Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Literature & Fiction

Carnochan, W. B.

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

Lemuel Gulliver's Mirror for Man

<p><div>Satire, long the most neglected of literary genres, has begun to claim its share of critical attention. And no book in the satiric tradition has generated more controversy that Gulliver's Travels; since it was first published it has been the subject of an often passionate debate about its moral and esthetic value--a debate inseparable from the question of what Swift was really saying about us all, especially in Book IV.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Despite the running controversy, this is the first extended study of the Travels to appear in over forty years. It places Swift's masterpiece in the perspective of its own age, but also in relation to ours. First it reviews the philosophical doubts of the Augustans about the nature of man--doubts now recognized as a major force behind Swift's satire. It examines Augustan satiric theory and its Continental background; and, coming to the Travels, treats them as one instance of a conventional form, the "satire on man." On the vexed problem of Book IV it argues that alternative views of Swift as a savage misanthrope and as a benign humanist are both inadequate, and that as in Swift's irony generally, what seem to be contradictory truths are simultaneously in force.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The study is concerned throughout with the way values operate in a satiric context. What, for example are we to make of Gulliver's pious attachment to "truth"-telling? In this connection, a speculative theory is proposed which relates Swift's satiric intentions to the epistemology of John Locke. Finally, an epilogue looks ahead to some modern writers--Lewis Carroll, Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov--whose habits throw a retrospective light on Swift's. The study, broadly speaking, is not only about Gulliver's Travels but also about the psychology of the satirist and about the mind's response, whether the Augustans' or our own, at moments of intellectual crisis.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div></p>

University of California Press

Gibbon’s Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian

Biographies & Memoirs

Stanford University Press

<p>This work seeks to bring sense to a volatile subject by reminding us that controversy has always surrounded the curriculum of the modern university. It points out where and how contemporary critics of the curriculum are wrong, historically speaking, and it shows how American ideals of liberal education are extraordinarily obscure, the product of many different attitudes and historical intentions. The author suggests that we cannot begin to understand the present curricular wars without looking back over the past two centuries. The author analyzes moments in history including the battle of the books between Oxford and representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment at the turn of the 19th century and attempts to show that the fields of literature and history in liberal education have been joined by, and in a measure challenged by, the comparatively young discipline of anthropology, a moment when American higher education needs to understand better what it is trying to do.</p>

The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence

<p>This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their African expedition in 1857-59. Speke died of a gunshot wound, probably accidental, the day before a scheduled debate with Burton in 1864. Burton has had the upper hand in subsequent accounts. Speke has been called a “cad.” In light of new evidence and after a careful reading of duelling texts, Carnochan concludes that the case against Speke remains unproven-and that the story, as normally told, displays the inescapable uncertainty of historical narrative.<br><br>All was fair in this love-war.</p>

History

World

Stanford General Books

<p>Memoir of a distinguished scholar and art collector, with emphasis on: </p>
<p>--the historical and social background of his 19th century forebears, including members of New York high society and a governor of Michigan<br> --collecting of American Folk Art<br> --experience as a student and then "baby dean" at Harvard<br> --experience as a young Stanford professor in the '60s<br> --travel in Africa tracing the steps of his mysterious uncle</p>

Momentary Bliss : An American Memoir

Schools & Teaching

Stanford Univ Libraries

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