Bøker av Paul Hamilton

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1885) published nothing in her lifetime, save short extracts from her journals and letters which her brother, William, included in his Guide to the Lakes. She spent most of her life caring for her brother and his family, working, traveling and studying with him and his friends who include de Quincey and Coleridge. This selection for the first time presents her writings as a discrete text, giving her a separate authorial voice from that of her brother and bringing her to a new generation of students, scholars and enthusiasts. Wordsworth's journals, analyzed and set into context by Paul Hamilton's insightful introduction, chronicle the hardships and indispositions, the comings and goings, the windfalls and losses of those around her, both at home and during her many travels, revealing a relish for the experiences of others distinctly free from Romantic egoism. Most significantly, in her Grasmere Journal, she tells her own story, imposing her own narrative structure on events and discovering the plot of her own life.

Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.

Go Ahead, Create is a book about discovering a person''s own innate creative potential. Creativity isn''t reserved for a few high-profile entertainers or artists. Mr. Hamilton''s approach is unique. He explores approaches to creativity that can assist anyone to be more in tune with their own search for personal growth. One reviewer comments, "This book is of lasting value for anyone interested in creativity...the author does a wonderful job of explaining the nature and impact of creativity on human nature."

This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.

A guide to enable students to understand and apply historicist approaches, this title: explains the theory and practice of historicism; presents the history of the term and its uses; introduces key thinkers in the field; and considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as post-colonialism, feminism and globalization.