Описание: A collection of reports and correspondence compiled by the Anti-Slavery Society concerning the British government`s investigation into evasion of the anti-slavery laws in 1837, published in 1842. It highlights the severe exploitation of South Asian labourers duped into accepting `contracts` for work in Mauritius and British Guiana.
Автор: Carlos Название: A Short History of British India ISBN: 1107621836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107621831 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2915 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1889 book is a surprisingly sensitive description of India before and during British rule. It is useful as a record of the colonial mindset near the turn of the twentieth century, and will be of value to anyone interested in the history of the British Empire and historical British attitudes to rule.
In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare's influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imitating a play by Shakespeare or merely quoting his lines, a Victorian poet may embrace more elusive elements of rhetoric and style, adapting them to his or her own ends.
Shaw argues that the most Shakespearean attribute of the Victorian poets is not their addiction to any particular trope or figure of speech but their reticence, the classical restraint of their great monologues, and their sudden descent from grandeur to simplicity. He explores such topics as man-made law versus natural right, Stoic fatalism versus self-reliance, and the sanity of lunatics, lovers, and poets versus the madness of commonplace minds.
Описание: This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride.
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