Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Author: Nicholas Ridout
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472126881

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Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Author: Mervyn Jones
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1976
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Scenes of Parisian Life

Scenes of Parisian Life
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2015-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781343289932

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Modernity and Bourgeois Life

Modernity and Bourgeois Life
Author: Jerrold Seigel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107379474

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To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life.

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison
Author: Dan Poston
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2023-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813950414

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The name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison’s writings "contributed more to the improvement of the minds of the British nation, and polishing their manner, than those of any other English pen whatever." While his influence lives on in the sound and style of English today, the fame of this literary role model has faded from popular awareness. The Addisonian spirit, which ushered in an exceptional era of domestic peace in Britain and provided inspiration for the French and American Revolutions, coded many of the constitutional, political, and social agreements we continue to live with today. This book, the first comprehensive monograph of Addison in half a century, considers Addison’s contribution through an in-depth exploration of his writings, political work, social life, and theatrical stagings.

Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy

Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy
Author: George L. Kline
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000103951

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Originally published in 1952. This book collects numerous works on the revival of Spinoza scholarship in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 30's, including the emergence of conflicting Marxist schools of Spinoza interpretation. This work includes translations by Kline of seven major articles on Spinoza published from 1923-1932, with a lengthy introduction providing contextual references. These developments were generally unknown outside of Russia due to lack of prior translations into a Western European language. The Marxist view of Spinoza represents a break not only with the dominant traditions of Western scholarship, but also with those critical and negative views of pre-Revolutionary Russia. This book provides both the study of Spinoza in Soviet philosophy, and of Soviet philosophy through Spinoza.

Yale Studies in English

Yale Studies in English
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1908
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1903
Genre:
ISBN:

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