Explores the nature and historical development of philosophical thought in Britain in a century that boasted great intellectual richness. This Dictionary covers the major fields of philosophical activity and includes authors who wrote on subjects including aesthetics, literary theory, mathematics, philosophy, science, sociology and theology.

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Product Description: Given the substantial impact of feminism on children’s literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of male bodies and behaviors was until very recently a marginal discussion...read more

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Product Description: This is a biography of the works of Richard Price, 1723-1791, one of the leading radical intellectuals of the late-18th century. By profession a dissenting minister, he was also a mathematician, a political pamphleteer, particularly on the American and French Revolutions, and a moral philosopher...read more

Product Description: Contemporary discussions of literature have paid increasing attention to the ideologies pervading texts and to the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. "Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction" examines these matters in narratives written for children, with a special focus on language, since meanings are primarily constituted in language...read more

Product Description: Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how meaning is produced by the words on the page and how history, culture and ideology have influenced the choice of those words. Literary English changes from period to period as it reflects variations in the society and culture in which it is produced - variations in the ways writers construct images of their world, shifts in the relationships between readers, texts and writers, and linguistic change...read more