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‘An overpowering “itch for writing”’: R.K. Philp, John Denman and the Culture of Self-Improvement
No full textAfter a briefly prominent career in Chartism, Robert Kemp Philp (1819–82) became one of the most widely published authors in Victorian Britain, promoting self-help and self-improvement through education. From a background in magazine journalism, he moved to producing serialised reference works which, when completed, were re-published in book form. This hybridisation of periodical journalism and the non-fiction book created a genre distinct from popular novels, non-fiction and magazines, yet one which was indebted to all three. The best known, Enquire Within Upon Everything (1856) sold almost 1.3 million copies by 1900 and remained in print until 1973. However, Philp has not enjoyed an enduring reputation: almost all his work was published anonymously, while the consumption of popular non-fiction has been largely overlooked in histories of the printed word. John Denman (fl. 1863–9) inhabited the shadier world of horse racing, where he was a high-stakes gambler and promoted off-course betting after it was criminalised. The article establishes a profound connection between the apostle of self-improvement and the mercurial man of the Turf: Denman was Philp’s alias. Their careers are reconstructed and analysed. Social ambition and a desire for fame impelled Philp to be a profligate author; but both he and his alter ego claimed to systematise hitherto opaque, confusing and inaccessible fields of knowledge. Philp took significant risks legally, financially and with his family’s reputation and well-being. This contrasts sharply with the picture of domestic contentment Philp assiduously promoted as a writer, but ideals of self-improvement underpinned them both
The Geography of Jean Rhys: The Impact of National Identity upon the Exiled Female Author
No full textCritical considerations of Jean Rhys’ texts are often intent on geopolitically ‘placing’ the female author. Feeling exiled from her birth country of Dominica and her resident country of England, Rhys felt as if she ‘had no country really now’ (Rhys 1984, 172). National identity seems to have impact upon both public and private practices of Rhys’ authorship. A lack of national identity implies that Rhys is placeless; a concept which is further problematised when considered under Virginia Woolf’s arguments in A Room of One’s Own (1929). If Rhys does not have country, how can she have a private space from which to write? For an exiled female author, private space is an issue pertinent to studies of her authorship. Through the frameworks of A Room of One’s Own and Hélène Cixous’ concept of ‘country in language’, this article demonstrates that Jean Rhys may use her writing practice as an imagined place in which to search for home. For the exiled female author, the textualisation of place and her identity as ‘author’ is an alternative dwelling space
Law’s author, things personated, political representation
No full textThis dissertation proposes a normative theory of political representation grounded in popular sovereignty and positive law, rather than in democracy and efficient labour allocation. The first three chapters assess the contributions to the idea of representation of three early modern thinkers. Hobbes proposes a formal model of authorised action at a distance, but, contrary to a long-standing consensus in political thought, not an actual theory of representation. Rousseau, a well-known opponent of representation, proposes ideas about government, sovereignty, and positive law, which, despite his contrary intentions, form a foundation for a normative theory of representation. Sieyes refines concepts from both to create a more mature practical statement on representation which he attempts to implement in three revolutionary constitutions in France in the 1790's. The next three chapters make an argument connecting representation to law creation. First the concept of a decision is defined, and then abstracted through various levels of political authority and action. Law creation is distinguished from all other classes of authorised political decision making by four unique properties which tie in with problems initially raised by the early modern philosophers regarding popular sovereignty. Various numbers of authorised actors are considered as constituting political bodies credentialed to carry out the relevant decisions identified as meeting the minimal conditions of law, and ultimately only assembly — a body numbering in the hundreds, with a reserved place for making recognised decisions, and a formal connection to expressed popular preferences — meets the conceptual requirements of the class of decisions mooted. The thesis ends with an argument connecting law to representation as the solution to the problem of plurality
Review of \u3ci\u3eTermination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933-1953\u3c/i\u3e By Kenneth R. Philp
No full textAs the title suggests, Termination Revisited evaluates the short-lived policy to terminate the trust relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes. In keeping with his earlier work on this subject, Philp contends that termination grew out of the functional shortcomings of the Indian Reorganization Act, which failed to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse Indian population. After World War II, Indian advocates clamored for a new direction in policy, and BIA Commissioner Dillon S. Myer sought to provide it in the form of termination. Philp argues that Myer\u27s authoritarian tendencies and bureaucratic ineptitude undercut the position of like-minded conservatives and redirected federal policy towards self-determination.
The underlying issue in this debate centered on the true nature of the trust relationship. According to Philp, key Indian leaders believed that federal guardianship emanated from solemn treaties and that protection should never be removed. Members of Congress and BIA officials, on the other hand, believing that indefinite wardship status retarded Indian advancement into the broader society, viewed the trust relationship as a transitory oversight responsibility.
