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'City of Big Shoulders' links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the 21st century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colourful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called 'the wild-garlic place' burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city?

Chicago (Ill.) --- History. --- Chicago, Daley, Cappone, Addams, Haymarket, railroad, gangster, Dearborn, Pullman, Chicago Fire.

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The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental that religion seeks to overthrow. In this book, Bradley and Tate offer a genealogy of the New Atheist Novel: where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future. What is it? How does it dramatise the war between belief and non-belief? To what extent does it represent a genuine ideological alternative to the religious imaginary or does it merely repeat it in secularised form? This fascinating study offers an incisive critique of this contemporary testament of literary belief and unbelief.

Religion and literature. --- Atheism and literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- McEwan, Ian --- Amis, Martin --- Rushdie, Salman --- Pullman, Philip, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion and literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- McEwan, Ian (1948-....) --- Amis, Martin (1949-....) --- Rushdie, Salman (1947-....) --- Pullman, Philip (1946-....) --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle

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“The books are true while reality is lying…” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.

Fantasy fiction --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Pratchett, Terry --- Pullman, Philip, --- Miéville, China --- Mʹevilʹ, Chaĭna --- МЬевиль, Чайна --- פולמן, פיליפ, --- Pratchett, Terence David John --- Пратчетт, Терри --- Pratchett, Terri --- פראצ'ט, טרי --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri --- Пратчэт, Тэры --- Pratchėt, Tėry --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on --- Пратчет, Тери --- Pratchet, Teri --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn --- テリー・プラチェット --- プラチェット, テリー --- Purachetto, Terī --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon --- Прачет, Тери --- Pračet, Teri --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon --- Претчетт, Террі --- Pretchett, Terri --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on --- 泰瑞·普萊契 --- 普萊契, 泰瑞 --- Pulaiqi, Tairui --- Bradshaw, Georgina --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pratchett, Terence David John, --- Пратчетт, Терри, --- Pratchett, Terri, --- פראצ'ט, טרי, --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri, --- Пратчэт, Тэры, --- Pratchėt, Tėry, --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон, --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on, --- Пратчет, Тери, --- Pratchet, Teri, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων, --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn, --- テリー・プラチェット, --- プラチェット, テリー, --- Purachetto, Terī, --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон, --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon, --- Прачет, Тери, --- Pračet, Teri, --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон, --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon, --- Претчетт, Террі, --- Pretchett, Terri, --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон, --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on, --- 泰瑞·普萊契, --- 普萊契, 泰瑞, --- Pulaiqi, Tairui, --- History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- Kearns, Patrick