The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors--including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others--in book form and in its monthly Blackwood's Magazine. In The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse.
Finkelstein begins with a...
The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British lit...
At least since Descartes, philosophers have been interested in the special knowledge or authority that we exhibit when we speak about our own thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. Expression and the Inner contends that even the best work in contemporary philosophy of mind fails to account for this sort of knowledge or authority because it does not pay the right sort of attention to the notion of expression. Following what he takes to be a widely misunderstood suggestion of Wittgenstein's, Finkelstein argues that we can make sense of self-knowledge and first-person authority only by coming...
At least since Descartes, philosophers have been interested in the special knowledge or authority that we exhibit when we speak about our own thoughts...
A cultural history from renowned book historian David Finkelstein, who draws on a vast range of international sources to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century.
A cultural history from renowned book historian David Finkelstein, who draws on a vast range of international sources to explore how printers interact...