Unfortunately, Philp never clarifies his own position on this issue. His main contention is that vastly changed conditions in the United States required new policy initiatives, especially in light of the failures of the Indian Reorganization Act. Bolstering his argument with a chapter on the disasters that befell the Navajo Tribe in the 19408, he implies, whether intended or not, that the Navajo suffered from the shortsightedness of former Commissioner John Collier\u27s New Deal agenda. Yet the Navajo hardly serve as an adequate example of the failures of the IRA, since they did not ratify it. Moreover, as the author concedes, the Navajos\u27 greatest achievement was to persuade the federal government to design a comprehensive plan to develop reservation resources which resulted in the $88.7 million Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act of 1950. In other words, the solution to the Navajo problem in that era came in the form of massive assistance and continued federal involvement, rather than an effort to sever the trust relationship
Molecular brakes regulating mTORC1 activation in skeletal muscle following synergist ablation
No full textThe goal of the current work was to profile positive (mTORC1 activation, autocrine/paracrine growth factors) and negative [AMPK, unfolded protein response (UPR)] pathways that might regulate overload-induced mTORC1 activation with the hypothesis that a number of negative regulators of mTORC1 will be engaged during a supra-physiological model of hypertrophy. To achieve this, mTORC1-IRS1/2 signaling, BiP/CHOP/IRE1a, and AMPK activation were determined in rat plantaris muscle following synergist ablation (SA). SA resulted in significant increases in muscle mass of ~4% per day throughout the 21 days of the experiment. The expression of the insulin-like growth factors were high throughout the 21d of overload. However, IGF signaling was limited since IRS1 and 2 were undetectable in the overloaded muscle from day 3 to day 9. The decreases in IRS1/2 protein were paralleled by increases in GRB10(Ser501/503) and S6K1(Thr389) phosphorylation, two mTORC1 targets that can destabilize IRS proteins. PKB(Ser473) phosphorylation was higher from 3-6 days and this was associated with increased TSC2(Thr939) phosphorylation. The phosphorylation of TSC2(Thr1345) (an AMPK site) was also elevated whereas phosphorylation at the other PKB site, Thr(1462), was unchanged at 6d. In agreement with the phosphorylation of Thr(1345), synergist ablation led to activation of a1-AMPK during the initial growth phase, lasting the first 9 days before returning to baseline by day 12. The UPR markers CHOP and BiP were elevated over the first 12 days following ablation, whereas IRE1a levels decreased. These data suggest that during supra-physiological muscle loading, at least three potential molecular brakes engage to down-regulate mTORC1
A hand-book of politics for ... /
No full textPublished: -1872, Philp & Solomons; 1874-1878, Solomons & Chapman; 1880-1892, James J. Chapman; 1894, Robert Beall."Being a record of important political action, national and state."Vols. for -1894 cover periods: -July 31, 1892-Aug. 15, 1894.Mode of access: Internet.Description based on: 1872.Available online through HathiTrust Emergency Access Service. Click the HathiTrust button on the right and log in to access this book onlin
Nutritional Strategies to Promote Muscle Mass and Function Across Health Span
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I’m not your friend, buddy: Friendliness without friendship hinders consumer-firm relationship development
No full textYou are what you get: The effects of receiving gifts on reflected appraisals, identity, and future consumption
No full textLaw’s author, things personated, political representation
No full textThis dissertation proposes a normative theory of political representation grounded in popular sovereignty and positive law, rather than in democracy and efficient labour allocation. The first three chapters assess the contributions to the idea of representation of three early modern thinkers. Hobbes proposes a formal model of authorised action at a distance, but, contrary to a long-standing consensus in political thought, not an actual theory of representation. Rousseau, a well-known opponent of representation, proposes ideas about government, sovereignty, and positive law, which, despite his contrary intentions, form a foundation for a normative theory of representation. Sieyes refines concepts from both to create a more mature practical statement on representation which he attempts to implement in three revolutionary constitutions in France in the 1790's.
The next three chapters make an argument connecting representation to law creation. First the concept of a decision is defined, and then abstracted through various levels of political authority and action. Law creation is distinguished from all other classes of authorised political decision making by four unique properties which tie in with problems initially raised by the early modern philosophers regarding popular sovereignty. Various numbers of authorised actors are considered as constituting political bodies credentialed to carry out the relevant decisions identified as meeting the minimal conditions of law, and ultimately only assembly — a body numbering in the hundreds, with a reserved place for making recognised decisions, and a formal connection to expressed popular preferences — meets the conceptual requirements of the class of decisions mooted. The thesis ends with an argument connecting law to representation as the solution to the problem of plurality.This thesis is not currently available via ORA
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