Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016  Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period.  This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.

Literature & Fiction

Davies, Jeremy

History & Criticism

Routledge

Birth of the Anthropocene

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental destruction and injustice. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Jeremy Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined.

The Birth of the Anthropocene

History

Americas

University of California Press

When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period.  This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.

Perverse, playful, and highly comic stories that take dead aim at fictional convention.Playful, fantastical, gruesome, and tender by turns, this debut collection of short fiction by Jeremy M. Davies runs the gamut from parody to tragedy and back. "Sad White People" follows a souring hipster love affair that finds itself brutally hijacked by a far more interesting story, while "The Terrible Riddles of Human Sexuality (Solved)" introduces us to a dominatrix whose life is splintered into a series of children's brainteasers. "The Excise-Man" pastiches Robert Burns and Flann O'Brien in a rowdy tale of moonshine and tax evasion, while "Forkhead Box" catalogs the professional and personal embarrassments of a New York State executioner in the days of the Rosenbergs. Finally, the epic "Delete the Marquis" looks back to the nineteenth-century novel, chronicling the woes of an impecunious ghostwriter who has inadvertently turned the entire world into a lurid fiction. Overflowing with "wit, irresistible ingenuity, and a stupefying narrative abundance" (Harry Mathews), Davies's fiction takes dead aim at literary convention while reimagining the art of storytelling for the twenty-first century.

The Knack of Doing: Stories

Literary

Black Sparrow Press

Most who read the Declaration of Independence find three foundational liberties promised to our citizens: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. An increasing number of citizens seem to be discovering the fourth: the right to alter or abolish a form of government that leads invariably to tyranny. Since leaving the military and his security contracting work behind, Dave has been preparing himself for the time when exercising the right to alter or abolish may become necessary. When he is approached on behalf of some powerful men who are prepared to risk their fortune to strike a blow against the political tyranny embodied by the president, Dave is prepared to accept the role of assassin. As he prepares to accept the mission of a lifetime, an alternate narrative begins to unfold. He struggles to discover whether the hit will be on behalf of a besieged gun maker or whether it has been orchestrated by members of the presidents own party, who feel that his death would rescue the chances of their party heading into an election. As the motive becomes clear, so does Daves course of action. He is caught in a race against time to thwart their plans, not for the leader of a country but for the life of a friend.

Burnished Rows of Steel

Tate Publishing

Preaching is an essential component of priestly ministry and a means of pastoral engagement with the community, incarnating the holy and the eternal in the local and the now, and articulating the prophetic voice of the Church. It is a high calling and preachers rightly feel daunted by it. This wise, elegant and practical companion, illustrated with examples of sermon texts, offers a rich doctrine of preaching in the Anglican tradition that will inspire confidence and hone skills. It explores key aspects of preaching including: 
<ul>
<li>Scripture as the heart of all preaching 
</li> <li>Preaching as mission and engagement with the wider world 
</li> <li>Preaching to all ages â€" the use of story 
</li> <li>Preaching and rites of passage â€" baptisms, wedding and funerals</li> <li>Preaching through the liturgical year including festivals 
</li> </ul> For beginners and seasoned preachers alike, this resource will provide inspiration over and over again.

In Season and Out of Season: Crafting sermons for all occasions

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Canterbury Press Norwich

Both secularism and superstition have popularisd some very distorted ideas about exorcism. This booklet, written by an eperienced exorcist, looks at its origin in the Gospels and its pratice in the Church today. Different kinds of demonic influence are discussed, including their relation to conversion and sin, causes and degrees of D.I. as well as diagnosis and spiritual discernment and mental illness. 
After working as a doctor in England and in Mission hospitals abroad, Jeremy Davies was ordained in 1974 and appointed a diocesan exorcist in 1986.

Exorcism

Catholic Truth Society

Fiction. When violence erupts on the streets of Paris in May 1968, a hapless international film crew finds itself stranded during the shooting of a preposterous low-budget blue movie about notorious eighteenth-century erotic poet John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester. A deadpan and digressive behind-the-scenes catalog of the actors, filmmakers, bystanders, and subjects involved in this movie, ROSE ALLEY is also a fantastical and venomous love letter to French film and literature, obsessive collectors, pornography, language, revolution, misanthropy, the joys of cross-cultural misunderstanding, and other peculiar objects of affection. As Harry Mathews writes, "you have no excuse not to read this book."

Rose Alley

Contemporary

Counterpath Press

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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

The Birth of the Anthropocene

Birth of the Anthropocene

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

The Knack of Doing: Stories

Burnished Rows of Steel

In Season and Out of Season: Crafting sermons for all occasions

Exorcism

Rose Alley