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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Author/editor: Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys, Shino Konishi
Year published: 2013
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of...
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law: The Legacy of Modernism
Author/editor: Desmond Manderson
Year published: 2012
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf,...
Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn
Author/editor: Iain McCalman, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2010
Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about...
Art and the Human Adventure: André Malraux’s Theory of Art
Author/editor: Derek Allan
Year published: 2009
André Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to traditional explanations of the nature and purpose of art developed by post-Enlightenment aesthetics. For...
Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life
Author/editor: Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2008
A survey of Feargus O'Connor's career written for a general and academic audience. At the height of his popularity as a leader of the Chartists' campaign for democratic reform in Britain, O'Connor enjoyed the support of millions of working people, but his role in the history of British radical...
Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution
Author/editor: Raelene Frances
Year published: 2007
From gun-toting Pansy Arlington, whose Palace of Pleasure provided years of dangerous excitement to colonial men on the Western Australian goldfields, to Puang Thong Simaplee, a young woman from Thailand arrested in a Surry Hills brothel only to die in Villawood Detention Centre before she could be...
Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform
Author/editor: Michael T. Davis, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2007
In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels, pornographers and rogue preachers where...
Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
Author/editor: Desmond Manderson
Year published: 2006
Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law links the controversial ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to the common law legal tradition that has recently invigorated the idea of "the duty of care." Desmond Manderson argues that the ethicist and lawyer struggle with the same basic questions of why...
Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author/editor: Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
Year published: 2004
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own...
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
Author/editor: Owen R. Ashton, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2002
This study of six Chartist Leaders portrays movements for democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy middle classes in campaigns for working-class rights. The comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of dissent, the nature of class and of radicalism in...
