1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779808003321

Autore

Sales Roger

Titolo

Jane Austen and representations of Regency England / / Roger Sales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-83835-2

1-134-83836-0

1-280-32038-9

0-203-42745-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

823.7

Soggetti

Literature and society - England - History - 19th century

Regency - England

England Social life and customs 19th century

England In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Paperback edition published in 1996"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; Introduction; Part I. The Regency reproduced; 1. Rewriting the Regency; Part II. The Regency rediscovered; 2. The letters: Keeping and losing her countenance; 3. The Prince, the dandy and the Crisis; Part III. The political condition of Regency England; 4. Mansfield Park: The Regency Crisis and the theatre; Part IV. The sick society: Leisure and invalidism in the later writings; 5. Emma: The village and the watering place; 6. Persuasion: The war and the peace

7. Sanditon: The madhouse and the greenhouseAppendix: The plot of Lovers' Vows; Afterword: Austenmania; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of



Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Reg

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964375803321

Titolo

Israeli historical revisionism : from left to right / / editors, Anita Shapira and Derek J. Penslar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-31857-3

1-135-31850-6

1-315-04024-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShapiraAnita

PenslarDerek Jonathan

Disciplina

320.54/095694/0722

Soggetti

Zionism - Historiography

Jews - Palestine - Historiography

Post-Zionism

Israel Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Frank Cass Publishers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Note; Foreword; History and National Liberation; Notes; Left and Right Post-Zionism and the Privatization of Israeli Collective Memory; Post-Zionism: Left and Right; The New Historiography and the Academic Historiography; The New Historiography: Between Method and Ideology; The Praxis of the New Historiography; The New Historiography: From Historical Research to Collective Memory; Right Post-Zionism; Post-Zionism and the Privatization of Israeli Collective Memory; Notes

Historiosophical Foundations of the Historical Strife in IsraelHistorical Nationalism; National Transformations; Ethnic Nationalism; Civic Nationalism; The Nation: What Space? What Time? What Community?;



Notes; The Strategies of Historical Revisionism; The Creation of an Anti-Narrative; Morality and Politics; Legitimization and Delegitimization - the Marking of the Boundaries of the Normative; History as Conspiracy; Selectivity; Terminology; Ben-Gurion as a Symbol; Notes; Zionism and the Counter-Intellectuals; Notes; Zionism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism; Notes

Forgetting Europe: Perspectives on the Debate about Zionism and ColonialismNotes; The Status of Zionist and Israeli History in Israeli Universities; The Pandora's Box: Ramifications of the Tantura Thesis Scandal; Zionist Historiography in the Israeli Academe; Western and Israeli Historiography; History in a Polarized Society; Historiography as a Discipline; The Onslaught of Postmodern Relativism; The Changing Historiography of the Arab-Jewish Conflict; Confronting Palestinian Historiography; The Colonialist Paradigm of Zionism; The Holocaust and Jewish Identity

From "Melting Pot" to Multicultural SocietyHistory in Schools; History and Memory; Concluding Remarks; Notes; History Textbooks and the Limits of Israeli Consciousness; School Curricula and Cultural Criticism; The History of Zionism and the History of the Land; Zionist Settlement and the History of the Conflict; The 1948 War, the Establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Tragedy; Zionist History and Jewish History; Jewish History and Mizrahi History; Conclusions; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the ""melting pot"" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the ""post-Zionist"" radical left, has recently broadened to include a critique from the right. These essays cover diverse aspects of the critique, exploring its historiographical, political, sociological and



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962258003321

Autore

Sales Roger

Titolo

Jane Austen and representations of Regency England / / Roger Sales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-83835-2

1-134-83836-0

1-280-32038-9

0-203-42745-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

823.7

Soggetti

Literature and society - England - History - 19th century

Regency - England

England Social life and customs 19th century

England In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Paperback edition published in 1996"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; Introduction; Part I. The Regency reproduced; 1. Rewriting the Regency; Part II. The Regency rediscovered; 2. The letters: Keeping and losing her countenance; 3. The Prince, the dandy and the Crisis; Part III. The political condition of Regency England; 4. Mansfield Park: The Regency Crisis and the theatre; Part IV. The sick society: Leisure and invalidism in the later writings; 5. Emma: The village and the watering place; 6. Persuasion: The war and the peace

7. Sanditon: The madhouse and the greenhouseAppendix: The plot of Lovers' Vows; Afterword: Austenmania; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of



Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Reg