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UNINA9910454088403321 |
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Oddie William |
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Titolo |
Chesterton and the romance of Orthodoxy [[electronic resource] ] : the making of GKC, 1874-1908 / / William Oddie |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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1-282-05338-8 |
9786612053382 |
0-19-156431-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (412 p.) |
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820.93823 |
823.912 |
823.914 |
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Authors, English - 20th century |
Christianity and literature - Great Britain - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer's spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-391) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations for Works Most Frequently Cited; PART I; Introduction; 1. The Man with the Golden Key, 1874-83; 2. School Days: St Paul's and the JDC, 1883-92; 3. Nightmare at the Slade: Digging for the Sunrise of Wonder, 1892-4; 4. Beginning the Journey round the World, 1894-9; PART II; 5. Who is GKC? 1900-2; 6. The Man of Letters as Defender of the Faith, 1903-4: Robert Browning; Blatchford I; The Napoleon of Notting Hill; 7. The Critic as Polemicist, 1904-6: G. F. Watts; Blatchford II; Heretics; The Ball and the Cross; Charles Dickens |
8. Battles in the Last Crusade, 1907-8: The Man who was Thursday and Orthodoxy Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; |
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Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early |
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childhood in the 1870's to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings. - ;On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot |
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UNINA9910784240603321 |
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Autore |
Herbst Jurgen |
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School choice and school governance [[electronic resource] ] : a historical study of the United States and Germany / / Jurgen Herbst |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
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1-281-36695-1 |
9786611366957 |
0-312-37622-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2006.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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School choice - United States - History |
School choice - Germany - History |
School management and organization - United States - History |
School management and organization - Germany - History |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-188) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: School Choice: A Brief Overview; 1 Beginnings; 2 The Systematization of Public Education; 3 School Governance and School Choice 1900-1950; 4 School Choice in the United States after World War II; 5 Schulwahl in the Post-World War II Period; 6 Retrospect and Outlook; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index |
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For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools. This book reviews these debates and discusses racial integration, ethnicity, social class, |
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vouchers, charter, magnet and private schools in the United States, the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. |
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