Oxford University Press

This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with        particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in        worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti,        Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of...

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Body, Substance, MonadDaniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world lead him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a...

Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-GovernanceWhat underlies this development? In this concise and highly engaging work, Federal        Appeals Court Judge and noted author (From Brown to Bakke) J. Harvie Wilkinson        argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic        constitutional...

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From patriotic "e;God Bless America"e; to wistful "e;White Christmas,"e; Irving Berlin's        songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home        for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to        fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable influence on...