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Book The Generation of Edward Hyde

Download or read book The Generation of Edward Hyde written by Jay Bland and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde first appeared in 1886. Readers at the time commented on three major influences at work on the text: Darwinism, the Bible, and Platonism. With the passage of time commentators have tended to focus on either the Darwinian or the biblical implications surrounding Hyde, and the Platonic implications have been more or less overlooked. For a full understanding of Hyde all three must be considered; and they must all be considered together. This book locates Robert Louis Stevenson's Edward Hyde within the history of ideas. It examines a range of texts from earlier literature involving apes or ape-like creatures, thereby revealing a tradition which explores and questions the origins of mankind - theological, philosophical, and scientific - in an attempt to account for the presence of our lower impulses. The chosen texts show that, as knowledge of the natural world increases through exploration and scientific learning, earlier ways of looking at the world have accommodated new ideas by absorbing the new and incorporating it into the old mythological framework. The author demonstrates how this tradition feeds naturally into Stevenson's text, providing a Darwinian-biblical-Platonic context within which to examine Hyde.

Book The Lord Cornbury Scandal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia U. Bonomi
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2000-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780807848692
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Lord Cornbury Scandal written by Patricia U. Bonomi and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portrait of a viscount in women's clothing from the colonial government of New York addresses the climate of political corruption, conspiracy, slander, and rumormongering prevalent in his times. Also addressed are the postwar American Whig tendencies to completely discount colonial benevolence and well-kept provincial politics in favor of scorn and derision of the British colonial government.

Book Slickrock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Abbey
  • Publisher : Sierra Club Books
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Slickrock written by Edward Abbey and published by Sierra Club Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial exposition of the natural wonders that fashion the Utah wilderness, supplemented by personal thoughts on the reasons for its conservation.

Book Hyde Genealogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reuben Hyde Walworth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1864
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 746 pages

Download or read book Hyde Genealogy written by Reuben Hyde Walworth and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyde Genealogy, Or, The Descendants, In the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde, Of Norwich by Reuben Hyde Walworth, first published in 1864, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Book New Jersey History

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book New Jersey History written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society written by New Jersey Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Oct. 1927 and Oct. 1930 contain sections of a serial article by John C. Honeyman on the history of Zion, St. Paul and other early Lutheran churches in New Jersey.

Book The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine

Download or read book The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

Book Wiltshire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Wiltshire Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A compleat Collection of Tracts by     Edward  Earl of Clarendon  etc

Download or read book A compleat Collection of Tracts by Edward Earl of Clarendon etc written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of several tracts of     Edward  Earl of Clarendon  author of the history of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England  Published from his     original Manuscripts

Download or read book A Collection of several tracts of Edward Earl of Clarendon author of the history of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Published from his original Manuscripts written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Edward  Earl of Clarendon  Lord High Chancellor of England  Author of the History of the Rebellion and Civil wars in England

Download or read book The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England Author of the History of the Rebellion and Civil wars in England written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ely Ancestry

Download or read book The Ely Ancestry written by Moses Sperry Beach and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Denman Family History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harriet Newell Harris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Denman Family History written by Harriet Newell Harris and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Denman was born 1591 in Retford, Nottingham, England. He married Judith Stoughton of Surrey, England sometime prior to 1621. They were the parents of one known son and one daughter. John died 1623 in England. Judith immigrated to America from Gravesend, England with her children aboard the ship "Dorset" and landed in Boston in the year 1635. They settled in the Salem Colony of Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio and elsewhere.

Book The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

Download or read book The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry written by T. S. Eliot and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy. While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as a poet and critic living in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally termed “metaphysical”—philosophical and intellectual poetry that revels in startlingly unconventional imagery. Eliot came to perceive a gradual “disintegration of the intellect” following three “metaphysical moments” of European civilization—the thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth centuries. The theory is at once a provocative prism through which to view Western intellectual and literary history and an exceptional insight into Eliot’s own intellectual development. This annotated edition includes the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1933. They reveal in great depth the historical currents of poetry and philosophy that shaped Eliot’s own metaphysical moment in the twentieth century.

Book Stockport

Download or read book Stockport written by Henry Heginbotham and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aphra Behn  A Secret Life

Download or read book Aphra Behn A Secret Life written by Janet Todd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic and bisexual, political propagandist, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. In this revised biography, Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the nineteen plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'. Janet Todd, novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ. An expert on women's writing and feminism, she has written about many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn. 'Ground-breaking it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd's throwaway lines are steeped in learning' Women's Review of Books 'A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers' Times Higher Education Supplement

Book An Anthology of English Prose from Bede to R L S

Download or read book An Anthology of English Prose from Bede to R L S written by S. L. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: