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Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence
that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the
life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book
Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways
in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain such
continuities and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the
heart of his creativity. Habitually reviewing all of his work, both
published and that still in manuscript, Wordsworth painstakingly
revised at the level of verbal detail or recast it more largely.
New poems frequently emerged from re-engagement with old, often
serving as a sequel to or commentary from the maturer poet on his
own earlier creation, and acts of self-borrowing and self-reference
are plentiful. These linkings provide insights into the powerful
vision the poet maintained that his imaginative creation was one
evolving unity and reveal much about the obsessions and drives of
the great poet. Combining textual analysis, critical commentary,
and biographical narrative, Gill explores what binds Wordsworth's
later, less well-known poems to his earlier work. At the centre of
the book is an account of the evolution of The Prelude from 1804 to
1839, in which it is argued that Wordsworth's masterpiece must be
followed through all its versions, seen as a poem growing old
alongside its creator.
The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is
the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry
and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The
familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included,
but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection
of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide
to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the
political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is
presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how
Wordsworth's changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as
poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that
which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace
through successive published volumes the development of
Wordsworth's public poetic self, while also being able to follow
the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason,
Wordsworth did not choose to make public when it was written - The
Prelude being the greatest and most obvious example.
Master the most important areas of today's tax law with
Whittenburg/Altus-Buller/Gill's best-selling INCOME TAX
FUNDAMENTALS 2022. This concise, practical introduction to tax
preparation uses a unique, step-by-step workbook format that
integrates actual tax forms. You learn the complexities of the U.S.
income tax code as this edition's clear, up-to-date presentation
walks you through real, current examples using the most recent tax
forms. A variety of end-of-chapter problems and online exercises
offers hands-on practice with tax return problems that use source
documents identical to those of real clients. Professional Intuit
(R) ProConnect (TM) tax preparation software also accompanies each
new book. In addition, numerous study tools and powerful online
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further refine your knowledge and practical skills to become a
successful tax preparer today.
In this fully updated and revised new edition, this challenging
work further develops a radical theory of the new world order to
argue that as the globalization of power intensifies, so too do
globalized forms of resistance. Leading political scientist Stephen
Gill explains this dialectic of power and resistance involving
governance, political economy and civilization with reference to
struggles as far-reaching as US supremacy, the power of capital,
market civilization, new constitutionalism, neo-liberalism and
disciplinary and surveillance power.
Because of increasing inequality, massive social dislocations,
cultural conflict and economic crisis associated with disciplinary
neo-liberalism and market civilization, challenges from left and
right to capitalist globalization have become manifest. The
politics of globalization will hinge upon the balance of forces
between the old and the new, between dominant and subordinate power
and thus with challenges associated with new forms of political
agency linked to 'transformative resistance'. In two new chapters,
Gill also analyzes the nature of, and struggles over, key legal and
constitutional transformations associated with the emerging world
order and explores alternative scenarios and social forces to
reflect on the new forms of political struggle that will shape
global politics for the foreseeable future.
This work is essential reading for all those concerned with
globalization, global political economy and international studies.
Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state,
society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics
and expectations. In this collection, globalization and
multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology,
and strategy. Epistemology entails critical questioning of the
nature of knowledge and its foundations. Ontology concerns the
significant factors in global political economy. Strategy involves
how to move world affairs from its present condition towards
normative goals enunciated in the MUNS programme, so as to promote
collective ability to channel structural change in a more
democratic direction.
Master the most important areas of today's tax law with
Whittenburg/Gill's best-selling INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS 2023. This
concise, practical introduction to tax preparation uses a unique,
step-by-step workbook format that integrates real, current examples
and uses the most recent actual tax forms. You learn the
complexities of the U.S. income tax code as this edition's clear,
up-to-date presentation walks you through the most recent tax laws,
revisions and changes. Updated end-of-chapter problems and online
exercises let you practice completing tax return problems using
real source documents identical to those of actual clients. You
also learn to use professional Intuit (R) ProConnect (TM) tax
preparation software that accompanies each new book. In addition,
study tools and helpful resources within the CNOWv2 online homework
tool help you further refine your knowledge and practical skills to
become a successful tax preparer.
