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Looking Backward 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Beaumont. - London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XXXVI, 220 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

Autor

Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898). Beaumont, Matthew (1972- ).

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Książki Proza

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

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Powieść Science fiction

Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years, the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. Broad streets have replaced the squalid slums of Boston, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia. Matthew Beaumont's lively edition explores the political and psychological peculiarities of this celebrated utopian fiction.

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Studies in the History of the Renaissance / Walter Pater ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Beaumont. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - XXXVIII, 193 s ; 20 cm.

Autor

Pater, Walter (1839-1894). Beaumont, Matthew (1972- ).

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Język angielski Renesans

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Szkice literackie angielskie

Oxford World's Classics / Oxford University Press

Na okł.: Cover illustration: detail from Portrait of Pico della Mirandola, Cristofano dell' Altissimo.

Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. Pater's infamous "Conclusion," which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition of 1873. Matthew Beaumont's Introduction describes the cultural context that gave rise to the book, the reasons for its notoriety, Pater's philosophical outlook, and the arguments in his book. It explores Pater's work as an attempt to preserve the unique aesthetic of a work of art in the face of encroaching mass culture. The book also includes the later chapter on Giorgione as an Appendix, comprehensive notes that identify the many literary and artistic references, and a useful glossary of names.

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