...This chapter examines Charles Brockden Brown's letters, which chart his difficult evolution as a novelist. Brown seems to have learned how to turn sympathy into literature by using a circle of intimate male friends as guinea pigs for his experiments. Success brought him feelings of guilt...

... academies, commercial societies, and the Republic of Letters—and reveals the role that the group played in the constitution of the Académie de Chirurgie in 1731. The chapter also offers a nuanced discussion of the relationship between the Société and the Académie des Sciences, and of the reasons that led...

...This chapter discusses three different documents in order to paint a clear picture of Christianity's break from Judaism. The three documents are the Fourth Gospel, the Gospel of Matthew, and the letters of Paul and his disciples. These are the three documents that are deeply concerned...

...This chapter discusses the letters Alan Macfarlane wrote for his granddaughter Lily. The letters aim to tell the granddaughter what human beings are like when she finally turns seventeen years old. The chapter assumes that Lily will be surprised by her grandfather's favourable estimate...

...This chapter reviews the eighth volume of the Pilgrim Edition of the letters of Charles Dickens. The letters allow one to see the scandals concerning his wife Catherine and his relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan from Dickens's viewpoint. Catherine had been a bad mother, unloved by her...

...” investigated include educational handbooks, visual art on walls and small objects, physical evidence for classroom spaces, and school exercises preserved on papyri. In addition, the chapter calls special attention to the way that Jesus manipulates (and thereby demonstrates mastery over) letters...

...This chapter first examines the lack of metaphysics about language and looks at how the Torah is composed of white fire (the divine substance) and black fire (letters). It looks at the symbolic interpretations of the white and black fire in medieval Kabbalistic treatments, followed by the main...

... to the end of her long life. The book quotes extensively from the Rudge–Pound letters—an almost daily correspondence that began in the 1920s and continued until Pound's death in 1972. These letters shed light on many aspects of Pound's disturbing personality; the complicated and delicate balance he...

... between Egyptian writing and administration and the invention of the alphabet. A later alphabetic cuneiform writing system is invented in Ugarit in the middle of the second millennium. The Amarna Letters, written in a Canaano-Akkadian dialect with the cuneiform writing system, are another precursor...

... such as peasants, women, and soldiers. Krestianskaia gazeta's letter column provided peasants a rostrum from which to challenge official affronts to their dignity, discuss national and local issues, and expose wrongdoings perpetrated by officials or other peasants. The chapter then discusses...

...This chapter discusses economic issues and the Bolshevik regime's economic policies. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views on issues such as land reform, their relations with landlords, improving agriculture, and taxes. civil war kulaks peasants and agrarian policy...

...This chapter discusses the relationship between city and village. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views about the worker–peasant partnership; worker–peasant friction; bureaucrats; and organizing agricultural production. Germany agriculture in Hungary Poland...

...This chapter discusses various aspects of village life pertaining to daily existence. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views about alcohol consumption, education, the youth, women, religion, and disorder. Communist Party and Brest Litovsk Treaty Gorky Maxim Novaia...

...This chapter, which discusses various aspects of village life pertaining to the exercise of political power at the local level, presents letters written by the peasantry expressing their views about the Lenin cult, the Bolshevik rural policy, and conceptions of authority. Libedinsky Yury A Week...

...This chapter presents letters indicating how the peasants understood the aims and benefits of socialist construction. harvests in 1925 Hindus Maurice capitalist encirclement Communist Party and Brest Litovsk Treaty industrialization Bolshevik program of Lenin V I New Economic Policy NEP...

...This book presents a collection of peasant writings composed during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to newspapers, government officials, and Communist Party leaders. The letters...

...Rousseau is the first writer to signal a radical discontent with the Enlightenment and its creation, the bourgeois. He conveys this critique most powerfully in his denunciation of modernity’s great model of a kind of global civil society described as the “Republic of Letters.” In his First...

...This chapter shows how Higuera’s conversations with other learned men, and his unique place in the Spanish Republic of Letters, help explain not only the genesis of his project, but also its success, as his friends became the texts’ first proponents. The role of Higuera’s friends, acquaintances...

...This book makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul’s letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, it offers a textured portrait of the ancient Corinthians with whom Paul conversed, argued, debated...

...This chapter takes a glimpse into the lives of various individuals during World War II. Via the letters and diaries of various soldiers, artists, poets, and individuals of many other stripes, Ronald Blythe's Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War (1991...