214 research outputs found
Document signed by Justice of the Peace and Old 300 colonist George Huff
No full textHUFF, GEORGE ( - 1848). Autograph document signed, County of Austin, January 23, 1841. Summons signed by Huff as Justice of the Peace. Huff settled in Texas in 1824. 2pp
George Eliot's works.
No full text"Limited to 500 copies, no. 421."Spine title; each volume has special t.p.[v.1]. Adam Bede -- [v.2-3] Daniel Deronda -- [v.4]. Miscellaneous essays. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. The veil lifted. Brother Jacob -- [v.5]. Felix Holt, the radical -- [v.6-7]. Middlemarch -- [v.8]. Mill on the Floss -- [v.9]. Complete poems / with introductory notes by Matthew Browne -- [v.10]. Romola, pt. 1 -- [v.11]. Romola, pt. 2. Silas Marner -- [v.12]. Scenes of clerical life. Life of the author / by George Willis Cooke.Mode of access: Internet.MAIN; PR4650.E86 1886: "Limited to five hundred copies, no. 421.
The works of George Eliot.
No full text"Limited to 500 copies, no.44."At head of title Édition de luxe.[v.1] Adam Bede.--[v.2-3] Daniel Deronda.--[v.4-5] Middlemarch.--[v.6] Mill on the Floss.--[v.7] Romola, pt.1.--[v.8] Romola, pt.2. Silas Marner.--[v.9] Felix Holt, the radical.--[v.10] Complete poems, with introd. notes by Matthew Browne.--[v.11] Miscellaneous essays. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. The veil lifted. Brother Jacob.--[v.12] Scenes of clerical life. Life of the author, by George Willis Cooke.Mode of access: Internet
George Wallingford Noyes Papers (1848-1854): The Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library Author: Noyes, George Wallingford
No full textThis item was originally scanned as part of the Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection which consists of digital surrogates for materials that were part of a joint study involving Digital Preservation between Cornell University and the Xerox Corporation. Begun in 1990, a process was developed where brittle and decaying books were digitally scanned, using prototype equipment co-developed by Cornell and the Xerox Corporation (the CLASS scanner) and stored as 600dpi, bitonal TIFF images, compressed with ITU Group 4 compression, on digital platters on an EPOCH "jukebox" digital server.. Facsimiles of these books were generated and the books were returned to the shelves. The images were available online using specially-developed clients in Unix, MAC and PC platforms. These clients were developed at Library Technology at Cornell University by William Turner III, David Fielding and Chris Stuart.Because of the nature of this item, it could not be processed using Accessibility tools. A text transcript has been provided for accessibility.The Oneida Community was a religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed in "perfectionism" and that since Jesus had returned in 70AD, they were to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, be free of sin and perfect in this world. The Oneida Community practiced communalism (sharing property and possessions), including in sexual relations. There were other Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. This is a collection of letters from the Syracuse University archives compiled by Mark Weimer
Rooted in all its story, more is meant than meets the ear : a study of the relational and revelational nature of George MacDonald's mythopoeic art
No full textScholars and storytellers alike have deemed George MacDonald a great mythopoeic writer, an exemplar of the art. Examination of this accolade by those who first applied it to him proves it profoundly theological: for them a mythopoeic tale was a relational medium through which transformation might occur, transcending boundaries of time and space. The implications challenge much contemporary critical study of MacDonald, for they demand that his literary life and his theological life cannot be divorced if either is to be adequately assessed. Yet they prove consistent with the critical methodology MacDonald himself models and promotes. Utilizing MacDonald’s relational methodology evinces his intentional facilitating of Mythopoesis. It also reveals how oversights have impeded critical readings both of MacDonald’s writing and of his character. It evokes a redressing of MacDonald’s relationship with his Scottish cultural, theological, and familial environment – of how his writing is a response that rises out of these, rather than, as has so often been asserted, a mere reaction against them. Consequently it becomes evident that key relationships, both literary and personal, have been neglected in MacDonald scholarship – relationships that confirm MacDonald’s convictions and inform his writing, and the examination of which restores his identity as a literature scholar. Of particular relational import in this reassessment is A.J. Scott, a Scottish visionary intentionally chosen by MacDonald to mentor him in a holistic Weltanschauung. Little has been written on Scott, yet not only was he MacDonald’s prime influence in adulthood, but he forged the literary vocation that became MacDonald’s own. Previously unexamined personal and textual engagement with John Ruskin enables entirely new readings of standard MacDonald texts, as does the textual engagement with Matthew Arnold and F.D. Maurice. These close readings, informed by the established context, demonstrate MacDonald’s emergence, practice, and intent as a mythopoeic writer
Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
No full textItinerant lecturers declaiming upon free trade, Chartism, temperance, or anti-slavery could be heard in market places and halls across the country during the years 1837-60. The power of the spoken word was such that all major pressure groups employed lecturers and sent them on extensive tours. Print historians tend to overplay the importance of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the itinerant lecturer was the most effective medium through which to reach those with limited access to books, newspapers or national political culture. Orators crucially united their dispersed audiences in national struggles for reform, fomenting discussion and coalescing political opinion, while railways, the telegraph and expanding press reportage allowed speakers and their arguments to circulate rapidly.
