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Fresh Strange Music

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language

By: Donald S. Hair

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Fresh Strange Music

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language

By: Donald S. Hair

Elizabeth Barrett Browning evokes several figures as muses for her poetry, and one recurring type is the music master. While her writing has always been recognized as highly experimental, the influence and use of music in her work have not been fully examined. Fresh Strange Music defines the exact nature of Browning's experiments and innovations in rhythm, which she called the "animal life" of poetry, and in sound repetition, which she labelled her "rhymatology." Donald Hair approaches Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art with a focus on the power that shapes it - the technical music of her poetry and the recurring beat at the beginning of units of equal time that requires a different system of scansion than conventional metres and syllable counting. Music for Barrett Browning, Hair explains, has momentous implications. In her early poetry, it is the promoter of kindly and loving relations in families and in society. Later in her career, she makes it the basis of nation-building, in her support for the unification of Italy and, more problematically, in her championing of French emperor Napoleon III. Fresh Strange Music traces the development of Barrett Browning's poetics through all her works - from the early An Essay on Mind to Last Poems - showcasing her as a major poet, independently minded, and highly innovative in her rhythms and rhymes.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773597670

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9780773597679

A Divine Comedy

The Complete Story of Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns in One Volume

By: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

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A Divine Comedy

The Complete Story of Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns in One Volume

By: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

A Divine Comedy is a compilation of the author’s novels True and its sequel One. This book is also available for purchase by Kindle device and app users in the Kindle Store on Amazon.com.

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Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

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1434963446

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9781434963444

True

The Sacred and Profane Dialogues of Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns

By: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

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The Sacred and Profane Dialogues of Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns

By: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

True is an autobiographical, star-crossed romance set in Europe in 1985, whose theme is self-discovery. This book is also available for purchase by Kindle device and app users in the Kindle Store on Amazon.com.

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Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.

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0805981586

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9780805981582

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

By: Don Herzog

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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

By: Don Herzog

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.

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Princeton University Press

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069122837X

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