Lord Byron: Arnold and Swinburne

A lecture delivered at the British Academy in 1920, exploring the literary criticism of Byron by two opposing British poets of the Victorian era, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Swinburne.

The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”

"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and…

Lectures on the English Comic Writers

This volume contains an essay on Hogarth, written by the great English essayist and critic, William Hazlitt. This volume is a later printing of Hazlitt's writings, which were first published in 1818.

The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism

In The Dragoman Renaissance, E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters, known as the dragomans, systematically engaged Ottoman elites in the study of the Ottoman Empire—eventually coalescing in the discipline of Orientalism—throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rothman challenges Eurocentric assumptions still pervasive in Renaissance st…

Theories in and of Mathematics Education

Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and perfor…

Theories in and of Mathematics Education

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Teaching and Learning About Whole Numbers in Primary School

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Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education Current Thinking

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How We Read

"What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal th…