John astley (9 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | John Astley's Collected Essays seek to examine aspects of the sociology of culture - whether in music, design or literature, etc - and the core values transmitted (or not) by these various agencies. Culture and Creativity forms the second of three volumes; the two companion volumes are Liberation & Domestication (which looks at youth policy in the UK) and Professionalism & Practice (which examines what might be termed 'virtuous actions in a difficult world'.) The overall focus of these thought-provoking essays is the sociology of culture, which - through many agencies, and often pervasively - affects all of our lives in ways that we might not realise . . . The essays include: "Design for Living" which discusses the lasting influences of William Morris, and "Soul of a Man Under Socialism" presents a triptych on the ideas of George Orwell, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde. . .and a bio-graphical sketch of the polymath Raymond Williams. The volume is completed with a substantial essay on The Beatles, where the author looks back to the 1960s - and the four young men at the centre of a global phenomenon. . .John Astley is a writer and lecturer - and is a frequent contributor to journals, conferences, and radio talks. As a sociologist of culture, he is the author of three volumes of collected essays: Liberation and Domestication, Culture and Creativity, and Professionalism and Practice - as well as monograph on The Beatles. John Astley is currently working on Herbivores and Carnivores, a timely investigation into cultural values in contemporary society.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 350 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped the original public sector housing ideals in Britain. The essay surveys the cultural and legislative strands in a narrative that reveals the origins of public sector housing with company housing (such as Port Sunlight), the Arts and Crafts movement, with architects such as Baillie Scott, the Garden City pioneer Ebenezer Howard, and urban planners such as Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker. In light of these background perspectives, the author considers (in the the aftermath of the 1914-18 War) the impact of the Housing Acts of the 1920s that empowered local authorities of the day to take action on the housing front with a mission to build "Homes for Heroes". As a case study, the John Astley selects the Merry Oak housing development in Bitterne, Southampton, to examine the practical outcome of the innovative legislation that had been established, and in particular by the 1924 Housing Act of John Wheatley. The author concludes his essay with a brief look at public sector housing in the present era, and finds a landscape of lost opportunities and a failure to learn from the hard-won lessons of the past. Public sector housing, the author finds, now seems to be seen as social housing as a system of 'distributed Welfare'. . . Is it really too late, though, for local government to regain the moral high ground and deliver quality public sector housing? After reading Access to Eden, you will not be able to look at a house - any house - in quite the same way again. JOHN ASTLEY is a sociologist, lecturer, and writer - and a frequent contributor to journals, conferences, and radio talks. As a sociologist of culture, he is the author of three volumes of collected essays: Liberation and Domestication, Culture and Creativity, and Professionalism and Practice - as well as his well-known monograph on The Beatles phenomenon from a cultural studies perspective Why Don't We Do It in the Road? In recent years, his essay Herbivores an Carnivores (2008) looked at the struggle for democratic values in post-War Britain. In 2010, the first edition of Access to Eden appeared as an examination of the rise and fall of public sector housing ideals in Britain. After many years living and working in Oxford, John Astley is now based in Devon.…

8vo, pp. [xvi], '287' (mistake for 289); contemporary panelled calf, rebacked at an early date, red morocco label (some wear to spine and corners, joints cracked). First edition of the author's first book. John Whaley (1710-1745) was born in Norwich, the son of a tradesman. He was educated at Eton, and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a reputation as 'a man of genius and a poet', and gathered around him a set of bright young men; an acquaintance, William Cole, later described Whaley as living 'a dissolute and debauched kind of life', which probably suggests that he was gay. At some point early on Whaley had formed a connection with the Walpole family, and in 1735 he was appointed tutor to Horace Walpole, who thought highly of him, and shared his interest in connoisseurship. 'Whaley was a socially ambitious man, and his journal indicates that he was able to gain an entrée into some of the most illustrious houses in England. He never married' (Oxford DNB). This collection of poems was published just after Whaley received his undergraduate degree. 'An accomplished, witty performance in a variety of styles and measures. The poems range from formal panegyrics and imitations of Greek and Latin authors, and versified Biblical stories in the manner of Prior, to informal epistles to friends, and fables in Dryden's style. Some of the material reveals Whaley's connection with his home city, for instance a prologue and epilogue for a Norwich school play. A number of poems indicate (or feign) familiarity with Venice and Rome, and an interest in art history, notably the 'Essay on Painting' in couplets' (Oxford DNB again). Included in this volume, without acknowledgement, are two youthful poems by George Lyttelton, Whaley's contemporary at Eton and Oxford, both of which had already been separately published. i.e. Blenheim (1728; Foxon L330) and An Epistle to Mr. Pope, from a Young Gentleman at Rome, (1730; Foxon L331). Included as well are nine poems (pp. 177-220) identified simply as having been contributed 'by a friend'. These were in fact by a classmate at King's College, Sneyd Davies (1709-1769), a curious and seemingly diffident young man who went on to become a domestic chaplain in Lichfield to Frederick Cornwallis, later Archbishop of Canterbury. The first of the poems is an imitation of an ode of Horace, called 'To a Gentleman in Love with a Negro Woman'. 'Sneyd Davies was a poor horseman, except on a chamber-horse; he was fond of smoking his pipe, and had a passion for bowling. He was never married, and was singularly simple, modest, and unworldly' (Oxford DNB). Davies never collected his poems, but many of them were reprinted in a long rambling biography by George Hardinge, published as part of Nichols's Illustrations (1817). Whaley's volume was published by subscription; a ten-page list of subscribers contains almost 700 names, including 'Horatio Walpole'. This copy is signed on the title-page by Spark Molesworth, whose name appears in the subscriber's list as a student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (along with Hender Molesworth, of Clare Hall); on the front flyleaf is the shelf mark, "Pope book 5, shelf 3," which at least one later bookseller appears to have misinterpreted as indicating that this was actually Pope's own copy. Later bookplate of Oliver Brett, Viscount Esher. Foxon p. 888. …

8vo in fours, engraved title page and pp. xxxvii, [iii], 80, xxx, [6] index; title slightly spotted, but a good copy, in early calf, rebacked. A pirated edition, reprinted from the genuine quarto (Foxon P773), which appeared in early April 1729, published by Lawton Gilliver and Anne Dodd, although only the latter's name appeared in the imprint. In early May, Gilliver brought a chancery suit against the four people involved in this piracy, and also publicly attacked them for omitting important additions that were made to his own octavo edition (P779), which was advertised for sale on 17 April. The pirates duly responded by printing a leaf of addenda, which is found in a later issue of this edition (P775). Foxon P774; Griffith 216. It is not clear if 'A. Dob' on the title page is a deliberate error.…