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The feminization of fame from Rousseau to de Staël
No full textThis thesis seeks to address the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding what I will suggest was the reconceptualization of fame in the second half of the eighteenth and the first two decades of the nineteenth centuries. The only previous analyses of celebrity in this period by Leo Braudy and by Frank Donoghue have claimed categorically that even though a democratization of fame occurred in this period only men had sufficient access to the fame machine and thus to the experience of the frenzy of renown. While I argue that this period witnessed the birth of modern concepts of celebrity, I will suggest that a modernization necessarily entailed a feminization of fame.
Traditionally, heroic self-sacrifice had led to assured immortality, but with the rapidly expanding print culture of this period, celebrity was often instantaneous, achieved during a lifetime rather than a lifetime achievement. With the dissemination of the media, the rise of newspaper and periodicals and thus, more importantly, the increasing visibility of the celebrity as a person to be admired and emulated came the means to seduce an eager audience by manipulating one’s career or personal image. Opening with an examination of the confessional politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who sought and found a desiring audience for this outpouring of private sensibility and thus initiated a discourse of fame which no longer relied upon the classical stoicism apparent since Ancient Rome, I will investigate how women writers not only ‘puffed’ themselves in the press, but actively engaged in constructing distinct authorial personae in and through their writings. Far from cowering anonymously in the shades, women writers were actively seeking and achieving the limelight, attaining a level of cultural centrality previously thought by critics such as Braudy and Donoghue to be unattainable. Embracing the public and publicity itself, they took advantage of the shifting mechanics of celebrity to place their writings and, ultimately, themselves, on the rostrum, more than eager to gain literary laurels
Rural settlement and population in England between 1676 and 1851: an experiment in historical geography
No full textAny observant traveller will see within Britain contrasts in rural settlement, with some landscapes dominated by villages and others by single farmsteads. Such contrasts were observed by topographers as early as the Elizabethan period and are deep rooted. This study examines on a very broad scale, in part national, in part local regional, the linkages between settlement and population. To complicate matters, population is examined at three dates, 1676, 1801 and 1851. This demands that the analyses consider correlations between the real levels of population, the spatial patterns within these distributions, the dynamics of change and the evolving landscape of settlement. Both synthesis and analysis are involved: the synthesis of work by other scholars to generate a national view in the first part of the study, and in the second part, the analysis of several local regional contexts. The conclusions are summarised in a model, highlighting the broad through time links between settlement and population
Meine Reise nach Frankreich in den Jahren 1800 und 1801
No full textVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Berlin, bey Friedrich Maurer 1801.Frontisp., Ill
Victor Adam (illustrateur 1801-1866) : signature “V. Adam” [1854]
No full textVictor Adam (illustrateur 1801-1866) : signature “V. Adam” [1854
Terragong swamp not long since covered by the sea, New South Wales [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK762/2.; Inscription: "Terragong Swamp not long since covered by the sea. The land very rich." -- In ink.; In: Drawings of New South Wales, 1840-46.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an3678271
The Champagne River & Lion Couchant Mountain [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on mount.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK726/49.; In his: Drawings of South America, Mauritius and other places.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an3700558
[Seascape] [picture] /
No full textRex Nan Kivell Collection NK762/71.; In his: Drawings of South America, Mauritius and other places
Victor Adam (illustrateur 1801-1866) : signature “V. Adam” [1854]
No full textVictor Adam (illustrateur 1801-1866) : signature “V. Adam” [1854
Political faction and the formulation of foreign policy: Britain, 1806-7
No full textIn 1801, William Pitt the Younger, resigned as prime minister after seventeen years in office, to be replaced by Henry Addington, whose most notable act in office was to conclude peace with France. Pitt's resignation and the Peace of Amiens destroyed the huge majority that had characterised Pittite government, as four major political factions developed where there had previously only been the rump of an opposition. Pitt's cousin. Lord Grenville, angered at the terms of the peace, strongly opposed Addington, and eventually concerted with Charles Fox in an anti- Addingtonian 'junction'. Following Pitt's death in January 1806, Grenville was invited by the king to form a ministry, and in forming the Ministry of All the Talents, he combined his own supporters with those of Fox and Addington, to form a broad- based administration. Central to the problems facing the Talents was that of foreign policy, an issue on which the component factions had hitherto disagreed violently. Fox, now Foreign Secretary, made a concerted effort to conclude peace with France, and a British representative was present in Paris for this purpose from June to October 1806. These negotiations failed for reasons outside of the government’s control, but serious divisions were later to emerge over policy to\yards the Continent, where war was resumed in October 1806. Two conflicting strategies of colonial conquest and Continental engagement were put forward by their protagonists, resulting in deadlock and disharmony. This thesis will argue that despite the incongruous mixture of men who made up the Ministry of All the Talents, factional divisions were not primarily responsible for the lack of a vigorous and aggressive foreign policy. Instead, the pre-1806 stances of the Foxites and Grenvillites were forced to be remoulded by the changing European situation, and their eventual policy was not based on ideological considerations, but rather an uncertain and confused reaction to events that they could only dimly comprehend
Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome [series]
No full textDetail of Doric capital, Temple of Poseidon, Paestum (plate 10); Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Les temples de Paestum. Restauration exécutée en 1829 par Henri Labrouste Publication info: [Paris Firmin-Didot] [1877] Physical descrip: 16p. Series title: (Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome.) Source: University of Toronto Libraries; http://main.library.utoronto.ca/ (accessed 1/12/2008
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