When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. "Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature" reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period....
When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the ...
Preaching is an essential component of priestly ministry and a means of pastoral engagement with the community, incarnating the holy and the eternal in the local and the now, and articulating the prophetic voice of the Church. It is a high calling and preachers rightly feel daunted by it. This wise, elegant and practical companion, illustrated with examples of sermon texts, offers a rich doctrine of preaching in the Anglican tradition that will inspire confidence and hone skills. It explores key aspects of preaching including: -Scripture as the heart of all preaching -Preaching as mission and...
Preaching is an essential component of priestly ministry and a means of pastoral engagement with the community, incarnating the holy and the eternal i...
Perverse, playful, and highly comic stories that take dead aim at fictional and literary convention. These stories run the gamut from parody to tragedy and back, and reimagine the art of storytelling for the twenty-first century.
Perverse, playful, and highly comic stories that take dead aim at fictional and literary convention. These stories run the gamut from parody to traged...
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the...
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, a...
