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Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
A scholarly catalogue raisonné: George Wilson and the engraved fan leaf design 1795-1801
No full textABSTRACT
This research thesis offers a small but comprehensive scholarly catalogue raisonné of the surviving unmounted fan leaves designed and printed by the late eighteenth-century English fan leaf engraver, George Wilson (active before 1795-after 1801). Wilson’s extant output of nineteen fan leaf engravings published in London now exist in storage within the Prints and Drawing Department of the British Museum, after the receipt of two bequests from Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895) in the late nineteenth century. The individual fan leaf designs discussed in this catalogue raisonné include a number of reprinted fan leaves from the same engraving design.
There follows a chronological catalogue listing, and discussion of, all the different fan leaves designed by Wilson, collected by Lady Schreiber and subsequently bequeathed to the British Museum. The variety of subject matter depicted on these fan leaf designs underscore the differing types of themes Wilson engaged with in his engraved production. Analysis of the three main areas of Wilson’s fan leaf design work, female ‘advisory’ fan leaves, overtly satirical, and nationalistic fan leaves, reveal that Wilson’s fan leaf imagery engaged, to a great extent, with cultural concerns about the turbulences of late eighteenth-century life in London, as well as effectively modernising aesthetic precedents and contemporary graphic design. In particular, it becomes apparent that Wilson’s fan leaves effectively engage with late eighteenth-century feminine pre-occupations of choosing the right moral path to happiness, moderation in daily life, marriage and bearing children, in addition to illustrating the perceived multitude of follies translated from contemporary literary and pictorial sources. One of the predominant concerns in his catalogue of work is revealed to be the age old theme of the cycle of birth, reproduction and death, alongside a sustained pictorial focus upon feminine concerns and pre-occupations
The effect of E. coli endotoxin on the metabolic responses of Wistar rats
No full textEscherichia coli endotoxin is a potent stimulator of IL-1 and cachectin/TNF production from macrophages. Both IL-1 and cachectin/TNF have been implicated in muscle protein loss, acute phase protein synthesis, fever, depressed serum zinc, and elevate serum corticosterone concentration. The source of mobilized amino acids during infection and inflammation is believed to come from muscle proteolysis. Data presented in this thesis clearly indicated that the relative contribution to the negative N balance by skin and bone should not be neglected. The reduction in fractional rates of protein synthesis measured by injection of flooding doses of [3H]-phenylalanine in the endotoxin was in the order of skin (abdomen) > bone > muscle. These also run parallel with the reduction of protein content. Total liver protein synthesised per day in the endotoxin-treated animals was increased. Some preparations of E. coli endotoxin (phenol and TCA extract) (ED) are hypothermic and enhanced greater reduction in food intake and body weight loss; while the butanol extracts of endotoxin (ES) caused fever, produced less anorexia and body weight loss. The reason for these differences is not clear but may be due to the production of potent shock mediator, cachectin/TNF and/or stimulation on the sympatho-adrenal nervous sytem. The latter action may be modulated by protaglandins since indomethacin prevented ED-induced hypothermia. Administration of the β-adrengeric blocker propranolol, blunted the ES-induced hyperthermia and delayed the recovery of ED-induced hypothermia. The contribution of heat from non-thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue is unimportant in the production of fever since the binding of [^3H]-GDP to BAT mitochondria in both hyperthermic and hypothermic animals did not differ from that of the saline-treated animals. The present investigation suggests the existence of the diurnal variation in the body temperature responses to endotoxin. Both ES and ED produced hypothermia. Furthermore, reversed the lighting cycles (6pm-6am) (RL) affected : serum zinc, corticosterone, except for tissue protein loss. Both ES and ED produced hypothermia in the RL-adopted rats. The production and actions of IL-1 and cachectin/TNF may be affected by dietary fatty acids concentration and composition. Feeding rats with diets either enriched with or supplemented by 30g/kg, 90g/kg and 200g/kg of hydrogenated coconut oil (HCO); or by the 9og/Kg fish oil (FO) abolished most of the metabolic responses to ED injection. Both HCO and FO could influence the response via a reduction in prostaglandins and leukotrienes by reducing the formation of arachidonic acid (AA) precursor of eicosanoids. Fatty acids composition analysis from the PC fraction of the spleen showed a decreased amount of AA in the order of FO > HCO > CO. Pretreatment with the cycloxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin blocked body weight loss, prevented protein loss from peripheral tissues, and affected the elevation of serum corticosterone; whereas the lipoxygenase inhibitor AA861 inhibited ED-induced hypozincemia, and muscle cathepsin B activity. Total liver protein was unaffected by inhibitors, and HCO or FO feeding. T ese data suggested that many of the endotoxin-induced metabolic changes are controlled by metabolites of AA, and that the acute-phase proteins synthesis by the liver is independent of eicosanoids production. Dietary fats manipulation moderated the metabolic responses to E. coli endotoxin through both pathways. (D74421/87)</p
