The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature write by Yvonne Bezrucka. This book was released on 2018-06-11. The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a ‘Northern’ aesthetics to challenge the European yoke, this book explores the roots of British Romanticism and a newly created past. Literature, the arts, architecture, and gardening all contributed to the creation of this national, ‘enlightened’, Northern cultural environment, with its emphasis on a home-grown legal tradition, on a heroic Celtic past, and on the imagined democracy of King Arthur and his Roundtable of Knights as a prophetic precursor of Constitutional Monarchy. Set against the European Grand Tour, the British turned to the Domestic, Picturesque Anti-Grand-Tour, and alongside a classical literary heritage championed British authors and British empiricism, against continental religion that sanctioned an authoritarian politics that the Gothic Novel mocks. However, if empiricism and common law were vital to this emerging tradition, so too was the other driving force of Britain’s medieval inheritance, the fantasy world of mythic heroes and a celebration of what would come to be known as the ‘fairy way of writing’.
Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives
Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives write by Chiara Battisti. This book was released on 2019-12-02. Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The interdisciplinary series “Law & Literature” takes a systematic look at the correlation between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelation between two cultural spheres which are not only at the basis of Western Culture and Society, but share in a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a trend in current inter- and transdisciplinary research which has recently shown rapid growth both in Europe and the United States.
Nordic Terrors
Nordic Terrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Terrors write by Robert William Rix. This book was released on 2024-10-01. Nordic Terrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers exploring Britain’s northern heritage. In Gothic publications, Nordic superstition sometimes parallels the representations of Catholicism, allowing writers to gloat at its phantasms and delusions. Thus, runic spells, incantations, and necromantic communications (of which Norse tradition afforded many examples) could replace practices usually assigned to Catholic superstition. Yet Nordic lore did more than merely supplant hackneyed Gothic formulas; it presented readers with an alternative conception of ‘Otherness’. Nordic texts—chiefly based on the Edda and the supernatural Scandinavian ballad tradition—were seen as pre-Christian beliefs of the Gothic (i.e., Germanic) peoples, including the Anglo-Saxons. The book traces the development of this Nordic Gothic, situating it within wider literary, historical, political, and cultural contexts.
Shusterman’s Somaesthetics
Shusterman’s Somaesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shusterman’s Somaesthetics write by . This book was released on 2022-04-19. Shusterman’s Somaesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shusterman’s Somaesthetics is a wide-ranging collection of penetrating essays by twelve scholars examining in rich detail the many dimensions of philosopher Richard Shusterman’s pragmatism and somaesthetics, complemented by his own chapter of responses to these scholars
Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature
Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature write by Chiara Battisti. This book was released on 2022-04-04. Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have traditionally been taught to term ‘islands.’ It stages a conversation on the very idea of ‘island-ness’, thus contributing to a new field of research at the crossroads of law, geography, literature, urban planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies. The contributions to this volume discuss the notion of island-ness as a device triggering the imagination, triggering narratives and representations in different creative fields; they explore the interactions between legal, socio-political, and fictional approaches to remoteness and the ‘state of insularity,’ policy responses to both remoteness and boundaries on different scales, and the insular legal framing of geographical remoteness. The product of a cross-disciplinary exchange on islands, this edited volume will be of great interest to those working in the fields of Island Studies, as well as literary studies scholars, geographers, and legal scholars.
