992 research outputs found
Hester, E. Elizabeth
No full textMemorial Statement for Professor E. Elizabeth Hester, who died in 1979. The memorial statements contained herein were prepared by the Office of the Dean of the University Faculty of Cornell University to honor its faculty for their service to the university
Sonnet on an Air-Balloon
No full textPage from "The Universal Magazine" including a "Sonnet on an Air-Balloon" by Mrs. Piozzi [Hester Lynch].For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/70
Hester, Elizabeth Allen, b. 1956 (FA 43)
No full textFinding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 43. [Flea markets] Collection of typescripts, photographs and cassette tapes concerning the family/personal history and current occupation (flea market seller) of Margie Hawks. Collectioncontains a detailed account of the family history of Mrs. Hawks and their subsistence farming. Project completed by Elizabeth (Beth) Hester for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University
Hester, Elizabeth Allen Beth, b. 1956 (FA 1003)
No full textFinding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1003. Paper written by ElizaBeth Hester titled, “It Was Just a Good Wholesome Social Time: The Revival of Square Dance in Meador, Kentucky During the 1930s.” This paper was written as part of an assignment for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University
100 Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO)
No full textEMCO's goal is to prepare a fully annotated electronic edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. The author and bluestocking salonnière (1718-1800) was the leading woman of letters and artistic patron of her day. Montagu corresponded extensively with leaders of British Enlightenment coteries, such as Edmund Burke, Gilbert West, David Garrick and Horace Walpole, as well as the Bluestocking inner circle – Elizabeth Carter, Sarah Scott, Hannah More, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Frances Burney, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Vesey, and Frances Boscawen
FTAA: What's in It for the South?
No full textNot everyone in the Americas thinks that negotiating an FTAA is desirable. Some argue that the timing of the negotiations is being set by the agenda of the developed countries, particularly the US, and not that of the rest of the region. Others say that negotiating tariff reductions will do little to increase exports. The argument is that non-tariff barriers to trade must be part of the package, or the whole idea is a waste of time. These are just some of the opinions coming from the South. Interestingly, a number of these ideas are coming from Brazil, the hemisphere's most populous country after the US, and clearly a leader in the region. Presidential elections in Brazil took place in the fall of 2002 just prior to an FTAA Ministerial in Quito. In the lead up to the election, the FTAA positions of the opposition candidates, including the eventual winner, were much more protectionist than that of the outgoing government. If the protectionism carries through to official government policy, then the FTAA process will be much more difficult. However, this might just have been electoral talk. This paper will attempt to sort out truth from rhetoric.Brazil, non-tariff barriers, FTAA, South, International Relations/Trade,
Elizabeth Bennet and Hester Prynne from a proto-feminist perspective
No full textEl objetivo de este trabajo es el de mostrar dos ejemplos de personajes femeninos de la literatura que posean personalidades feministas. Para llevarlo a cabo, es necesario, previamente, conocer los orígenes del feminismo y el rol de la mujer a lo largo de la historia. Acto seguido, los personajes de Elizabeth Bennet en Orgullo y Prejuicio y Hester Prynne en La Letra Escarlata serán analizados para demostrar por qué sus comportamientos corresponden con una actitud feminista. Por último, ambos personajes serán comparados brevemente con la finalidad de presentar similitudes y diferencias entre ellos
Mary Hester Gibbs Article
No full textA letter to the editor about Mary Hester Gibbs, the great grandmother of the author, Doris J. Millican
‘A land of slavery and superstition’? Hester Thrale and Elizabeth Montagu in France
No full textThis article examines the separate journeys to France of Hester Thrale (1741-1821) and Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800), comparing their views on superstition. Thrale was interested in Catholicworship and the way of convent life, especially for British expatriates. When Montagu wentto France, the fourth edition of her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear had beenpublished, mounting a wide-ranging attack on Voltaire. She defended Shakespeare’s use of thesupernatural, suggesting that literature drawing on ‘national superstitions’ promoted spiritual andmoral awareness. at both writers were able to challenge rationalist orthodoxies suggests theirsecure faith in modernity
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
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