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Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) was an English merchant, author of popular
self-help books, and early advocate of vegetarianism, best known
for The Way to Health, published in 1691, which inspired Benjamin
Franklin to adopt vegetarianism.
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The
essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial
formation concept, identify the power relations to which it
inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways
of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism,
homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic
exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction,
performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Collectively,
the contributors advance the argument that contemporary racial
theorizing remains mired in antiblackness. Across a diversity of
approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we
describe as the conceptual aphasia gripping racial theorizing in
our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when
confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical
struggle.
A family flees the crime-ridden city—and finds something
worse—in “a brilliantly imagined horror story” by the New
York Times–bestselling author (The Boston Globe). After watching
his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore
Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife
search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they
find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than
the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. Here they begin a new life:
simple, pure, close to nature—and ultimately more terrifying than
Manhattan’s darkest alley. When the Constantines win the
friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune,
they are invited to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home, a
ceremony whose quaintness disguises dark intentions. In this
bucolic hamlet, where bootleggers work by moonlight and all of the
villagers seem to share the same last name, the past is more
present than outsiders can fathom—and something far more sinister
than the annual harvest is about to rise out of the earth.
Credited as the inspiration for Stephen King’s Children of the
Corn, Thomas Tryon’s chilling novel was ahead of its time when
first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers.
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The
essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial
formation concept, identify the power relations to which it
inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways
of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism,
homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic
exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction,
performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Collectively,
the contributors advance the argument that contemporary racial
theorizing remains mired in antiblackness. Across a diversity of
approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we
describe as the conceptual aphasia gripping racial theorizing in
our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when
confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical
struggle.
Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They
are close, close enough, almost, to read each other's thoughts, but
they couldn't be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a
bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of
boy who makes his parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New
England town their family settled in centuries ago, and indeed, the
extended family has gathered at their farm this summer to mourn the
death of the twins' father in an unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry
never quite recovered from the shock and stays sequestered her
room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though,
and Holland's pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he
can no longer make excuses for his brother's actions. The Other is
a landmark of psychological horror, part of a lineage that includes
the works of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson,
and Peter Straub. Thomas Tryon's bestselling novel about a
homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that
dwells within everyone.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT109144With a final advertisement leaf.London:
printed for Tho. Bennet, 1704. 8],438, 2]p.: ill., port.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Huntington
Library<ESTCID>N045916<Notes>Anonymous. By Thomas
Tryon.<imprintFull>London: printed for G. Conyers, 1703.
<collation>84p.; 12
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