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Author : George M. Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521888622
A comprehensive overview of the life and times of Thomas More, including in-depth studies of his major written works.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author : Richard Marius
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307828057
Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks to restore the man. More’s life spanned a tumultuous period in Western history. He was born in 1478 into a society still medieval in its customs and laws. But by the time of his death in 1535 England was already shaken to its depths by the powerful and unsettling ideas of the Renaissance. Marius draws upon important recent research and his profound knowledge of More’s own voluminous writing to make a coherent whole of the life and work of the immensely complex man who was both a product of the times and a singular figure in them. He gives us More the boy—his London childhood, he deep respect for his father, who rose from a tradesman’s background to become a judge of the highest court in the land (a “council of fathers” was to rule More’s kingdom of Utopia) . . . More the youth—sent at about age twelve to serve in the household of the powerful and political Bishop Morton, later struggling to choose between the priesthood and the lures of secular life: marriage and a career in the great world… More the Londoner, the city man—lawyer, graduate of the Inns of Court, member of the rising middle class with its drive for an achievement and position. We see More the humanist man of letter as Marius treats in full his friendship with Erasmus; his now controversial History of Richard III, from which Shakespeare’s Richard derives; and the originals and meanings of his most famous work, Utopia. More the family man is reveal in his relationship with his father, his two wives, and his children as far more complex than the sanctified image of legend. Marius explore More’s public career as Lord Chancellor, as champion of the Catholic church, and finally as martyr to the old faith. He shows us a man who, although he hated and feared tyrants, always believes that authority as a source of order was necessary to the public good—a man who as royal councilor and Lord Chancellor upheld his king until the very moment when, in response to Henry’s final tyranny, he chose “to die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.” Marius also demonstrates that it was the centuries-old authority of the Catholic Church that More revered; that he was as suspicious of paper supremacy as of any tyranny. The man Marius ultimately reveals is one more passionate and driven (in his family life, his convictions, his persecution of heretics) than the serene hero of A Man For All Seasons. But he is also a man possessed of such wit, integrity and charm that he was loved not only by his family but by almost everyone who knew him. It is the special triumph of this biography that with its rare combination of impeccable scholarship and narrative power, we are brought into the presence of a whole person with all his flaws and virtues, and that by the time More meets his death, he has become familiar and important to us not merely as a historical figure but also as a human being.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576
Table of contents
Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769747
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Author : George M. Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139828482
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers, whilst also presenting, and in many areas extending, the most important modern scholarship on him.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521653703
Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author : Margaret M. McGuinness,Thomas F. Rzeznik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472654
Provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to understanding the complexity and diversity of the American Catholic experience.
Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107167742
Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.
Author : Terence Cuneo,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521012082
Reid in context / Alexander Broadie -- Thomas Reid and the culture of science / Paul Wood -- Reid on common sense / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Reid's theory of perception / James Van Cleve / Reid's reply to the skeptic / John Greco -- Nativism and the nature of thought in Reid's account of the external world / Lorne Falkenstein -- Reid and the social operations of mind / C.A.J. Coady -- Reid on memory and the identity of persons / René Van Woudenberg -- Thomas Reid's theory of freedom and responsibility / William L. Rowe -- Reid's moral philosophy / Terence Cueno -- Reid's philosophy of art / Peter Kivy -- Reid's philosophy of religion / Dale Tuggy -- Reid's influence in Britain, Germany, France, and America / Benjamin W. Redekop
Author : A. D. Cousins,Damian Grace
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838642153
Latin lives of Thomas More / Germain Marc'hadour -- Modern biographies of Sir Thomas More / Michael Ackland -- More's letters and "The comfort of the truth" / Alison V. Scott -- Humanism, female education, and myth : Erasmus, Vives, and More's To Candidus / A.D. Cousins -- Virtue, transformation, and exemplarity in The Lyfe of Johan Picus / L.E. Semmler -- Inhabiting time : Sir Thomas More's Historia Richardi Tertii / Arthur F. Kinney -- The epigrams of More and Erasmus : a literary diptych / Clarence H. Miller -- Erasmus and More : exploring vocations / Bruce Mansfield -- "Civitas philosophica" : ideas and community in Thomas More / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Utopia / Damian Grace -- The reluctant champion : More's Responsio ad Lutherum and Letter to Bugenhagen / Alistair Fox -- "The field is won" : an introduction to the Tower works / Seymour Baker House.
Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521896948
A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.
Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521437695
Introduction 1 AquinasÆs philosophy in its historical setting Jan A. Aertsen 2 Aristotle and Aquinas Joseph Owens 3 Aquinas and Islamic and Jewish thinkers David B. Burrell 4 Metaphysics John F. Wippel 5 Philosophy of mind Norman Kretzmann 6 Theory of knowledge Scott MacDonald 7 Ethics Ralph McInerny 8 Law and politics Paul E. Sigmund 9 Theology and philosophy Mark D. Jordan 10 Biblical commentary and philosophy Eleonore Stump
Author : Frank Shuffelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828000
This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native Americans, his attitude to race and slavery, as well as his interests in science, architecture, religion and education. Contributors include leading literary scholars and historians; the essays offer up to date overviews of his many interests, his friendships and his legacy. Together, they reveal his importance in the cultural and political life of early America. At the same time these original essays speak to abiding modern concerns about American culture and Jefferson's place in it. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of Jefferson, and is designed for use by students of American literature and American history.
Author : Ian Ker,Terrence Merrigan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139828147
John Henry Newman (1801–90) was a major figure in nineteenth-century religious history. He was one of the major protagonists of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement within the Church of England whose influence continues to be felt within Anglicanism. A high-profile convert to Catholicism, he was an important commentator on Vatican I and is often called 'the Father' of the Second Vatican Council. Newman's thinking highlights and anticipates the central themes of modern theology including hermeneutics, the importance of historical-critical research, the relationship between theology and literature, and the reinterpretation of the nature of faith. His work is characterised by two elements that have come especially to the fore in post-modern theology, namely, the importance of the religious imagination and the fiduciary character of all knowledge. This Companion fills a need for an accessible, comprehensive and systematic presentation of the major themes in Newman's work.
