Mind-forg'd Manacles
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780140124781 |
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Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780140124781 |
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Yatron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Chris Aslan |
Publisher | : Lion Fiction |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782642560 |
'Imaginative, authentic, and evocative.'- Gerard Kelly, author There is a dark presence in Phin's life. His step-father is a drunk and his malevolence poisons their home. One evening the violence gets out of control and as Phin's mother drags his broken body away, she can only think of one place to take him: to the local healer. But this healer deals in more than medicinal remedies and at her insistence he calls on the spirits to ensure Phin is never harmed again. However, his words are more than a call, they are invitation - one that the spirits welcome as a legion descend and take root within Phin. Phin awakens to discover he is no longer in control of his mind or his body, and something is certainly inhabiting his soul. He possesses super-human strength and immediately takes revenge on his step-father. This would have sated Phin, but the spirits have other ideas - they drive him into the wilderness and all who go to him quickly rue the day. As he terrorises the village, soldiers come to remove him - but how do you restrain a man who can break the strongest of manacles. And is there any hope for one who has been overcome by darkness?
Author | : David Bindman |
Publisher | : Hayward Gallery Publishing |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
For William Blake, the idea of slavery was fundamental to his art and writing. Containing over 60 reproductions from Blake's illuminated books, watercolours and engravings, this book includes essays by curator and leading Blake scholar David Bindman, and novelist and literary critic Darryl Pinckney.
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joan Baum |
Publisher | : Archon Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Most simply, the Romantic poets came to recognize political solutions as inevitable failures, and political poetry as not poetry at all, but versified propaganda that does not endure beyond timely or contemporary events and that cannot explore motives of deeper significance about the human condition. Meanwhile, radicals viewed concern for black slaves as a fanciful distraction obfuscating wage slavery, the oppression of the English working class, and the hellish life of the laboring masses during the Industrial Revolution. Following the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807) the plight of the fettered African slaves in the West Indies faded into the larger concern over the "enslaved" masses in England.
Author | : Richard Tarnas |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2011-10-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307804526 |
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
This book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession.
Author | : Jonathan Andrews |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2001-11-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520927858 |
As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715–1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.