen's work with a variety of extracts from relevant documents
of the time, ranging from female conduct books to political tales
of terror
*"interpretations," which traces the reception and academic
criticism of Pride and Prejudice from the nineteenth-century to the
present, in a series of readings, and also includes material on the
1995 film adaptation of the novel
*"Key Passages," which reprints and offers critical commentary on
fourteen widely studied passages of the novel, linking them to
contextual and critical material elsewhere in the sourcebook
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's
major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set
will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of
his periodical essays.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1774-1859) was one of the most prolific and
influential writers on British culture and politics in the first
half of the 19th century. Hunt's contribution to romantic
literature was as extensive as it has proven to be durable, in
matters as various as prosodic experimentation and the
modernisation of the magazine essay.
`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the
marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed,
crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"'
John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the
same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is
a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron,
and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of
earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence
and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. Polidori's
tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a
vampire craze that has never subsided. `The Vampyre' was first
published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present
volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published
in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838,
including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger,
Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William
Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James
Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.
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.
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Betrayers (Paperback)
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Things go wrong in a big way for Candy Somerville when her father
commits suicide. Feeling herself responsible, she is driven by
guilt into a journey to Thailand on an insane mission. When she
arrives in Bangkok in 1992 during the uprising against the military
junta, a large amount of heroin is found in her baggage, leading to
her imprisonment on a capital charge, in the infamous Klong Prem
prison. Her father's old friend, a consul at the embassy, offers to
get her legal help but she refuses to talk to him. Her brother and
their uncle arrive from Sydney expecting to at least win her bail
from prison, but she violently rejects their assistance. Sensing a
story, the beautiful Bangkok correspondent for a Sydney television
channel works on the brother for information. Meanwhile, the consul
and her uncle manage to bribe a corrupt Army colonel to release
Candy from prison. Much to her dismay, she is released. And then
the colonel discovers he has been compromised by a news report
about h
The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era,
yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency
period (1811-1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales-the future
king George IV-succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent
surged a society of contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism,
elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. Capturing the
Napoleonic Wars, the rise of artists-the Shelleys, Austen, Keats,
Byron, Turner-scientists and inventors-Stevenson, Davy, Faraday-and
a cast of dissident journalists, military leaders, and
fashionistas, Robert Morrison captivatingly illuminates the ways
this period shaped the modern world.
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what
an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an
apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions
of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug
use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the
Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he
also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths
of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to
renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep
afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful
and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human
creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De
Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness
against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial
power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in
impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are
highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three
main texts. 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.
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