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical
innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new
research problems, this collection of critically minded, original
essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted
directions. Bridging social theory and international relations
theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the
everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributors are
drawn from four continents and include such leading scholars as
Richard Falk, James Rosenau, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, and Susan Strange.
Although a diverse group, they find the contemporary world order is
in the throes of a structural transformation, which can be partly
understood in terms of emancipation: the self-actualisation of
human potential and community that looks beyond the current era in
which neo-liberal globalisation is dominant, to a more democratic
and just world order.
Gain a thorough understanding of tax research today with the
hands-on practice you need to succeed in class and on the job.
Sawyers/Gill's market-leading FEDERAL TAX RESEARCH, 12E's
step-by-step approach uses current examples and engaging
discussions to focus on the most important elements of federal tax
law and tax practices. You work with the latest versions of today's
most popular online tax research tools, including Thomson Reuters
Checkpoint, CCH IntelliConnect, and BNA Bloomberg. Significant
updates address ethical challenges in taxation today, qualified
business income deductions and other legislative changes enacted by
the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as well as how Congress enacts
technical changes. Coverage of professional and legal
responsibilities and IRS practices and procedures helps you prepare
for the CPA exam, while a focus on key research skills, critical
problem-solving and communication skills prepares you for success
in today's workplace.
William Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude is a fascinating work-as
autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the
formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical
evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an
unstable literary text, which mutated through at least five
discernable versions from 1799-1839; and as a poem offering the
pleasures of blank verse in a variety and to an intensity unmatched
in English non-dramatic poetry. In this collection, leading
Wordsworth scholar Stephen Gill, gathers together thirteen
influential essays on The Prelude. The volume as a whole is a
useful and inspiring companion for students and general readers of
Wordsworth's greatest, but most demanding poem.
Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.
This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal
and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power
and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for
challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It
provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism
and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how
this disciplines populations according to the intensifying demands
of corporations and market forces in global market civilization.
Contributors examine global and local public policy challenges and
consider if the ongoing crises of capitalism and world order offer
states and societies opportunities to challenge this loss of policy
autonomy and potentially to refashion world order. Integrating
approaches to governance and world order from both leading and
emerging scholars, this is an innovative, indispensable source for
policy-makers, civil society organizations, professionals and
students in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy and
international relations.
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill
draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his
reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to
treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography
presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life-1770 to
1850-tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone
of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the
old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various
phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical
sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and
family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they
wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the
personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully
treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the
production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued
poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every
detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second
edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a
conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and
comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do
so in the years to come.
Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state,
society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics
and expectations. In this IPE Classic, globalization and
multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology,
and strategy, with a new Foreword and Preface. Epistemology entails
critical questioning of the nature of knowledge and its
foundations. Ontology concerns the significant factors in global
political economy. Strategy involves how to move world affairs from
its present condition towards normative goals enunciated in the
MUNS programme, so as to promote collective ability to channel
structural change in a more democratic direction.
This challenging work develops a radical theory of the new world order to argue that as the globalization of power intensifies, so too do globalized forms of resistance. Stephen Gill explains how the dialectic of power and resistance involves issues of governance, economy, and culture. This struggle is reflected in the questions of American supremacy, the power of capital, market civilization, and surveillance power. Thus new forms of political agency and collective action are emerging to challenge dominant powers.
Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state,
society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics
and expectations. In this collection, globalization and
multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology,
and strategy. Epistemology entails critical questioning of the
nature of knowledge and its foundations. Ontology concerns the
significant factors in global political economy. Strategy involves
how to move world affairs from its present condition towards
normative goals enunciated in the MUNS programme, so as to promote
collective ability to channel structural change in a more
democratic direction.
