Author: Carly S. Woods File Type: pdf Spanning a historical period that begins with womens exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational intercollegiate competitions, Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as women sought to access the fruits of higher education in the United States and United Kingdom. Despite various obstacles, women transformed forests, parlors, dining rooms, ocean liners, classrooms, auditoriums, and prisons into vibrant spaces for ritual argument. There, they not only learned to speak eloquently and argue persuasively but also used debate to establish a legacy, explore difference, engage in intercultural encounter, and articulate themselves as citizens. These debaters engaged with the issues of the day, often performing, questioning, and occasionally refining norms of gender, race, class, and nation. In tracing their involvement in an activity at the heart of civic culture, Woods demonstrates that debating women have much to teach us about the ongoing potential for debate to move arguments, ideas, and people to new spaces. **Review Debating Women is essential reading! In forests and parlors, classrooms and dining rooms, ocean liners and auditoriums, intrepid women in the United States and the United Kingdom made places to develop and practice the skills of debate. Packed with fascinating stories, Woodss book unearths a dynamic tradition and invites contemporary responses to its legacy. ANGELA G. RAY, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, and author of The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States About the Author CARLY S. WOODS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and affiliate faculty in the Department of Womens Studies at the University of Maryland.

Author: Vladimir Jankelevitch File Type: pdf Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankelevitchs Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuzes Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergsons experiential and religious perspectives. Here Jankelevitch covers all aspects of Bergsons thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and duration, memory, evolution, simplicity, love, and joy. A friend of Bergsons, Jankelevitch first published this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergsons later works. This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an editors introduction, which contextualizes and outlines Jankelevitchs reading of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by Jankelevitch, and Bergsons letters to Jankelevitch. **Review There is no question that Vladimir Jankelevitchs Henri Bergson is one of the most important books written on Bergson. Equally, there is no question that Deleuzes book on Bergson is one of most important. However, what distinguishes the two, and what makes Jankelevitchs book really valuable are the three chapters he added in 1959. These three chapters tell us precisely how to understand Bergsons ethics (especially the chapter on Bergson and Judaism), and they contain the seeds of Jankelevitchs own later work. Having such an accurate and scholarly English translation is great. The Introduction, by Alexandre Lefebvre, who is one of our most important Anglophone commentators on Bergson, is illuminating. (Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University) Jankelevitchs intransigent Bergsonism his faith in intuition and his distrust in contextualization produced his marvelous Henri Bergson. (Giuseppe Bianco H-France, H-Net Reviews** 2016-04-01) About the Author Vladimir Jankelevitch (1903-1985) held the chair in moral philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy and music. Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of Bergson, Politics, and Religion, also published by Duke University Press. Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including The Helmholtz Curves Tracing Lost Time, by Henning Schmidgen.

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Author: Leah Price File Type: pdf The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of the rise of the novel. Covering British novelists from Richardson to George Eliot, this study asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, and how editors reproduction of old texts has shaped authors production of new ones. This provocative book promises to change the way we think about the future of intellectual property, and the role that anthologies play in the classroom.ReviewWhere other studies have examined the history of the novel in relation to romance, to the rise of the novel or to emergent forms of subjectivity...Leah Price looks at novels in relation to the history of the book, and to the proliferation of anthologies in particular. It is a refreshing change...Her book is rich in insights. London Review of BooksFascinating and intricate... Victorians Institute JournalDazzlingly inventive. Review of English StudiesPrice...brings together book history and narrative theory in subtle ways to reach sometimes surprisingly original and engaging conclusions about the effects anthologizers, abridgers, and republishers have had on the production and form of naratives, particularly womens fiction....The book is unusually well informed by contemporaneous as well as contemporary reviews and criticism. Equally refreshing is the thoughtfulness and frequent wry duality of Prices observations....Essential for any self-respecting academic library... ChoiceGroundbreaking...utterly brillliant...material history at its best. Wordsworth CircleLeah Prices insightful and wide-range study of the close and complex relationships between the anthology and the rise of the novel is essentially a study of quotation in and quotation of the novel....One of the many strengths of this ambitious book is that Price demonstrates how the practice of anthologising depends on several paradoxes of exclusion and inclusion, both social and literary....Price charts a significant shift in attitudes regarding the ways of reading and writing embodied in anthologies....Both the sweep of her argument and the quality of her particular readings make this a very important book about books and their readers. SHARP NewsRichly researched, wonderfully provocative book. Nineteenth-Century LiteratureMeticulous, thoughtful, and original. Eighteenth Century Studies ReviewWhere other studies have examined the history of the novel in relation to romance, to the rise of the novel or to emergent forms of subjectivity...Leah Price looks at novels in relation to the history of the book, and to the proliferation of anthologies in particular. It is a refreshing change...Her book is rich in insights. London Review of BooksFascinating and intricate... Victorians Institute JournalDazzlingly inventive. Review of English StudiesPrice...brings together book history and narrative theory in subtle ways to reach sometimes surprisingly original and engaging conclusions about the effects anthologizers, abridgers, and republishers have had on the production and form of naratives, particularly womens fiction....The book is unusually well informed by contemporaneous as well as contemporary reviews and criticism. Equally refreshing is the thoughtfulness and frequent wry duality of Prices observations....Essential for any self-respecting academic library... ChoiceGroundbreaking...utterly brillliant...material history at its best. Wordsworth CircleLeah Prices insightful and wide-range study of the close and complex relationships between the anthology and the rise of the novel is essentially a study of quotation in and quotation of the novel....One of the many strengths of this ambitious book is that Price demonstrates how the practice of anthologising depends on several paradoxes of exclusion and inclusion, both social and literary....Price charts a significant shift in attitudes regarding the ways of reading and writing embodied in anthologies....Both the sweep of her argument and the quality of her particular readings make this a very important book about books and their readers. SHARP NewsRichly researched, wonderfully provocative book. Nineteenth-Century LiteratureMeticulous, thoughtful, and original. Eighteenth Century Studies