Author: Albrecht Classen File Type: pdf Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point of view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Arizona in May 2013 addressing all these issues from a variety of perspectives, inviting us to consider them especially through a historical lens. **About the Author Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Author: Robert L. O'Connell File Type: mobi From Publishers WeeklyMilitary historian OConnell (_Of Arms and Men A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. OConnell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts OConnells ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps. (July) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromThe Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibals invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but OConnell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Romes survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman

Author: Anca Cristofovici File Type: pdf Who isnt seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such questions and turns them into a meditation on how aesthetics mediates our relation to time. The photographic approach of the corporeal is at the center of the book. Within a phenomenological framework, Cristofovici brings into focus the physical and the psychic body to read aging as a process of change and becoming over time. Her understanding of aging sees beyond difference into larger patterns of perceptions that we share. Offering valuable insights into aging as a process of subject construction, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of visual culture, photography, art history, age studies, and theories of knowledge. This cross-disciplinary study that puts theory to the test of lifes and arts paradoxes in an evocative style will also appeal to a wider readership interested in how photography and aging illuminate each other.

Author: Allan Ingram File Type: pdf ReviewThe studies that make up Melancholy Experience show how integral and dynamic medical and literary writing can be when read together. Judiciously chosen texts from a range of genres, by major figures and anonymous authors, demonstrate the wealth of perspectives offered by the history of melancholy on such topics as sex, religion, and creativity, as well as the condition itself. The book maintains a sense of conviction that the records left by sufferers and those who cared for them in the long eighteenth century are valuable for those who suffer now and those who wish to help. It is a fine example of such cross-era juxtaposition done conscientiously and constructively. Perhaps the strongest and most unique feature of this work is the humaneness of its scholarship, which causes the reader to share the deep interest and compassion the authors evidently feel for their subjects. --Tristanne Connolly, Assistant Professorof English, St. Jeromes University, University of Waterloo, CanadaAbout the AuthorALLAN INGRAM is Professor of English at the University of Northumbria, UK. He has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century studies and particularly on literature and madness. He was Director of the Leverhulme Trust Before Depression project. He is co-general editor and volume co-editor for the forthcoming Depression and Melancholy 1660-1800 set (Pickering & Chatto, 2012).STUART SIM is Visiting Professor of Critical Theory and Long Eighteenth-Century English Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Northumbria, UK. He has published widely in his two main subject areas. A co-editor and founder-member of the journal Bunyan Studies (1988- ), he was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.CLARK LAWLOR is Reader in English Literature at the University of Northumbria, UK, and has published many works on literature and medicine including Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease (Palgrave, 2006), which was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English book prize 2006-8. At present he is writing Depression The Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011).RICHARD TERRY is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at University of Northumbria, UK, having worked for many years at the University of Sunderland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century poetry and on mock-heroic as a literary device and form.JOHN BAKER is Maitre de conferences (Senior Lecturer) in English at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. He has published in French and English on themes associated with the writings of Edward Young and the Night Thoughts, and more generally on poetry of the eighteenth century. LEIGH WETHERALL-DICKSON is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature at University of Northumbria, UK and began her career there as a post-doctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded Before Depression 1660-1800 project. She is currently involved as co-general editor and volume editor for the forthcoming Depression and Melancholy 1660-1800 set (Pickering & Chatto, 2012). Arisingfrom a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.ReviewThe studies that make up Melancholy Experience show how integral and dynamic medical and literary writing can be when read together. Judiciously chosen texts from a range of genres, by major figures and anonymous authors, demonstrate the wealth of perspectives offered by the history of melancholy on such topics as sex, religion, and creativity, as well as the condition itself. The book maintains a sense of conviction that the records left by sufferers and those who cared for them in the long eighteenth century are valuable for those who suffer now and those who wish to help. It is a fine example of such cross-era juxtaposition done conscientiously and constructively. Perhaps the strongest and most unique feature of this work is the humaneness of its scholarship, which causes the reader to share the deep interest and compassion the authors evidently feel for their subjects. --Tristanne Connolly, Assistant Professorof English, St. Jeromes University, University of Waterloo, CanadaAbout the AuthorALLAN INGRAM is Professor of English at the University of Northumbria, UK. He has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century studies and particularly on literature and madness. He was Director of the Leverhulme Trust Before Depression project. He is co-general editor and volume co-editor for the forthcoming Depression and Melancholy 1660-1800 set (Pickering & Chatto, 2012).STUART SIM is Visiting Professor of Critical Theory and Long Eighteenth-Century English Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Northumbria, UK. He has published widely in his two main subject areas. A co-editor and founder-member of the journal Bunyan Studies (1988- ), he was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.CLARK LAWLOR is Reader in English Literature at the University of Northumbria, UK, and has published many works on literature and medicine including Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease (Palgrave, 2006), which was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English book prize 2006-8. At present he is writing Depression The Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011).RICHARD TERRY is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at University of Northumbria, UK, having worked for many years at the University of Sunderland. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century poetry and on mock-heroic as a literary device and form.JOHN BAKER is Maitre de conferences (Senior Lecturer) in English at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. He has published in French and English on themes associated with the writings of Edward Young and the Night Thoughts, and more generally on poetry of the eighteenth century. LEIGH WETHERALL-DICKSON is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature at University of Northumbria, UK and began her career there as a post-doctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded Before Depression 1660-1800 project. She is currently involved as co-general editor and volume editor for the forthcoming Depression and Melancholy 1660-1800 set (Pickering & Chatto, 2012).