Romantic Geographies

Author : Amanda Gilroy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : British
ISBN : 071905785X

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This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances.All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the priveleged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.

Author : A. Byrne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137311320

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Geographies of the Romantic North by A. Byrne Pdf

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299296834

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Romantic Geography by Yi-Fu Tuan Pdf

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature

Author : Christian Lenz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839434413

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Geographies of Love by Christian Lenz Pdf

»Geographies of Love« is the first study to explore the cultural lifeworlds of British, Australian and Indian chick- and ladlit characters. Offering unique case studies including »Bridget Jones's Diary«, »About a Boy« and »Almost Single«, the book explores how women and men search for love and how they commit themselves to romances in specific spaces and places: the home and the office as well as shops, clubs and bars. This cross-disciplinary study provides scholars, students and keen readers with multiple points of access and easily-relatable situations. It applies the complex phenomenon of cultural geographies within the field of literary studies and sheds new light on a most passionate feeling.

Author : Colin Smethurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Exoticism in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015038182831

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Author : M. Wiley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230374263

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Romantic Geography by M. Wiley Pdf

Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose. It shows that eighteenth-century social and political interest groups contested spaces through maps, geographical commentaries and travel literature; and that by configuring 'utopian' landscapes Wordsworth himself participated in major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England.

Author : Roger Lee,David M. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444355505

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Geographies and Moralities by Roger Lee,David M. Smith Pdf

This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original research. Deals with controversial issues, such as problems of globalization, European integration, human rights in Nigeria, territorial conflict in Israel, and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa. The editors are well-published leading international authorities. The contributors are drawn from Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel, South Africa, the UK and the US.

Author : Sarah L. Holloway,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134622559

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Children's Geographies by Sarah L. Holloway,Gill Valentine Pdf

Children's Geographies is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, the book analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning. The diverse case studies range from an historical analysis of gender relationss in nineteenth century North American playgrounds through to children's experiences of after school care in contemporary Britain, to street cultures amongst homeless children in Indonesia at the end of the twentieth century. Threaded through this empirical diversity, is a common engagement with current debates about the nature of childhood. The individual chapters draw on contemporary sociological understandings of children's competence as social actors. In so doing they not only illustrate the importance of such an approach to our understandings of children's geographies, they also contribute to current debates about spatiality in the social studies of childhood.

Author : Duncan S. Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621895114

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Lovescapes, Mapping the Geography of Love by Duncan S. Ferguson Pdf

Lovescapes introduces the reader to the various meanings and manifestations of love and its many cognates such as compassion, caring, altruism, empathy, and forgiveness. It addresses how love and compassion have been understood in history and the religions of the world. It goes on to explore the ways that our environments and heredity influence our capacity to love and suggests ways to cultivate love and compassion in one's life. The book shows how the values of love and compassion are integral to finding humane solutions to the daunting problems we face as individuals, as a human family, and as an earth community--a world in crisis. Lovescapes has the following features: -Describing how love is the essence of the divine, and therefore the ground of reality -Understanding the meaning of love and its place in our lives -Learning how love and compassion have been understood across history, culture, and tradition -Gaining insight about how to increase our capacity to love and show compassion -Discerning how love and compassion can be applied in all aspects of our lives, in the regions where we live, and in our global setting.

Author : Glenda Burgess
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767929134

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The Geography of Love by Glenda Burgess Pdf

“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient happiness or go down trying.” Falling in love is arguably the greatest risk and leap of faith any of us take. There’s no guarantee for future happiness, no protection from the ugly scars of the past, no shield from tragedy--this powerful memoir reminds us why we bother. At a lakeside café in the summer of 1988, 31-year-old Glenda Burgess is sitting across from 44-year-old Kenneth Grunzweig and falling in love. Then Ken confesses that he has already been widowed twice, under harrowing circumstances. This tragic past, the age difference, Ken’s emotionally scarred teenage daughter--all might be enough to send anyone running, but Glenda believed in her instincts, believed more than anything that this lovely, generous man would shape her life. And Ken, who with his heartbreaking losses had long said that he’d given up on love, came to share a sense of their romantic destiny. The two embark on the sort of love affair that many of us don’t believe exist anymore--a grand romance that buoys them through the birth of two kids and fifteen magical years of marriage until tragedy strikes again in the form of a shadowy spot on Ken’s lung. The journey that follows will test their resilience and strengthen their devotion. The Geography of Love is a book about believing in first instincts and second chances. It is a poignant exploration of the depths of the human heart and our ability to love and to trust no matter the obstacles. It is a reminder that “real” life is always richer, stranger, and more extraordinary than fiction. It is the most moving love story you’ll read this year.

Author : Maria Schoina
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754662926

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Romantic 'Anglo-Italians' by Maria Schoina Pdf

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point of departure, as she argues that the emergence and mission of what Mary Shelley termed the 'Anglo-Italian' is inextricably linked to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions of the age: the forging of the British identity in the midst of an expanding empire, the rise of the English middle class and the establishment of a competitive print culture, and the envisioning, by a group of male and female Romantic liberal intellectuals, of social and political reform.Schoina's emphasis on the political implications of the British Romantics' hyphenated self-representation results in fresh readings of the Pisan Circle's Italianate writings that move them away from interpretations focused on a purely aesthetic or poetic attachment to Italy to uncover their complex ideological underpinnings.

Author : A. Byrne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137311320

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Geographies of the Romantic North by A. Byrne Pdf

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.

Author : Katie Garner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137597120

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Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend by Katie Garner Pdf

This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women’s place in literary history.

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199660896

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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.

Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub,Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1444315668

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Geography and Ethnography by Kurt A. Raaflaub,Richard J. A. Talbert Pdf

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, whohave analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviewsof a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity throughto the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies aroundthe globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from theGreeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials