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Louis XIV and the Age of the Enlightenment - Neil R. Johnson - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Louis XIV and the Age of the Enlightenment

DKK 480.00

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Louis de Fontanes - Norbert Savariau - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Fontanes: poete, journaliste, politicien, educateur. A l'aube du dix-neuvieme siecle, Louis de Fontanes est reconnu par ses contemporains comme un ecrivain de premier ordre. Sa poesie fait epoque; on l'admire comme orateur; personne ne l'egale comme critique; ses jugements font autorite, sa maniere d'ecrire et de parler en public est erigee en modele. Ainsi exposer ce qu'ont ete pour Fontanes la poesie et la fonction du poete, l'eloquence et le role de l'orateur ou celui du journaliste, c'est faire revivre a la fois un litterateur important et tout une culture rhetorique et scolaire. L'auteur fait le bilan de l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de poete, de journaliste, de professeur et d'orateur qu'a produit Fontanes avant d'acceder aux plus hautes responsabilites. Il retrace ce qu'a mene le jeune collegien des Oratoriens de Niort, poete desargente, ami des Lumieres et admirateur des philosophes, a travers les vicissitudes de la Revolution a se faire legislateur, adjoint de Bonaparte et un des architectes du programme d'enseignement national qui vit le jour aux premieres annees du dix-neuvieme siecle. En la compagnie de Fontanes on peut apercevoir ce qu'etaient les belles-lettres a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle, ressentir le choc de la Revolution et discerner comment s'est construite la 'reaction' contre les miseres de l'an II et de la Terreur. Le jacobinisme rejete, on accepte le progres scientifique des Lumieres, tout en valorisant les lettres et les arts, l'Antiquite de la siecle de Louis XIV, pour conjuguer la modernite et l'heritage de l'Ancien Regime. Pour tracer le chemin tortueux des belles-lettres a l'epreuve de la liberte, Louis de Fontanes - poete des Lumieres, journaliste engage de la Revolution, proscrit et exil du Directoire, homme politique et critique acerbe du Consulat - est un guide sans pair.

DKK 832.00

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Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome - Nathaniel K. Gilmore - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome argues that the eighteenth-century French author Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) developed a novel, comprehensive account of Roman history that framed his new political science and grounded his political teachings.

DKK 744.00

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Contested Vision: Captivity, Creativity, and Paris Prisons, 1793-1894 - Gonzalo J. Sanchez - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

As authorities imposed increasing invisibility on detainees, artists such as Hubert Robert, Jacques-Louis David, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Armand Désiré Gautier, Maximilien Luce, and Théophile Steinlen, among others, spent time behind bars grappling with representational strategies that almost always required conjoining words and images.

DKK 1189.00

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The Moral Tale in France and Germany - Katherine Astbury - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Realism in terms of plot, structure, characterisation and narration in the moral tale all undergo transformation as the century progresses, primarily because many of the leading literary figures of the period wrote moral tales, from Diderot to Wieland, Louis-Sébastien Mercier to Sophie von La Roche.

DKK 850.00

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The Films of Michael Mann - Deryck Swan - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Through his investigation of Mann's filmography and the personality that flowsthrough it, author Deryck Swan provides the reader with accessible and new waysof thinking about his films to date, including, amongst myriad other things,references to painter Morris Louis, desert modernism, West Coastprison culture, Chicago Mayor Richard M.

DKK 347.00

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Voltaire et le Grand Siecle - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sait-on bien quel historien singulier ce fut que l'auteur du Siecle de Louis XIV? Voltaire a si peu deguise son parti pris qu'on finirait par ne plus apercevoir ce qu'a d'insolite sa methode. 'Quiconque pense, ecrit-il dans l'introduction du Siecle, et ce qui est encore plus rare, quiconque a du gout ne compte que quatre siecles dans l'histoire du monde.' Selectionner ainsi son objet, c'est postuler ce qu'il faudra prouver, c'est revendiquer a priori une faculte de gout dont l'histoire est tenue de manifester la superiorite. L'historien n'a donc pas a expliquer, il doit peindre, c'est le mot meme de Voltaire. Il parait superflu de remonter aux causes. Les faits parlent assez clairement: le Grand Siecle compte dans l'histoire universelle par la Revolution qu'il y produit, l'avenement d'une civilisation du gout, jugee telle, il est vrai, d'apres des criteres qu'il se pourrait que Voltaire eut empruntes a l'epoque en cause. C'est afin de celebrer le 250e anniversaire de ce qui fut un evenement pour les contemporains, la publication du Siecle de Louis XIV, que le Centre d'etude de la langue et de la litterature francaises des dix-septieme et dix-huitieme siecles de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne organisa le colloque 'Voltaire et le Grand Siecle'. Le volume present rassemble vingt-neuf etudes traitant de la methode de l'historien, des lecons de cette histoire nouvelle, de la 'philosophie' que Voltaire tire de l'observation minutieuse du materiau historique, ainsi que de la politique religieuse de Louis XIV. Voltaire voit des taches sur la gloire du Roi-Soleil.

DKK 750.00

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Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology - Miri Freud Kandel - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

It argues that, despite its particularities and limitations, his approach can provide a powerful model for contemporary religious seekers in the context of a growing impetus away from established, denominationally bound forms of religion.

DKK 371.00

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Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future - Peter (university Of Missouri St Louis) Swirski - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.

DKK 302.00

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La Place Louis XV from the Old Regime to the Revolution - Victoria Thompson - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book tells the story of its design, construction, use, and political symbolism, to argue that this royal square was a contested space, where the intended celebration of monarchical power was ridiculed, challenged, and eventually displaced by the emerging authority of the people of Paris.

DKK 901.00

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Haiti for the Haitians - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti’s nineteenth-century has yet to receive its due, this despite independent Haiti’s vital importance as the first nation to permanently ban slavery and its ongoing struggle for sovereignty in the Atlantic World. Louis-Joseph Janvier (1855–1911) is one of the foremost Haitian intellectuals and diplomats of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His prolific oeuvre offered enduring challenges to racist slanders of Haiti and critiques of the global inequalities that arose from European colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through his writings, Janvier influenced the international debates about slavery, race, nation, and empire that shaped his era and, in many ways, remain unresolved today. Arguably his most powerful work, Haiti for the Haitians (1884) provides a searing critique of European and U.S. imperialism, predatory finance capitalism, and Haiti’s domestic politics. It offers his vision of Haiti’s future expressed through a remarkable phrase: Haiti for the Haitians. Haiti for the Haitians is the first major English translation of Janvier. Accompanied by an introduction, annotations, and an interdisciplinary collection of critical essays, this volume offers unprecedented access to this vital Haitian thinker and an important contribution to the scholarship on Haiti’s nineteenth century.

DKK 337.00

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Useless Activity - Christopher Webb - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work – and what 'worked' in terms of literature – were being radically scrutinised andreassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s British avant-garde: Eva Figes (1932–2012), B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), and Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). The book argues that these writers’ preoccupations with concepts related to work, such as leisure, debt, and various forms of neglected labour like housework, allow us to rethink the British avant-garde's relation to realism while posing broader questions about the production and value of post-war literary avant-gardism more generally. Useless Activity proposes that only with an understanding of the British avant-garde’s engagement with the idea of work and its various corollaries can we appreciate these writers' move away from certain forms of literary realism and their contribution to the development of the modern British novel during the mid-twentieth century.