One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William
Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of
the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This
volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative
period of Wordsworth's life? from ?Tintern Abbey, ? an ode on the
restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship
with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem,
"The Prelude." Also included are much-loved short works such as ?I
wandered as lonely as a Cloud, ? ?Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
? and the poignant ?Lucy Gray.? These poems demonstrate
Wordsworth's astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the
sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.
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The Major Works (Paperback)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Stephen Gill
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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed
Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank
Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's
poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important
letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and
thinking. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the
best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads,
written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English
romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and
poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that
was profoundly innovative. This volume presents the poems in their
order of composition and in their earliest completed state,
enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to
share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large
sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The
Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the
autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major
examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also
included. 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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Hackney Kisses (Hardcover)
Timothy Prus; Edited by Stephen Gill; Produced by Stephen Gill
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British documentary photographer and artist Stephen Gill (born
1971) presents a collection of found photographs from postwar
Hackney, a borough in East London, in the 1950s. Photographer
unknown, these high-quality, medium-format images all depict
couples kissing on their wedding days, surrounded by overexposed
wedding cakes, guests and decadent flower arrangements.
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The Nether World (Paperback)
George Gissing; Edited by Stephen Gill
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The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of
Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic,
sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans,
factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s. But
this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's
mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty -
of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the
nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and relentlessness, Gissing
lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and
expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of
intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a
mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted
love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the
strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and
struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly
maintains, there can be no escape. 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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Oliver Twist (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Kathleen Tillotson; Introduction by Stephen Gill
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born
in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which
pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this
novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the
workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering
criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a
romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and
violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries. The new
Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the
authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text
of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended
himself against hostile criticism, and includes all twenty-four
original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's
groundbreaking introduction gives a fascinating new account of the
novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on
Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver
Twist and the New Poor Law, and on thieves' slang.
This path-breaking collection analyses the dialectic between legal
and constitutional innovations intended to inscribe corporate power
and market disciplines in world order, and the potential for
challenges and alternative frameworks of governance to emerge. It
provides a comprehensive approach to neo-liberal constitutionalism
and regulation and limits to policy autonomy of states, and how
this disciplines populations according to the intensifying demands
of corporations and market forces in global market civilization.
Contributors examine global and local public policy challenges and
consider if the ongoing crises of capitalism and world order offer
states and societies opportunities to challenge this loss of policy
autonomy and potentially to refashion world order. Integrating
approaches to governance and world order from both leading and
emerging scholars, this is an innovative, indispensable source for
policy-makers, civil society organizations, professionals and
students in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy and
international relations.
There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the
Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the
editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have
newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850 thus
freeing the latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by
Wordsworth's literary executors. The editors also provide a text of
MS. JJ (Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as
well as transcriptions of other important passages in manuscript
which Wordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem.
The texts are fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions
of The Prelude are arranged so that each version may be read
independently. The editors provide a concise history of the texts
and describe the principles by which each has been transcribed from
the manuscripts. There are many other aids for a thorough study of
The Prelude and its background. A chronological table enables the
reader to contextualize the biographical and historical allusions
in the texts and footnotes. "References to The Prelude in Process"
presents the relevant allusions to the poem, by Wordsworth and by
members of his circle, from 1799 to 1850. Another section, "Early
Reception," reprints significant comments on the published version
of 1850 by readers and reviewers. Finally, there are seven critical
essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman,
Richard J. Onorato, William Empson, Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B.
Gallie."
Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.
This collection of original essays is the first attempt to explore the relationship between theoretical innovation in international studies and historical transformations. Leading scholars reflect on the flux, uncertainty and transformation of world orders, and sketch the contours of the emerging world order. The contributions revolve around four specific themes: the remaking of global theory; structural change in political economy and ecology in an age of globalization; social movements of transformation and emancipation; and reflection on world order in the next century.
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