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Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction m.*~[i/~~ 11111111111111111 0388932 a and accessible way in to a Ilew subject, They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995 and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities, The VSI Library now contains more than 300 volumes-a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology-and will continue to grow in a variety of disciplines, Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher BARTH ES Jonathan Culler AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and B EAUTY Roger Scruton Richard Rathbone BE STS EL L ERS John Sutherland AGNOSTICI SM Robin Le Poidevin TH E BI BLE John Riches AMERICAN IMMIGRATION BI BLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY David A Gerber Eric H. Cline AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTI ES BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee AND ELECTIONS L.SandyMaisel THE BLUES ElijahWald THE AMERICAN TH E BOOI< OF MORMON PRESI DENCY Charles O,Jones Terryl Givens ANARCH 1 SM Colin Ward TH E BRAI N MichaelO'Shea ANCIENT EGYPT lanShaw BRITISH POLITICS AnthonyWright ANCI ENT GREECE Paul Cartledge BU D D H A Michael Carrithers ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas BU D D HI SM Damien Keown ANCI ENT WARFARE BUDDH IST ETH ICS Damien Keown Harry Sidebottom CANCE R Nicholas James ANGELS DavidAlbertJones CAPITALI SM James Fulcher ANGLICANISM MarkChapman CATH 0 L1 C 1S M Gerald O'Collins TH E ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair TH E CE LL Terence Allen and THE ANIMAL KINGDOM Graham Cowling Peter Holland TH E CE LTS Barry Cunliffe ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CHAOS Leonard Smith ANTISEMITISM StevenBeller CH LDREN'S LlTERATURE 1 TH E APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Kimberley Reynolds Paul Foster CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn CHOICE TH EORY Michael Allingham ARCH ITECTU RE Andrew Ballantyne CH RI STIAN ART Beth Williamson ARI STOCRACY William Doyle CH RI STIAN ETH ICS D. Stephen Long AR 1 STOn E Jonathan Barnes CH RI STIAN ITY Linda Woodhead ART HI STORY Dana Arnold CITIZENSH 1 P Richard Bellamy ART TH EORY Cynthia Freeland CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY ATH El SM Julian Baggini Helen Morales AUGUSTINE HenryChadwick CLASSICS Mary Beard and AUTI SM Uta Frith John Henderson TH E AZTECS David Carrasco CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard THE COLD WAR RobertMcMahon ENGELS Terrell Carver COLOf'IIAL LATIN AMERICAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate LI T ER f\TU R E Rolena Adorno U"JVI ROr'!MENTAL ECOI'IO;\\ICS CO;\\!v\UI"iIS;V\ Leslie Ho/mes Stephen Smith THE COMPUTER Darre/Ince EPI DEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci TH E CONQU 1S TADORS 1C S Simon Blackburn Matthew Restall and THE EUROPEAN UNION Fe/ipe Fernandez-Armesto John Pinder and Simon Usherwood CONSCI ENCE Pau/ Strohm éVOLUTION Brian and CONSCIOUSN ESS Susan B/ackmore Deborah Charlesworth CONTEMPORARY ART EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn Julian Stallabrass FASCISM Kevin Passmore CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY FAS H ION Rebecca Arnold Simon Critchley FE M 1N 1S M Margaret Walters COSMOLOGY PeterColes FILM Michael Wood CRITICAL TH EORY FI LM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak Stephen Eric Branner TH E FI RST WORLD WAR TH E CRUSADES ChristopherTyerman Michael Howard CRYPTOGRAPHY FredPiperand FOLK MUSIC MarkSlobin Sean Murphy FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION David Canter Richard Curt Kraus FORENSIC SCI ENCE Jim Fraser DADA AND SURREALISM FOS SIL S Keith Thomson David Hopkins FOUCAULT GaryGutting DARWI N Jonathan Howard FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton TH E DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim FREE WI LL Thomas Pink DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons DERRI DA Simon Glendinning TH E FRUKH REVOLUTION DESCARTES Tom Sorell William Doyle DES ER TS Nick Middleton FR EU D Anthony Storr DES 1G N John Heskett FU N DAMENTALI SM Malise Ruthven DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY GALAXI ES John Gribbin Lewis Wo/pert