Who is knowledgeable is strong [[electronic resource] ] : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 / / Cyrus Schayegh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462199303321
• Autore: Schayegh Cyrus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : Univerity of California Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-520-94354-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 955.05
• Soggetti: Science and civilization; Electronic books.; Iran Intellectual life 20th century; Iran Social conditions 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1900-1950 -- Part 2. Medicalizing Modernity Interactions between the Biomedical Sciences and Modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- Conclusion -- Appendix First-Time Advertisements by Physicians in the Tehran Daily Ettelā'āt, 1927-1939 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns.

Catholicism, controversy, and the English literary imagination, 1558-1660 / / Alison Shell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966744303321
• Autore: Shell Alison
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• ISBN: 1-107-11378-4; 0-511-00724-8; 1-280-16171-X; 0-511-11660-8; 0-511-14995-6; 0-511-30993-7; 0-511-48398-8; 0-511-05387-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/9222/09031
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; English literature - Catholic authors - History and criticism; Christianity and literature - England - History - 16th century; Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century; Christian literature, English - History and criticism; Catholics - England - History - 16th century; Catholics - England - History - 17th century; Catholics - England - Intellectual life; Anti-Catholicism in literature; Catholics in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-302) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The livid flash: decadence, anti-Catholic revenge tragedy and the dehistoricised critic -- Catholic poetics and the Protestant canon -- Catholic loyalism: I. Elizabethan writers -- Catholic loyalism: II. Stuart writers -- The subject of exile: I -- The subject of exile: II.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely ; neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have escaped the attention of literary critics. Among the themes to emerge are the anti-Catholic imagery of revenge tragedy and the definitive contribution made by Southwell and Crashaw to the post-Reformation revival of religious verse in England. Alison Shell offers a fascinating exploration of the rhetorical stratagems by which Catholics sought to demonstrate simultaneous loyalties to the monarch and to their religion, and of the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.