What is honour? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behaviour? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honour and dismisses the idea that we live in a culture that has discarded it. He notes that we have other words, such as respect, ...
This study draws upon the entire canon of Sir Walter Scott's fiction in order to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behaviour prescribed for the propertied classes. The text has been revised with new essays on history and revolution, repression, social contract and style contrasts.
This text argues that the effort to make the facts of a situation speak for themselves was the single most prominent form of narrative in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on English literary texts and criticism, the history of common law and natural religion, it characterizes the narrative form of "strong representation" - the endeavour ...
Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, this text argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when "The Interpretation of Dreams" was published in the last weeks of the 19th century. Only by going public with his theory - that dreams manifest hidden wishes - did Freud establish a position to defend and ...
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