The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science.Stenbock well knew that the self-fashioned pose of the decadent was both a defence against a hostile world and an.MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. Whereas Stenbock seems to have been the genuine article, drinking only champagne and burning bank notes if they became soiled. Almost always, as with Oscar Wilde, this image is a carefully cultivated sham: a languid pose masking industry and ambition, not to mention a want of capital. Actually, Stenbock's seeming embodiment of the decadent as author belies his singularity. Though now almost forgotten, Stenbock was arguably "the most decadent of the decadents", as David Tibet suggests in his introduction to this new and most welcome volume of his work. In the 1890s opium took hold he died aged thirty-five in 1895, earning his place in the "Tragic Generation". By the mid-1880s he was an Oxford dropout: living off his vast inheritance while writing poems and stories, with a pet monkey in the crook of his arm and a snake draped about his neck. Born into the European aristocracy in 1860, he spent his early life in England and Germany. The life of Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was short and enigmatic.
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