Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1

Ghosts: A Social History, vol 1
Author: Owen Davies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040233570

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Oliver's Ghost

Oliver's Ghost
Author: Warren Hussey Bouton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Ghost stories, American
ISBN: 9780970055538

Sarah and Ben travel to Nantucket for a summer visit with their Grandparents but their plans for a quiet vacation take a spooky turn when their new friend, Oliver, turns out to be a ghost.

Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England

Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Su Fang Ng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007-01-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139463101

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions of political community. They used family metaphors to debate the limits of political authority, rethink gender roles, and imagine community in a period of social and political upheaval. While critical attention has focused on how the common analogy linking father and king, family and state, bolstered royal and paternal claims to authority and obedience, its meaning was in fact intensely contested. In this wide-ranging study, Su Fang Ng analyses the language and metaphors used to describe the relationship between politics and the family in both literary and political writings and offers a fresh perspective on how seventeenth-century literature reflected as well as influenced political thought.

The Age of Projects

The Age of Projects
Author: Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2008-08-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442692995

"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.

Alibis

Alibis
Author: André Aciman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1429995068

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

There's a Ghost in this House

There's a Ghost in this House
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780008298357

A captivating new picture book with interactive transparent pages, from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers. Hello, come in. Maybe you can help me? A young girl lives in a haunted house, but has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? She'd love to know! Step inside and turn the transparent pages to help her on an entertaining ghost hunt, from behind the sofa, right up to the attic. With lots of friendly ghost surprises and incredible mixed media illustrations, this unique and funny book will entertain young readers over and over again!

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Wells, Edgar H. & Co
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1208
Release: 1923
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN: