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Shakespeare: ‘Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies’

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A brief commentary prepared by Elizabeth Mackay, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

William Shakespeare
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
1632; Second Folio

Remarque: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’

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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1928 and 1929; Corrected galley proofs in author’s hand (1928); first edition (1929)

O'Connor: ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’

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A brief commentary prepared by Brother Tom Wendorf, S.M., PhD, national vocation director, Marianist Province of the United States, on the following work:

Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
ca. 1955; first edition

Sheila Hassell Hughes, professor of English, reads a selection.

Newton: ‘Opticks’

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Two brief commentaries prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and H. Angus Macleod, DTech, University of Arizona, on the following work:

Isaac Newton
Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
London, 1704; first edition

Marx: ‘Das Kapital’

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A brief commentary prepared by Alex Macleod, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

Karl Marx
Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy)
Hamburg, 1867; volume 1; first edition

Malcolm X: ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X’

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Excerpted from The New York Times, November 5, 1965, on the following work:

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1963; written with Alex Haley; original typed draft

Maimonides: ‘The Guide Of The Perplexed’

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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Moses Maimonides
Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed)
Possibly Rome, ca. 1469; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon

Lincoln: Political Debates Of 1858

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Abraham Lincoln
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus, 1860; first edition; first issue; presentation copy.

Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus of English, reads a selection.

Goethe: ‘Faust’

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Leipzig, 1790; first edition

Freud: ‘The Interpretation Of Dreams’

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A brief commentary prepared by Andrew Slade, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams)
Leipzig, 1900; first edition; presentation copy

Frank: ‘Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl’

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A brief commentary prepared by Sandra Yocum, PhD, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:

Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)
Amsterdam, 1947; New York, 1952; first edition in Dutch; first edition printed in the United States

Sheila Hassell Hughes, professor of English, reads a selection from May 18, 1943.

Hear another reading by Hughes: "Reading of ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,' July 15, 1944"

Ellison: ‘Invisible Man’

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A brief commentary prepared by John McCombe, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952; first edition; presentation copy

Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus of English, reads a selection.

Dostoevsky: ‘Brothers Karamazov’

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A brief commentary prepared by Masha Kisel, PhD, Instructor, English, on the following work:

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bratya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov)
St. Petersburg, 1881; first edition

Descartes: ‘Discourse On The Method’

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

René Descartes
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method)
Leiden, 1637; first edition

Chaucer: ‘Canterbury Tales’

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A brief commentary prepared by Miriamne Ara Krummel, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
London , ca. 1492; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan

Carroll: ‘Alice's Adventures In Wonderland’

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York, 1969; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist

Blake: ‘Illustrations Of The Book Of Job’

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A brief commentary prepared by William Marvin, MA, Lecturer, Philosophy, on the following work:

William Blake
Illustrations of the Book of Job
London, 1825; original boards

Austen: ‘Pride And Prejudice’

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A brief commentary prepared by Laura Vorachek, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
1813; One of only five copies in the original boards

Dandelion's "The Liturgies Of Quakerism" - Book Review, Paul Anderson

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.

Mingins' "The Beacon Controversy And Challenges To British Quaker Tradition In The Early Nineteenth Century: Some Responses To The Evangelical Revival By Friends In Manchester And Kendal" - Book Review, Hugh Mcleod

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.

Peters' "Print Culture And The Early Quakers" - Book Review, Catie Gill

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.