GAll LEO Stillman Drake DICTIONARI ES Lynda Mugglestone GAME TH EORY Ken Binmore DINOSAURS DavidNorman GAN D HI Bhikhu Parekh DI PLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa GE NI US Andrew Robinson DOCUMENTARY FI LM GE OG RAP H Y John Matthews and Patricia Aufderheide David Herbert DREAMING J.Allan Hobson GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds DRUGS Leslie /versen GERMAN LI TE RATU R E Nicholas Boyle DRUIDS BarryCunliffe GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AndrewBowie EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly GLOBAL CATASTROPH ES Bill McGuire TH E EARTH Martin Redfern GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta Robert C. Allen EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch GLOBAL WARMING MarkMaslin EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger Paul Langford TH E GREAT DEPRESSION AND TH E ELEMENTS Philip Bali TH E NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway EMOTION Dylan Evans HAB ERMAS James Gordon Finlayson EM P1 R E Stephen Howe HEGEL Peter Singer HEl DEGGER Michaellnwood LEADE RS HI P Keith Grint HE RO DOTU 5 Jennifer T Roberts LINCOLN AllenCGuelzo HIEROGL'n'HS PenelopeWilson LII\,JGUISTICS PeterMatthews HII"IDUIS/V\ l<imKnott LITERARY EORY Jonathan (uller HI STORY John Ho Arnold LOCI<E John Dunn E HlsTORY OF AsTRONOMY LOG 1C Graham Priest Michael Hoskin MACH IAVELLI Quentin Skinner THE HlsTORYOF LIFE MADNEsS AndrewSculi Michael Benton MAGIC Owen Davies THE HlsTORY OF TH E MARQU 1S DE SAD E John Phillips MEDICI NE William Bynum MARTI N LUTH ER Scott H. Hendrix THE HlsTORYOFTIME MARX Peter Singer Leofranc Holford-Strevens MATHEMATICS TimothyGowers H IV!A I Ds Alan Whiteside THE MEANING OF LIFE HO BB ES Richard Tuck Terry Eagleton H UMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood MEDICAL ETHICS TonyHope HUMAN RIGHTS AndrewClapham MEDI EVAL BRITAI N John Gillingham H UMAN 1S M Stephen Law and Ralph A. Griffiths HUME A.J.Ayer MEMORY Jonathan 1<. Foster 1D EOLOGY Michael Freeden MICHAEL FARADAY INDIAN PH 1L OSOPHY Sue Hamilton Frank A. J. L. James 1N FORMATION Luciano Floridi MODERN ART David Cottington 1N NOVATION Mark Dodgson and MODERN CHINA RanaMitter David Gann MODERN FRANCE INTELLIGENCE lanJ.Deary Vanessa R. Schwartz INTERNATIONAL MODERN IRELAND SeniaPaseta MIGRATION Khalid Koser MODERN JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Christopher Goto-Jones Paul Wilkinson MODERN LATIN AMERICAN 1S L AM Malise Ruthven LITERATURE 1S LAMIC HI STORY Adam Silverstein Roberto Gonzalez Echevarrfa ITALIAN LITERATURE MODERNISM Christopher Butler Peter Hainsworth and David Robey MOLECULES Philip Bail JE SUS Richard Bauckham MORMONISM JOURNALISM lan Hargreaves Richard Lyman Bushman JU DAI SM Norman Solomon MUHAMMAD JonathanA.C. Brown JU N G Anthony Stevens MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi KABBALAH Joseph Dan MUS 1C Nicholas Cook KAFKA Ritchie Robertson MYTH RobertA. Segal KANT Roger Scruton NATIONALISM Steven Grosby KEY NES Robert Skidelsky NELSON MANDELA KI ERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Elleke Boehmer TH E KORAN Michael Cook NEOLIBERALISM ManfredStegerand LANDSCAPES AND Ravi Roy GEOMORPHOLOGY THE NEW TESTAMENT Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles Luke Timothy Johnson LATE ANTIQUITY GillianCiark THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LAW Raymond Wacks LITERATURE Kyle Keefer THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS NEWTON Robert Iliffe Peter Atkins NI ETZSCH E Michael Tanner NI NETEENTH-CENTURY RACI SM Ali Rattansi BR ITL\I N Christopher Harvie and TH [ REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy H CG. Matthew Jan Westerhoff THE i'!OR(v\,L\i'j COf'!QUEST THE RE FOf?.!v\,L\TIOi·j Peter Marshall George Garnett RE L/\TIVITY Russell Stannar'd NORTH A/v\ERICAN INDIANS RELIGIOI'i IN AMERICA Timothy Beai Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green TH E RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton NORTH ERN 1R ELAN D RENAISSANCE ART Marc Mulholland Geraldine A Johnson NOTH 1N G Frank Close RIS 1< Baruch Fischhoff and John I<advany NUCLEAR POWER Maxwellirvine ROMAN BRITAIN PeterSalway NUCLEAR WEAPONS TH E ROMAN EMPI RE Joseph M. Siracusa Christopher Kelly NUMBERS PeterM.Higgins