2009 lectures.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 167.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., English.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 528 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.

Contents:

The history of romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa : between interest and emotion / Megan Vaughan

Leon Battista Alberti and the redirection of Renaissance humanism / Martin McLaughlin

Shakespeare, oaths and vows / John Kerrigan

Our unwritten Constitution / John Baker

Many legal orders, one law / Francis G. Jacobs

Buddhist archaeology in Republican China : a new relationship to the past / Sarah E. Fraser

The British industrial revolution in global perspective / Robert C. Allen

Anthropology in the territory of rights, Islamic, human, and otherwise

/ Lila Abu-Lughod

Shitao (1642-1707) and the traditional Chinese conception of ruins / Wu Hung

Timely images : Chinese art and festival display / Jan Stuart

Gaelic in Medieval Scotland : advent and expansion / Thomas Owen Clancy

Surrealism and its legacies in Latin America / Dawn Adès

"The reason of this preference" : sleeping, flowing and freezing in Pope's Dunciad / Valerie Rumbold

Donne, by hand / Tom Lockwood

T.S. Eliot's daughter / Robert Crawford

Arthur Miller : realism, language, poetry / Christopher Bigsby.

Notes:

"The Academy is grateful to Professor Ron Johnston, FBA for his editorial work on this volume."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780197264775

0197264778

OCLC:

743283506