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28 produkter
Against Nature
Av Joris-Karl Huysmans, Nicholas White
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
130 kr
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`It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic …
Against Nature
Av Joris-Karl Huysmans, Nicholas White
E-bok, 2009
117 kr
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`It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don''t care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.'' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic …
Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics
Inbunden, 2002
1811 kr
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Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views, especially those prevalent since Kant. Since the eighteenth century, and indeed since before Hegel, moral philosophers wishing to oppose the dualism of …
Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics
Häftad, 2004
950 kr
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Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views, especially those prevalent since Kant. Since the eighteenth century, and indeed since before Hegel, moral philosophers wishing to oppose the dualism of …
Scarlet Letters
Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s
Av Naomi Segal, Nicholas White
Häftad, 1997
633 kr
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Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings and wider contextualisations. As well as …
Decolonisation
The British Experience since 1945
Inbunden, 2014
2588 kr
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This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of …
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Av Nicholas White, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by …
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Inbunden, 1999
1869 kr
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The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by …
Plato on Knowledge and Reality
Häftad, 1976
245 kr
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"A complete and unified account of Plato's epistemology . . . scholarly, historically sensitive, and philosophically sophisticated. Above all it is sensible. . . . White's strength is that he places Plato's preoccupation in careful historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic …
Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Av Anthony Webster, Nicholas White
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and …
Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Av Anthony Webster, Nicholas White
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and …
Decolonisation
The British Experience since 1945
E-bok, 2014
731 kr
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This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of …
Decolonisation
The British Experience since 1945
E-bok, 2014
731 kr
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This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of …
Scarlet Letters
Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s
Av Nicholas White, Naomi Segal
E-bok, 1997
887 kr
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Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings and wider contextualisations. As well as …
Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Av Nicholas White, Anthony Webster
E-bok, 2019
820 kr
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Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and …
Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Av Nicholas White, Anthony Webster
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and …
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War
E-bok, 2017
935 kr
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"One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Naquet of 1884. French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the …
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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"One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Naquet of 1884. French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the …
Decolonisation
The British Experience since 1945
Häftad, 2013
652 kr
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This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of …
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War
Inbunden, 2013
1750 kr
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This book analyses the ways in which divorce informed the development of French fiction until the First World War, arguing that in France the divorce question was intimately related to the rhythm of revolution.
After Intimacy
The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789
Av Karl Leydecker, Nicholas White
Häftad, 2007
981 kr
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Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the …
Currencies
Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Sarah Capitanio, Lisa Downing m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
800 kr
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The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and literary currencies in nineteenth-century France. Essays focus on the sometimes surprising treatment …