ROMANTI C 1S M Michael Ferber TH E OLD TESTAMENT RO U 5S E AU Robert Wokler Michael D. Coogan RUSSELL AC Grayling ORGANIZATIONS MarYJoHatch RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly PAGAN 1S M Owen Davies TH E RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close S. A. Smith PAU L E. P. Sanders SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frithand PENTECOSTALISM William 1<.l<ay Eve Johnstone TH E PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri SCHOPENHAUER ChristopherJanaway PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig SCIENCE AND RELIGION PH 1L OSOPHY OF LAW Thomas Dixon Raymond Wacks SCI ENCE FICTION David Seed PHILOSOPHYOF SCIENCE TH E SCI ENTI FIC REVOLUTION Samir Okasha Lawrence M. Principe PH OTOG RA P H Y Steve Edwards SCOTLAN D Rab Houston PLAN ETS David A Rothery SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier P LATO Julia Annas SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer POLITICAL PH 1L OSOPH y SI KHI SM Eleanor Nesbitt David Miller SL EE P Steven W. Lockley and POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Russell G. Foster POSTCOLONIALISM RobertYoung SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler ANTH ROPOLOGY POSTSTRUCTURALI SM John Monaghan and Peter Just Catherine Belsey SOCIALI SM Michael Newman PREHISTORY ChrisGosden SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce PRESOCRATIC PH 1L OSOPHY SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor Catherine Osborne THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell P R 1V AC y Raymond Wacks THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR PROGRESSIVISM WalterNugent Helen Graham PROTESTANTISM MarkANoli SPANISH LITERATURE JO Labanyi PSYCH IATRY Tom Burns SPI NO ZA Roger Scruton PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butlerand STATISTICS DavidJ. Hand Freda McManus STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack PURITANISM FrancisJ. Bremer STUART BRITAIN John Morrill TH E QUAI<ERS Pink Dandelion SU P ER CON DUCTIVITY QUANTUM TH EORY Stephen Blundell John Polkinghorne TE RRORI SM Charles Townshend TH EOLOGY David F. Ford UTOPIANISM LyrnanTowerSargent THOMAS AQUINAS FergusKerr THE VII<INGS Julian Richards TOCQU EVI LLE Harvey C. Mansfield VI RUSES Domthy H Crawford TRAG ED Y Adrian Poole WITCHCRAFT Malcolrn Gaskill THE TUDORS John Guy WITTG EN STE 1N A. C. Grayling TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlrnan Kenneth O. Morgan TH E WORLD TRADE THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION ArnritaNarlikar Jussi M. Hanhirnaki WRITING AND SCRIPT TH EUS. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie Andrew Robinson Available soon: THE HISTORYOF MATHEMATICS PLAGUE Paul Slack Jacqueline Stedall RUSSIAN HISTORY THE U S SUPREME COURT Geoffrey Hosking Linda Greenhouse PROBABI LITY John Haigh For more information visit our website www.oup.comfvsif Peter Hainsworth and David Robey 1 A Very Short Introduction OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFOI{D UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street Oxford 0:\:2 6DP Oxford Uni\ersity Press is a of the of OxforcL It furthers the University's of excellence in scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark ofO;.,.ford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Peter Hainsworth and David Robey 2012 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2012 AlI rights reserved, No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by anl' means, \vithout the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization, Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Depaliment, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in anl' other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Librarl' Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Libl'ary of Congress Control Number: 2012930320 Typeset bl' SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Ashford Colour Press Ltd, Gosport, Hampshire ISBN 978-0-19-923179-9 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Preface xi List of illustrations xiii Introduction History 5 Tradition 22 Theory 44 Politics 60 Secularism 81 Women 99 Further reading 113 Appendix: writers cited 117 Index 121
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