Religion in Victorian Britain

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Religion in Victorian Britain

edited by Gerald Parsons

Manchester University Press in association with the Open University , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1988-c1997

  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 1 : pbk.
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 2 : pbk.
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 3 : pbk.
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 4 : pbk.
  • Vol. 5 : pbk.

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v. 1. Traditions. -- v. 2. Controversies. -- v. 3. Sources. -- v. 4. In terpretations

"The four volumes form the nucleus of an Open University course"--Pref

Vol. 3 edited by: James R. Moore -- inserted erratta srip

Includes bibliographies and index

Contents of Works

  • v. 1. Traditions
  • v. 2. Controversies
  • v. 3. Sources
  • v. 4. Interpretations
  • v. 5. Culture and empire / edited by John Wolffe

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

Vol. 1 : pbk. ISBN 9780719025112

Description

This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities. -- .
Volume

Vol. 3 : pbk. ISBN 9780719029448

Description

A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpretation. The text for this edition is based on a fresh study of the quarto of 1633, the only authoritative early text. In his introduction to the play, Moore reappraises the evidence for the play's date of composition. He also looks at the circumstances of the play's genesis, presenting detailed discussions of both the theater where "Love's Sacrifice" was first performed and the acting company for which it was written. Arguing that Ford's adaptation of his source materials is the key to interpreting this remarkably allusive play, Moore provides a wealth of new information about Ford's sources.The introduction also includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. This new volume in the "Revels Plays" series is the most detailed and comprehensive edition of "Love's Sacrifice" ever published - and the first modern-spelling edition of Ford's tragedy in more than a century. The play's textual history is discussed in an appendix. A second appendix examines possible links between "Love's Sacrifice" and the real-life story of the murdered Italian prince and musician Carlo Gesualdo. -- .
Volume

Vol. 4 : pbk. ISBN 9780719029462

Description

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. -- .
Volume

Vol. 5 : pbk. ISBN 9780719051845

Description

This book offers the first in-depth study of one of the most gripping trials of inter-war Britain, that of farmer's wife Beatrice Pace for the arsenic murder of her husband. A riveting tale from the golden age of press sensationalism, the book offers insights into the era's justice system, gender debates and celebrity culture. Based on extensive research, it locates the Pace saga in the vibrant world of 1920s press reporting and illuminates a forgotten chapter in the history of civil liberties by considering the debates the case raised about police powers and the legal system. Spanning settings from the Paces' lonely cottage in the Forest of Dean to the House of Commons and using sources ranging from meticulous detective reports to heartfelt admirers' letters, The most remarkable woman in England combines serious scholarship with vivid storytelling to bring to life the extraordinary lives of ordinary people between the wars. -- .

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - religion in Victorian Britain in context, John Wolffe
  • "male and female he created them" - men, women and the question of gender, Frances Knight
  • "march we forth in the strength of God" - hymns and church music, John Wolffe
  • gospel and empire - Victorian missions and missionaries, Teence Thomas
  • rethinking the missionary position - Bishop Colenso of Natal, Gerald Parsons
  • bringing India to Oxford - Max Muller and Monier-Monier-Williams, Gwilym Beckerlegge and Terence Thomas
  • the presence of other religions in Britian, Gwilym Beckerlegge.

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