The Universal Dimension: William Loftus Hare's Pivotal Contribution To London Yearly Meeting, Tony Adams

Quaker Studies

The origins of Christian universalism in the Religious Society of Friends during the seventeenth century are reviewed. A Hicksite shift among some Friends in the nineteenth century is seen as paving the way for a radical extension oflnner Lightist philosophies of universalism. A doctrine of Inner Light mysticism, as presented by Rufus Jones, is considered in the context of an extension of universalism among Quakers. As editor of the Socialist Quaker Society journal The Ploughshare, and in later published studies, William Loftus Hare (1863-1943) forwarded a form of theological universalism at some considerable variance with its previous meanings throughout Quaker …

From The Hicksites To The Progressive Friends: The Rural Roots Of Perfectionism And Social Reform Among North American Friends, Christopher Densmore

Quaker Studies

In the 1840s and 1850s, North American Friends endured a series of localized separations. This paper examines the Progressive Friends separations in Genesee Yearly Meeting in 1848, centered in the 'burned-over district' of New York State, and in Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1852-53. Both separations had roots in the controversy among Friends over appropriate anti-slavery activities and both challenged the existing structures of the Religious Society of Friends. These separations were both radical and rural, and mark a distinct change from the earlier deference of Friends towards the leadership of London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.

Patterns And Practices Of Women's Leadership In The Yorkshire Quaker Community, 1760-1820, Helen Plant

Quaker Studies

By the second half of the eighteenth century, women ministers had become the principal upholders of the spiritual life of Quakerism in Yorkshire. Drawing on a range of sources including the institutional records of Quaker Meetings, personal correspondence and spiritual journals and autobiographies, this paper aims to shed light on the precise nature of female leadership in the Religious Society of Friends and to contribute to greater understanding of the conditions under which it became dominant. It suggests that the growing tendency for women to outnumber men as ministers was closely linked to wider social and economic trends within contemporary …

Daniel Eccleston Of Lancaster 1745-1821: A Man Not Afraid To Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants, Carolyn Downs

Quaker Studies

It is unusual for an historian to be able to establish in great detail the life of any but those considered one of 'the great and the good'. The substantial amount of documentary sources, both by, and about, the Quaker radical Daniel Eccleston of Lancaster (1745-1821), provide an opportunity to view a turbulent period in British history through the experiences of one individual. The links between industrial and scientific advance, Nonconformity in religion and calls for political reform were growing increasingly common as the eighteenth century progressed. This paper attempts to show the centrality of Eccleston's Quaker upbringing to his …

The Life And Times Of Peter Briggins, Simon Dixon

Quaker Studies

This article draws attention to a little known and rarely used historical source, the diary of the early eighteenth-century London Friend Peter Briggins. Four areas of Briggins' life are examined: his business, religious, family and leisure activities. It is suggested that the examination of sources such as diaries and personal correspondence can shed new light on the nature of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Quakerism. In particular, such material can enable the development of a more subtle picture of the relationships that existed between Friends and the communities in which they lived.

Chalk, Cheese, And Cloth: The Settling Of Quaker Communities In Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire, Kay S. Taylor

Quaker Studies

The underlying geology of Wiltshire was responsible for the county's contrasting farming and settlement patterns of the seventeenth century, and gave rise to its distinctive north-south 'chalk and cheese' divide. These particular characteristics, which also shaped the road networks and the location of the cloth-producing industry, played a significant role in determining the way in which the early Quaker movement developed within the county. This paper not only places the development of Wiltshire Quakerism within the context of the county's topography but also identifies the influence of other factors, such as patronage and the presence of other religious groups, on …

From Ploughing The Wilderness To Hedging The Vineyard: Meanings And Uses Of Husbandry Among Quakers, C. 1650-C. 1860, Erin A. Bell

Quaker Studies

The parable of the husbandman was of great significance to Protestants of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for many early modern religious groups developed aspects of their beliefs and identities through its interpretation. This article considers the ways in which re presentations of the husbandman differed between Friends and other Protestants, and particularly evolved within Quakerism from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It considers broad shifts, starting fr om the desire to cultivate the literal and spiritual wilderness described by George Fox, and culminating in the need for spiritual husbandmen to maintain the protective 'hedge' and keep the existing stock, …

Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 10, Issue 2), Simon Dixon

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Hindu Theology And Biology. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa And Contemporary Theory., Ana Laura Funes Maderey

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book review of, Hindu Theology and Biology. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Contemporary Theory by Jonathan B. Edelmann.