1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155045003321

Titolo

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia : politics, profiles and United States' interests / / Ronald J. Clark and William E. Rivera, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Nova Publishers, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-62417-006-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Caucasus Region Political, Economic, and Security Issues

Disciplina

947.5

Soggetti

Armenia (Republic) Description and travel

Azerbaijan Description and travel

Georgia (Republic) Description and travel

Georgia (Republic) Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia : political developments and implications for U.S. interestes / Jim Nichol -- Armenia country profile / United States Department of State -- Azerbaijan country profile / United States Department of State -- Georgia country profile / United States Department of State.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794427903321

Autore

Lesjak Carolyn J.

Titolo

The afterlife of enclosure : British realism, character, and the commons / / Carolyn J. Lesjak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-2782-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

823.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : realism and the commons -- The persistence of the commons, the persistence of enclosure -- Dickensian types and a culture of the commons -- Eliot, cosmopolitanism, and the commons -- The typical and the tragic in Hardy's geopolitical commons -- Afterword : old and new enclosures

Sommario/riassunto

"The bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies. The three realist writers who are the focus of this study-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-each trace a series of figurations of the common in the wake of the physical or literal commons' destruction, endowing both the historical trauma that was enclosure and the utopian spirit that the commons embodied with an afterlife, one that reveals a radical politics at the heart of these most canonical writers' works"--