Author: Norman S. Poser File Type: pdf In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britains most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade, modernized commercial law in ways that helped establish Britain as the worlds leading industrial and trading nation, and his vigorous opposition to the American colonists stoked Revolutionary fires. Although his father and brother were Jacobite rebels loyal to the deposed King James II, Mansfield was able to rise through English society to become a member of its ruling aristocracy and a confidential advisor to two kings. Poser sets Mansfields rulings in historical context while delving into Mansfields circle, which included poets (Alexander Pope described him as his countrys pride), artists, actors, clergymen, noblemen and women, and politicians. Still celebrated for his application of common sense and moral values to the formal and complicated English common law system, Mansfield brought a practical and humanistic approach to the law. His decisions continue to influence the legal systems of Canada, Britain, and the United States to an extent unmatched by any judge of the past. An illuminating account of one of the greatest legal minds, Lord Mansfield presents a vibrant look at Britains Age of Reason through one of its central figures. **

Author: Sophie Read File Type: pdf The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase this is my body exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive generations. To illustrate this, she examines in detail the work of Southwell, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Milton, who between them represent a broad range of doctrinal and confessional positions, from the Jesuit Southwell to Miltons heterodox Puritanism. Individually, each chapter examines how Eucharistic ideas are expressed through a particular rhetorical trope together, they illuminate the continued importance of the Eucharists transformation well into the seventeenth century - not simply as a matter of doctrine, but as a rhetorical and poetic mode.**

Author: Douglas Adams File Type: pdf When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. Arthur Dents odyssey through space continues as he takes a trip to the end of time itself in search of a decent meal, and accidentally alters the future of the entire human race . . . Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability. Among Arthurs motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and expert contributer to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee whos gone native (her name is Trillian now) and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally). Will they make it? The answer hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhikers Guide deleted the term Future Perfect from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!From Library JournalWarning! This second volume in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is definitely not a standalone book. Enjoying, or even understanding, the continuing adventures of Earthling Arthur Dent, his strange pal Ford Prefect, and the very, very odd Zaphod Beeblebrox requires previous study and preparation. Confusion and possible insanity awaits the poor soul who tries to figure out the second title without having read the first. Arthur and Ford, having survived the destruction of Earth by surreptitiously hitching a ride on a Vogon constructor ship, have been kicked off that ship by its commander. Now they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship commanded by Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Imperial Galactic Government and full-time thief. Narrated by Adams, this production is a treat for fans of the late author and others who enjoy British comedy. Be sure to buy all five parts of the Hitchhiker series or your patrons will storm your office. One caveat this audiobook will need to be repackaged for library circulation.Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. ReviewDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist.*Washington Post Book WorldWhats such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamss sardonically silly eyes.Detroit Free Press*

Author: Gerald Gillespie File Type: pdf Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce grew into adulthood during the advent of modernism. They still command our interest as witnesses of an age that brought both the excitement of constant innovation in the arts and technology and, with the eruption of World War I, the challenge of the greatest prolonged crisis for Western civilization since the French Revolution. The original version of Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context strove to show how a kindred encyclopedic drive and sacramental sense informed their responses to the epochal trauma, yielding three distinct and monumental visions of the human estate by the 1920s. In this second edition, several chapters have been augmented and a new chapter added to encompass important features of modernist prose fiction reaching into and beyond World War II. These enhancements allow greater attention to the late works of Mann and Joyce, contributions of the New World authors, and the special relationship of film to literature. Some 300 writers, artists, and thinkers are referenced to illuminate the creative variety of the larger contexts in which such novelists as Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Beckett have a prominent place. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gerald Gillespie is professor emeritus at Stanford University and past president of the International Comparative Literature Association. Among his recent publications is By Way of Comparison Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Gerald Gillespies long and productive scholarly career evidences itself in the encyclopedic scope of this insightful analysis of literary history. . . . -- Choice, Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title A substantial critical study, one of the most widely balanced accounts of modernism we have had in some time. -- Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature Gillespie belongs to an endangered scholarly species that of the real comparatists. . . . -- *Comparative Literature * A masterful study offering a new and uplifting view of the modern, while providing a comparative vision of the work of three great modern authors that transcends the accepted borders of modern understanding.--James Joyce Quarterly **