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"The first antiquary of his country": Robert Riddell's extra-illustrated and annotated volumes of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Scotland
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The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose
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The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous Prose
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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The Writings of Thomas Pringle
Get PDFThomas Pringle (1789-1834) is remembered as a poet, journalist, travel writer, editor,
political campaigner and anti-slavery activist, yet a thorough critical survey of his
writings, including his poetry, journalism, letters, narratives and anti-sIavery
propaganda, is lacking in Pringle scholarship. This dissertation undertakes the task of
a critical survey, in order to bring the diverse range of his writings to the attention of a
wider audience, and to lay the foundations for future critical interpretation of Pringle's
work. Work published by Pringle during his lifetime appears between 1811 and 1834,
originally in Scotland, and later in South Africa and England as well. Pringle's output
is diverse, both in style, content and genre. Previous critical discussion of his writing
has usually been limited to isolated aspects of his oeuvre - in particular, his 'South
African' poetry - and does not take the entirety into account. In this dissertation, I seek
to correct this imbalance by exploring the range of Pringle' s writings and establishing
a general , chronological framework within which these various writings can be
interpreted. I have found it necessary to adopt a chronological approach in order to
underline the crucial links between Pringle's work and his life, as well as the influence
of his developing political thought upon the style and content of his writing
The 'sinking down' of Jacobinism and the rise of the counter-revolutionary man of letters
No full textThe murder of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval by John Bellingham in
the lobby of the House of Commons on the evening of 11 May 1812
shocked loyal subjects and reinforced a sense of crisis that followed directly
upon the economic disruptions of the Napoleonic wars and months
of newspaper reporting about Luddite riots and industrial protest in
Nottingham, Yorkshire, and Lancashire. For some, there was reassurance
in the discovery that the assassination was the result of a personal grievance,
unconnected with any wider radical conspiracy. However, both
Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge remained convinced that
this violent event represented disturbing new evidence of the fragility of
established government and the reckless energy of a new generation of
radical leadership and organization. Of course, neither writer had to be
urged on at this late date to hostility to radical reform: the years after the
resumption of war with France in May 1803 provided them with ample
occasion to reconsider the hazards of republican ambition and the virtues
of British constitutional government. Yet the distressed conditions of
1812, and the particular circumstances under which reports of the assassination
circulated back and forth through both their public and private
lives, ensured that the alarming spirit of political resistance that seemed
to erupt in violence in the lobby of the House of Commons would be
cast in the distinctive form of conspiratorial popular resentment, which
both men refused to recognize from their own past radical experience
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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