This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more important role as both a subject and a guiding principle for literary criticism.
Over the past thirty years, much literary theory has approached literature in general, and Victorian fiction in particular, in a spirit of suspicion. It has tried to purge criticism of the human subject, and of that distinctively human faculty, sympathy. Reading in a contrary, sympathetic mode, Lowe turns the...
This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sy...
The articles in this book have been selected for their importance to the reform movement and for their accessibility to the general reader. Intelligibility is one of the movement's two keystones. "Real economic problems" concern real people, so their analysis must be made intelligible to an educated general public if real democracy is to function.
The second keystone of the post-autistic movement is pluralism. All analysis proceeds on the basis of concepts that admit only a partial view of the economy, thereby predetermining the set of possible conclusions. This requires economists...
The articles in this book have been selected for their importance to the reform movement and for their accessibility to the general reader. Intelli...
Explore the musical wonders of Europe This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Selected on the basis of international reputation, architectural appeal, historical and cultural significance and performance quality, Europe's foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, offering concise venue descriptions, directions and historical information, 'Anthem Guide to the Opera, Concert Halls and Classical Music Venues of Europe' is essential reading...
Explore the musical wonders of Europe This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Selected on the basis of interna...
No one has challenged the policies of the international financial community as profoundly as Joseph Stiglitz, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank. In controversial speeches made around the world, Stiglitz has undone the conventional wisdom that dominated policy-making at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department.
For the first time, Stiglitz's nine most revealing speeches have been gathered together, covering such topics as the failure of shock therapy and transition economics, the limits of capital market liberalization, the myopia of...
No one has challenged the policies of the international financial community as profoundly as Joseph Stiglitz, the former Chief Economist of the Wor...
Simply the best atlas for students, Anthem's 'Modern World University Atlas' is the essential reference resource for the contemporary world. This is the only student atlas with fully integrated study maps and other illustrations on: climate and the environment; geological processes; natural disasters; economic and social concerns; health and education; wealth and poverty; travel and tourism; population trends, and maps of the world's 18 greatest cities.
The 'Modern World University Atlas' also benefits from clear, detailed and fresh political and physical digital colour maps of our...
Simply the best atlas for students, Anthem's 'Modern World University Atlas' is the essential reference resource for the contemporary world. This i...