FAN 2002: um modelo neuro-fuzzy para reconhecimento de padrões
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.Nesta tese é apresentado FAN 2002 - free associtive neurons - como uma abordagem neuro-fuzzy para reconhecimento supervisionado de padrões. Aspectos foram modificados desde a sua publicação inicial, em 1997: a criação de células para a combinação de características é substituida pela inclusão de uma característica extra que representa a combinação das demais; a forma de realizar a penalização em caso de erro é modificada; a inicialização dos neurônios é realizada com valores aleatórios; um hedge é usado no teste de um padrão. Os resultados em aplicações são mostrados: no problema de classificação de cromossomos, a comparação com os resultados o obtidos por outros métodos apresentados ilustra o desenvolvimento do modelo desde as suas primeiras implementações; A aplicação do modelo em jogos de empresas na construção de um agente; Os conceitos de FAN na construção dos Mapas FAN e a solução do problema do XOR. A apresentação de FAN 2002 visa proporcionar aos interessados na aplicação de soluções em reconhecimento de padrões uma ferramenta útil e de uso geral.A conclusão do trabalho mostra o resumo dos avanços obtidos no desenvolvimento de FAN e aponta para o futuro do método uma possibilidade interdisciplinar de subsidiar pesquisadores de outras áreas a resolverem os seus próprios problemas de classificação e reconhecimento
Consumption outside the market: an ethnography of consumer resistance among football fans
No full textThis study analysed football fandom utilising an ethnographic approach. Football fandom was selected as a research site for the study because it offered scope to explore for the presence of non-traditional forms of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1984).
It also offered scope to explore the extent to which fandom was a form of sacred consumption (Belk et a1 1989). Ethnography was selected as an appropriate methodology for several reasons. It provided the opportunity to develop a holistic perspective on fandom and it further provided scope to utilise an emergent design approach in the development of a conceptual understanding of fandom. What emerged fiom the ethnographic investigation of two separate football fan communities was that consumers experience and maintain a sense of the sacred by operating their own unofficial markets in competition with the official market in fanrelated goods and services. They also maintain localised systems of cultural capital which allow them to socially construct and maintain a sense of hierophany within their own communities (Belk et a1 1989), in opposition to the homogenised fan identity proffered by the official market. These systems of cultural capital not only allow fans to experience the sacred but also facilitate their sense of relationship with like-minded others in self-selecting communities of shared taste
Creative involution : overcoming man : becoming-woman
No full textThe thesis is written in the pursuit of true difference. Its contention is that true
difference has been obscured by a model of difference which is dialectical in nature.
Western thought has been largely informed by a metaphysic in which difference has
been subordinated to the One and the Identical and which can only ever return as the
Same.
In utilising the writings of Foucault, Deleuze, Deleuze-Nietzsche, Deleuze-Bergson
and Bergson, this thesis strives to find for a new image of thought, that can go beyond
representation through which true difference can be known.
The thesis is framed in the context of the problematic of 'the death of man' as that
which Foucault formulates as eternally returning as the Same. Foucault raises the
question of Man's disappearance and in doing so also opens up the question of what
might come after Man. It will be argued, that what comes after man, that which
Nietzsche has named the Overman, is the becoming-woman of man.
The aim is to show that becoming-woman, once freed from the representational
system, can be thought of as an active, affirmative death through which difference can
be thought in-itself as the continual movement of vital life The nature of a
Becoming-woman is, in turn, framed in the context of Deleuze's search for difference
in-itself and, Bergson's philosophy of nature.
It will be argued, in conclusion, that becoming-woman is the rebirth of the eternal
return of difference which, in man, reaches into the consciousness of self
Cost effective combined axial fan and throttling valve control of ventilation rate
No full textThis paper is concerned with Proportional-Integral-Plus (PIP) control of ventilation rate in mechanically ventilated agricultural buildings. In particular, it develops a unique fan and throttling valve control system for a 22m3 test chamber, representing a section of a livestock building or glasshouse, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Here, the throttling valve is employed to restrict airflow at the outlet, so generating a higher static pressure difference over the control fan. In contrast with previous approaches, however, the throttling valve is directly employed as a second control actuator, utilising airflow from either the axial fan or natural ventilation. The new combined fan/valve configuration is compared with a commercially available PID-based controller and a previously developed scheduled PIP design, yielding a reduction in power consumption in both cases of up to 45%
The role of female manual workers in the electronics industry in 1999 and 2004.
No full textby Fan Siu-man, Simon [and] Kwok Ng Doi-yee, Daisy.Bibliography: leaves 79-81Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 198
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