Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales: His Country, His Times and His Contemporaries (1888), Hood Paxton

Автор: Sowerby, Dale
Название: Adventures of baggy and paxton
ISBN: 1847487041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847487049
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Описание: Baggy the brown bear and Paxton the grey-and-white dog are always getting into trouble. They go on holiday to Devon and decide to have a bath. Everything is great and they splash around in the tub, until they forget to turn off the taps. Suddenly, disaster strikes... All the animals in Dawlish Warren club together to help Baggy and Paxton, but they all end up in trouble themselves These hilarious characters just don't know what to do. The Spanish gorilla policeman can't save anyone from danger and even the clever inventions of Colonel 'Trumper' Squirrel are no help. Will Dawlish Warren ever be peaceful again? The Adventures of Baggy and Paxton came into being while I was on holiday with my family in Dawlish Warren, Devon in 2004. I would always read my boys, James and Edward, a bedtime story but I had finished the books we'd brought with us, so their mum suggested I make up a story this particular night as they wouldn't settle down and go to sleep. I decided to use their cuddly toys as characters in my story. It wasn't the story you are going to read in this book, but it was the inspiration for it and a series of others based on the same characters. This particular story came into being while I was working on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico. I had quite a lot of free time and in a conversation with my boys' mum over the phone, she suggested I put the stories of Baggy and Paxton down in writing. This, The Adventures of Baggy and Paxton: Trouble in Dawlish Warren, is the first. I hope you enjoy it as much as my children and their friends have. Thank you. Dale Sowerby

Автор: Paxton, Nancy L.
Название: George eliot and herbert spencer
ISBN: 0691636567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691636566
Издательство: Wiley
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This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary "reconstruction of gender," the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. "This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting."--Barry Qualls, Rutgers University

Originally published in 1991.

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