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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

By: Peter Knox-Shaw

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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

By: Peter Knox-Shaw

Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Knox-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the many shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456679

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Forging Romantic China

Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840

By: Peter J. Kitson

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Forging Romantic China

Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840

By: Peter J. Kitson

The first major study to focus on British and Chinese cultural relations in the Romantic period.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107045614

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Northern Star

J.S. Plaskett

By: R. Peter Broughton

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Northern Star

J.S. Plaskett

By: R. Peter Broughton

Northern Star explores Plaskett's unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roots near Woodstock through his days as a technician at the University of Toronto to his initiation in astronomy at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442630175

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Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Naturalists and Novelists

By: Peter W. Graham

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Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Naturalists and Novelists

By: Peter W. Graham

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these characterizations are at least partially interchangeable, as each author possessed skills that would serve well in either arena. Both Austen and Darwin are naturalists who look with a sharp, cold eye at the concrete particulars of the world around them. Both are in certain senses novelists who weave densely particularized and convincingly grounded narratives that convey their personal observations and perceptions to wide readerships. When taken seriously, the words and works of Austen and Darwin encourage their readers to look closely at the social and natural worlds around them and form opinions based on individual judgment rather than on transmitted opinion. Graham's four interlocked essays begin by situating Austen and Darwin in the English empirical tradition and focusing on the uncanny similarities in the two writers' respective circumstances and preoccupations. Both Austen and Darwin were fascinated by sibling relations. Both were acute observers and analysts of courtship rituals. Both understood constant change as the way of the world, whether the microcosm under consideration is geological, biological, social, or literary. Both grasped the importance of scale in making observations. Both discerned the connection between minute, particular causes and vast, general effects. Employing the trenchant analytical talents associated with his subjects and informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and the best of recent work by historians of science, Graham has given us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.

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Routledge

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1317111494

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Envisioning Africa

Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

By: Peter Edgerly Firchow

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Envisioning Africa

Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

By: Peter Edgerly Firchow

For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of Darkness is a novel rather than a sociological treatise; only in relation to its aesthetic significance can real social and intellectual-historical meaning be established. Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account. Firchow uses a framework of imagology to examine how national, ethnic, and racial images are portrayed in the text, differentiating the idea of a national stereotype from that of national character. He believes that what Conrad saw personally in Africa should not be confused with the Africa he describes in the novel; Heart of Darkness is instead an envisioning and a revisioning of Conrad's experiences in the medium of fiction.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813181453

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9780813181455

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

By: Christopher Brooke,Christopher N. L. Brooke,Damian Riehl Leader,Victor Morgan,Peter Searby

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A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

By: Christopher Brooke,Christopher N. L. Brooke,Damian Riehl Leader,Victor Morgan,Peter Searby

This is the fourth volume of A History of the University of Cambridge and explores the extraordinary growth in size and academic stature of the University between 1870 and 1990. Though the University has made great advances since the 1870s, when it was viewed as a provincial seminary, it is also the home of tradition: a federation of colleges, one over 700 years old, one of the 1970s. This book seeks to penetrate the nature of the colleges and of the federation; and to show the way in which university faculties and departments have come to vie with the colleges for this predominant role. It attempts to unravel a fascinating institutional story of the society of the University and its place in the world. It explores in depth the themes of religion and learning, and of the entry of women into a once male environment. There are portraits of seminal and characteristic figures of the Cambridge scene, and there is a sketch - inevitably selective but wide-ranging - of many disciplines, an extensive study in intellectual and academic history.

