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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Av Walter Pater, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad, 2010
142 kr
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'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. …
Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
Av G K Chesterton, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad, 2011
120 kr
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G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont.The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The …
The Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
Av H. G. Wells, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad, 2017
93 kr
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'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.'One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he …
Nightwalking
A Nocturnal History of London
E-bok, 2015
150 kr
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London …
Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
Av H. G. Wells, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2016
82 kr
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''The man''s become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.'' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room …
Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
Av H. G. Wells, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2016
82 kr
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''The man''s become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.'' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room …
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Av Edward Bellamy, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2007
92 kr
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''No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.''Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a …
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Av Edward Bellamy, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2009
92 kr
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''No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.''Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a …
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Av Walter Pater, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2010
106 kr
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''art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments'' sake'' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. …
Looking Backward 2000-1887
Av Edward Bellamy, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad, 2009
130 kr
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'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.'Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a …
Adventures in Realism
E-bok, 2008
1686 kr
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Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 16 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished …
Lev Shestov
Philosopher of the Sleepless Night
Inbunden, 2020
1565 kr
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A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze …
Lev Shestov
Philosopher of the Sleepless Night
E-bok, 2020
499 kr
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A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles …
Lev Shestov
Philosopher of the Sleepless Night
E-bok, 2020
499 kr
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A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles …
Lev Shestov
Philosopher of the Sleepless Night
Häftad, 2022
460 kr
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A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important influence on Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Gilles Deleuze …
Adventures in Realism
Inbunden, 2007
1443 kr
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Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 16 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished …
Concise Companion to Realism
Häftad, 2010
620 kr
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A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 17 newly-commissioned essays written by a …
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Av Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby
Häftad, 2016
643 kr
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G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his …
Utopia, Ltd.: Ideologies For Social Dreaming In England 1870-1900
Historical Materialism, Volume 7
Häftad, 2009
409 kr
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This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the late-Victorian period, and to the expanding …
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Av Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby
E-bok, 2013
699 kr
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G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton''s writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his …
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Av Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby
E-bok, 2013
699 kr
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G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton''s writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his …
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Av Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby
Inbunden, 2013
2289 kr
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G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his …
Walker
On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
Häftad, 2021
166 kr
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Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?There is no such thing as …
Walker
On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
E-bok, 2020
150 kr
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Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement? There is no such thing as …
Restless Cities
Av Gregory Dart, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2020
179 kr
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The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a ''city-symphony'' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the …
Task of the Critic
Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
Av Terry Eagleton, Matthew Beaumont
E-bok, 2020
200 kr
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Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. Over the last forty years his public interventions have enlivened an …
How We Walk
Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
Inbunden, 2024
204 kr
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You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait reflect our social and political experiences as we navigate the city under capitalism. Through a series …
How We Walk
Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
E-bok, 2024
174 kr
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You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait reflect our social and political experiences as we navigate the city under capitalism. Through a series …
Nightwalking
A Nocturnal History of London
Häftad, 2025
179 kr
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In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations; the feverish ramblings of opium addict …
Task of the Critic
Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
Av Terry Eagleton, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad, 2009
525 kr
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Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. Over the last forty years his public interventions have enlivened an …
