Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

This is a fascinating and original study of the image of the woman reader in Victorian and Edwardian culture and literature. Kate Flint draws on a wide range of texts from `high' literature to advice manuals, autobiographies to medical and psychological writings in order to examine the controversies surrounding what, where, and how women should read.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Herbert Golder and the late William Arrowsmith, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.

Explores the significance behind the religious sites of ancient Greece - why they grew up there, and what social, political, and anthropological influences may have contributed to their development.

This volume presents 12 original essays by contemporary natural law theorists and their critics. Natural law theory is enjoying a revival of interest today in a variety of disciplines, including law, philosophy, political science, and theology and religious studies.

This text concentrates on research done during the last 20 years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. In particular, the author focuses on three major issues: whether quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory, whether it is non-local, and whether it can be interpreted realistically.

The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.

The `Iliad' and `Odyssey' are not just good stories. Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on the persons and actions, and to interpret the world and human life and death. This book shows how this is done.

This study by a Jesuit moral theologian examines the events, personalities and conflicts which have contributed, from New Testament times to the present, to the Roman Catholic moral tradition and its contemporary crisis. The author interprets fundamental changes taking place in the subject today.

This study combines history and ethnography to describe the tribal system in Yemen over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states.

A study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese War until its collapse following World War II. The author describes how Japan's aims were influenced by growing industrialization and its experience of Western imperialism.

Deals with two fundamental themes of late Antiquity: the barbarization of the Roman army and the interrelation of Church and secular government. It explores both Alaric's Goths in the West and the authorities in Constantinople.

This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Examining the full range of Shakespeare's works, Jonathan Bate shows how deeply creative the influence of Ovid was. His accessible study reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nimble as his classical original.

This is the first general account of Dutch hegemony in trade, shipping, and finance between 1585 and 1740. Professor Israel, the leading historian in this field, uses a wide range of sources to explain why, despite its small size and population, the Dutch Republic functioned as the hub of world trade for nearly two centuries.

In this text, the author defends the proposition that "moral laws" can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the "moral ecology" of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.

This study explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society, examining the controversial social, political and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of other people.

The "Oeconomicus" is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of an oikos (family or household) and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. It is a rich primary source for the social, economic and intellectual history of classical Athens.

The visual effect of the staging of Aeschylus' plays was an essential part of their impact. All that survives today are the scripts but this book attempts to search for clues of Aeschylus' stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves.

During his short life Schubert produced a huge amount and variety of music. This biography paints a picture of him and his world, exploring family background, education and musical upbringing, his manic-depression, the effect of his lifestyle on his music, and the circumstances of his death.

This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad scholarly exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages by one of its most distinguished historians. 'an outstanding book', Times Higher Education Supplement

Essays on the work of H.P.Grice, a philosopher predominantly known for his contributions to the philosophy of language. Most of these essays discuss or present his less-known work, but some are original papers by philosophers which develop Grice's work in the philosophy of language.

Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, Jerrold Northrop Moore presents Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career.

First published in 1965, this book deals with the history of violin playing against the background of the violin's evolution and the music written for it. Topics covered include the manner of playing in past centuries, the rules of "scordatura" playing and meanings of performing directions.

Considering Blake's prophetic books of the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time, this study argues that his work is less the expression of isolated genius than the product of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemporaries.

A re-reading of "The Prelude" in the light of poststructuralist and feminist theory, this work is a study of the poem by both a Wordsworthian and feminist critic. The book is a contribution to Wordsworth studies and to debates as they bear on the history and politics of Romanticism itself.

This study deals with a crucial period in the formation of 20th-century analytic philosophy. It discusses the tradition of British idealism, its rejection by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore, and the very influential work of Russell in the period before 1914.

Substantial changes in the Japanese financial system as a result of liberalization and deregulation are causing concern in world financial circles. This survey, supported by the most authoritative data and figures, provides up-to-date, detailed information on the present system and its historical background.

This edition of Aristophanes' play contains a full introduction which covers all aspects of the text, from the manuscript tradition to details of the playwright himself. The play is supplemented by a commentary designed for readers from sixth formers to academics.

This treatise argues that it should be the function of company law to promote the public interest. It examines a number of topical issues and the protection of interests largely ignored by company law, such as those of employees and the local community.

This edition of Aristophanes' comedy is intended for students and scholars. It includes an examination of the comic and dramatic qualities of the play and an introduction to the text covering aspects of the play from historical background to metrical explanations and manuscript tradition.

Since the 18th century, Western scholars and musicians have been fascinated by the music of India. Whether in the realms of musicological enquiry, or as an exotic flavour on the stage, or in popular songs, Indian music has been part of the West's consciousness for over two hundred years. Indian Music and the West traces the fascinating history of this complex cultural and musical encounter.