Understanding of political oratory and public meetings has been skewed by over-emphasis upon the hustings and high-profile politicians. This has generated two misconceptions: that political meetings were generally rowdy and that a golden age of political oratory was secured only through Gladstone’s legendary stumping tours. However, this thesis argues that, far from being disorderly, public meetings were carefully regulated and controlled offering disenfranchised males a genuine democratic space for political discussion. Its detailed research into Yorkshire and the North East, demonstrates both the growth of popular political speechmaking and the emergence of a class of professional lecturers. It identifies a paradigm shift from classical oratory to more populist styles of speaking, as more humble speakers took to the platform; and it argues that through the growth of popular political oratory the platform had been rehabilitated by the 1860s and the lecture format commercialize
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium : being notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe with his North American Indian collection /
No full textA reissue of the 3d edition of Catlin's notes of eight years' travels, pub. London 1848.Mode of access: Internet
Newbigging Pottery Musselburgh, Scotland c 1800 - c 1930 Ceramic Resource Disc 1
No full textThe Newbigging ceramic material, listed and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (FD 2004.1.1 to 507. This small and fairly commonplace ceramic assemblage derives from a pottery of 19th and early 20th century date. The shards have been divided by fabric type, form and decoration into 6 folders and 58 files. The majority of the pottery was recovered during a small rescue excavation and salvage operation funded by Historic Scotland. Most of the on site work was carried out by Alison McIntyre, Alan Radley and the author over a three week period at the end of December 1987 and beginning of January 198
George Sand, a didactic aesthetic of the novel (1840-1848)
No full textDans une période de division du champ littéraire entre défenseurs de l’art pour l’art et partisans de l’art social, George Sand choisit de mettre l’écriture du roman au service du peuple et d’une diffusion des idées progressistes. La quête d’une formule romanesque adéquate au désir d’exercer un magistère spirituel sur ses contemporains conduit George Sand, au cours de la décennie 1840, à soumettre le roman à diverses hybridations et innovations. Cette recherche en écriture invite à la fois à réévaluer le rôle de l’œuvre sandienne dans l’essor du genre romanesque au cours de la première moitié du dix-neuvième siècle et à envisager la romancière comme une théoricienne du roman et de la littérature. La tension entre le discours idéologique et le récit de fiction, respectivement identifiés par les termes « plaidoyer » et « roman », apparaît comme le point névralgique de l’esthétique didactique qu’elle invente au gré de ses expérimentations successives. Entre contrôle de la réception et liberté interprétative, la volonté de délivrer un enseignement engage le renouvellement des positions énonciatives de l’auteur et de sa relation avec les lecteurs, ainsi qu’une réorientation de l’écriture vers un plus grand symbolisme, nommé poésie. De manière solidaire aux choix esthétiques opérés s’élabore progressivement une nouvelle identité auctoriale qui, en dépit des nombreuses résistances opposées aux femmes qui écrivent, conjugue autorité et responsabilité de l’écrivain.In a context where the literary field was split between the proponents of art for art’s sake and the supporters of social art, George Sand chose to put the writing of novels at the service of the people and to use it to promote progressist ideas.Throughout the 1840s, the quest for novel format that would be in adequation with her desire to perform a spiritual magisterium on her contemporary led George Sand to subject the novel to different hybridisations and innovations. This research on writing, invites one to both reassess the role that George Sand’s oeuvre had on the rise of the novel as a genre during the first half of the nineteenth century, but also to consider the novelist as a theorist on the novel and on literature. The tension between ideological discourse and fiction narrative, respectively termed “plaidoyer” and “roman”, appears as the nerve centre of the didactic aesthetic that she invents throughout her successive experimentations. Between a control of the reception and interpretative liberties, the wish to impart a teaching involves a renewal of the enunciative posture of the author and of her relation to her readers, as well as a reorientation of the writing towards more symbolism, or poetry. In conjunction with the aesthetic choices made, a new authorial identity is gradually developed, which, despite the strong opposition to women who write, combines authority with writer’s responsibility
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