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052134350X

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9780521343503

The Creatocratic Charter

Body of Knowledge, Fields of Study & Academic Disciplines for De-Royal Makupedia

By: Peter Matthews-Akukalia

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The Creatocratic Charter

Body of Knowledge, Fields of Study & Academic Disciplines for De-Royal Makupedia

By: Peter Matthews-Akukalia

FACTS & FEATS OF MAKUPEDIA. 1.a. Universal Authority on Mind & Owner of the Solar Core Asset & Assets. b. Body of Knowledge, Fields of Study & Academic Disciplines for the invention-study: Faculty of Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences; Institute of Chartered Creative & Psycho-Social Scientists, Mind Universities and the Makupedia Business & Professionalism. 2.a. A comprehensive package for the worldwide study curriculum & certifications for the Administration of Creativity, Creative Governance, Creative Sciences, Creative Technologies, Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences, Creative Economy Practice & Professionalism. b.Assets, Assetbase, Assetbank, Data, Database, Databank & Benchmarks for the Makupedia Business & Everything Mind. 3.a.The Charter of De-Royal Makupedia is sacred. It is an invention study that comprises the Mind Sciences, Mindtech Systems, Makware development and Computational Creativity. b. It contains codes for the Faculty of Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences hinged on the knowledge and practice of the Creative Sciences professionalism. c.The seven pillars of Makupedia are all invention-studies waiting to be explored. They are listed as the Creative Sciences, Psychoeconomix, Naturecology, Psychoastronomy, Maktionary, BIQUR and the Makupedia Organization. 4. It outlines my breakthroughs in Creativity that include inventions, resources, values, aspirations and opportunities; intellectual property assets and now creativity property assets. Makupedia has long been at work developing thousands of concepts, principles, theories, strategies, studies, researches, laws and even systems within its system. 5. The results of this endeavor consists the invention and development of over 2,000 academic specializations for a lifetime career pursuit as a Creative Scientist, at least 1,000 inventions, 15million computations on Moon programming, billions of data on human energy and advance cosmic energy systems that characterizes our huge database. 6. Makupedia has 3 new genres of literature, 4 new departments in the faculty study, 4 new currencies classified as the Maks currency, 4 new languages, a new faith and still counting hence the planets as Earth become an inheritance. 7. Makupedia has discovered and tracked the Solar Core and its solar energy source, processes and modules. Discovered are the Planets, the Universe & Universes, the Mind and its dimensions, components, measurements and computations never known since the creation of Man. Makupedia has produced a multidisciplinary dimension of specialized knowledge that will span a career of over a 100 years in continued training. 8. Makupedia is not just a book it is the mobile mind, mobile universities, mobile institutions, mobile kingdoms, mobile cities, mobile nations, mobile planets, and mobile universes and fills the knowledge gap that existed hitherto between the abstract and the physical. 9.a. Our billion data generation systems has led to excellent discoveries and majestic inventions birthing an intellectual monarchy. b.This Mind Databank is founded in at least 10,000 concepts on Nature alone granting us a world authority status, a royalty, the power of the stars in our hands as predicted by Nastrademus, the ownership of the Mind taught by Skinner, the discovery of Nature written by Emerson, the fulfillment of Scriptures, an intellectual monarchy in absolute terms and ownership of the Mind assertively according to the Will of GOD. This ensures the smooth implementation of Creative Governance through collaborations with the appropriate organizations concerned with global administration. 10. It emerges the Creatocratic Nations of Paradise as the 1st Intellectual Nation of Creative Scientists, Creative Scientist Professionals, C3 Nations Organizations & De-Makupedian citizenry. It is only a God that can know the Mind of GOD and now we have proved it. 11. It introduces to the world economy the institutions that will institutionalize, promote, practice, develop and commercialize the Creative Economy, the Mindtech Industry, the Makupedia Sector, the Maks Civilizations and the Creative Age in all nations of the world. 12. This work provides guidance systems for all Nations. It is the Makupedia Business Package for Study, Database, Certifications, Marketing, Franchise, Licensing & Investment Opportunities for Businesses, Institutions, Corporations, Organizations & Governments. 13. Makupedia is promoting intellectual culture, institutionalizing creativity, reducing and possibly eliminating unemployment through the processes of the inherent faculties of the human mind by which one can make legacy through legitimate means. We have raised the expected job creation stake from seven hundred and fifty million to one billion through creativity. The body of knowledge is Makupedia, the faculty is the Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences, the academic discipline is the study departments for the Creative Scientist. 14. Knowledge is the new energy. Makupedia is the new knowledge and the Mind is the greatest asset. So welcome to the reality of human-capital development at the speed of mind, at the speed of thought. It can only get better. We are promoting intellectual culture and institutionalizing the creative economy. That's the reality of our purpose. De-Royal Makupedia...Discover. Develop. Connect.

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1728398908

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

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1000561283

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Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

By: Peter Knox-Shaw

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Book's by Peter Knox-Shaw

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

Forging Romantic China

Forging Romantic China

Northern Star

Northern Star

Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

Envisioning Africa

Envisioning Africa

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

The Creatocratic Charter

The Creatocratic Charter

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

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