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A Passage to India can be regarded as a historical document, a philosophical statement and a work of conscious literary art. Its criticism has got to focus on its political~ ethical and metaphysical implications as well as such features as its comedy, characterization, symbolism, organization and esthetic qualities. ; N/A

AbstractThis chapter offers an interpretation of the Henry George Theorem (HGT) that brings it squarely into the study and analysis of entrepreneurship somewhat loosening its ties to the subfield of urban economics. I draw on the pioneering work of Spencer Heath whose insights about the viability of proprietary communities were developed further by his grandson, Spencer Heath MacCallum who, in 1970, recognized that private real estate developers sometimes make their capital gains (mostly) by creating useful public spaces that others enjoy. I also draw inspiration from Fred Foldvary's effort in 1994 to synthesize the pubic goods problem in economics with the Henry George Theorem in urban economics. While the real estate owner—developer does emerge on my pages in a somewhat more favourable light than as originally portrayed by Henry George in his Progress and Poverty in 1879, I offer a realistic appraisal of the duplicitous behaviours required of such entrepreneurs. in the context of the modern regulatory state. Real estate development remains a 'hot button' item in local politics, and real estate developers must become genuine 'political entrepreneurs' if they are to complete their projects in a timely way and capture business profits. It is a complicated story that the HGT helps make intelligible in terms of human action.

Intro -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Conservatism: Interpretations, Ideas, and Principles -- Is Conservatism an Ideology? -- The Birth of Conservatism -- The Principles of Conservatism -- Types of Conservatism -- The Differences between Reactionaries and Conservatives -- The Differences between Conservatives, Liberals, and Libertarians -- Chapter Two: British Conservatism -- The Oxford Movement -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) -- Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) -- John Ronald Reuel Tolkein (1892-1973) -- Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) -- Roger Scruton (1944- ) -- Chapter Three: German, Austrian, and Prussian Conservatism -- Austro-Hungarian Empire and Austria -- Prussia, the German Empire, and Germany -- Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768-1854) -- Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) -- Johann Joseph von Görres (1776-1848) -- Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861) -- Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) -- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) -- Stefan George (1868-1933) -- Thomas Mann (1875-1955) -- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876-1925) -- Robert Michels (1876-1936) -- Othmar Spann (1878-1950) -- Franz von Papen (1879-1969) -- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) -- Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) -- Ernst Niekisch (1889-1967) -- Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) -- Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) -- Leo Strauss (1899-1973) -- Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) -- Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976) -- Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner (1939-2011) -- Chapter Four: French Conservatism -- Counterrevolutionaries -- Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) -- Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801) -- Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald (1754-1840) -- François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) -- Hugues Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854) -- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889) -- Louis Veuillot (1813-1883).

This thesis discusses Irish Modernist poetry written between 1905 and 1970, specifically the poetry of Joseph Campbell (1879-1944), Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967), Denis Devlin (1908-1959) and Brian Coffey (1905-1995). All four poets have been largely neglected in criticism until a growth of interest encouraged by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce's New Writers' Press during the 1970s. J.C.C. Mays, Stan Smith, Susan Schreibman, Terence Brown, Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis published subsequent critical support during the '80s and '90s. My research aims to highlight poetry previously omitted from the canon of Irish literature, those with connections to British or continental European literary movements as well as poetry by women writers and writers from the North. Part of this exploration of Irish Poetic Modernisms involves an investigation of intersections between poetic modernisms and Irish war poetry and of depictions of Irish masculinity in the poetry of Devlin and Coffey. My discussion of Campbell's poetry focuses on links between the early regional modernism of his poetry and later Irish modernist poetry, including his participation in the Ulster Literary Theatre, with the Literary Revival community in Dublin and his association with the proto-Imagist movement in London. My examination of connections between Irish war poetry and Irish modernism allows me to discuss the writing of several underrecognized Irish poets who are contemporaries and near contemporaries of the main subjects of my thesis. Thomas MacGreevy's poetry is the most clear case study of the links between Irish modernist poetry and poetry about Ireland's participation in the Great War. MacGreevy's writing reveals his multiple allegiances: he both elegizes and challenges the increasing cultural inhibitions of Free State Ireland. Denis Devlin's poetic portrayals of Ireland reveal his rejection both of the Literary Revival's fascination with Celticism and of Dublin's literary community while upholding tradition poetic gender roles. My research explores representations of masculinity and Irish politics, including heroic masculine imagery, in the long poems of Devlin and Coffey. My discussion of Brian Coffey considers the importance of the figure of the "poet as maker" to his writing and his relationship with Ireland during his long writing career. I also consider his role as the editor and executor of Devlin's literary estate and the impact that had on both the latter's posthumous reputation and Coffey's later writing.