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The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
Sherlock Holmes: An expert’s view of expertise
No full textIn recent years, there has been an intense research effort to understand the cognitive processes and structures underlying expert behaviour. Work in different fields, including scientific domains, sports, games, and mnemonics, has shown that there are vast differences in perceptual abilities between experts and novices, and that these differences may underpin other cognitive differences in learning, memory, and problem solving. In this article, we evaluate the progress made in the last years through the eyes of an outstanding, albeit fictional, expert: Sherlock Holmes. We first use the Sherlock Holmes character to illustrate expert processes as described by current research and theories. In particular, the role of perception, as well as the nature and influence of expert knowledge, are all present in the description of Conan Doyle’s hero. In the second part of the article, we discuss a number of issues that current research on expertise has barely addressed. These gaps include, for example, several forms of reasoning, the influence of emotions on cognition, and the effect of age on experts’ knowledge and cognitive processes. Thus, although nearly 120 years old, Conan Doyle’s books show remarkable illustrations of expert behaviour, including the coverage of themes that have mostly been overlooked by current research
Letter from T. Sherlock to her uncle James W. Hall, 19 February 1845
No full textNiece Theresa Sherlock sends condolences on the death of James Ashton Hall to his parents; she also mentions that the "Black Tongue" is prevalent in their vicinity
Okudrilus Csuzdi & Sherlock & Kouete & Doherty-Bone 2015, gen. n.
No full textOkudrilus Csuzdi & Sherlock gen. n. Etymology: Referring to Mount Oku, North-West Region, Cameroon —the highest mountain in the region and a collecting locality of all three the new species. Gender: masculine. Diagnosis: Eudrilinae with closely paired setae and paired male pores close to 17/18. Spermathecal pores preclitellar, paired between a–a. Female pores paired in 14 close to 14/15 near d. Oesophageal gizzard in 6, intestinal gizzards absent. Dorsal blood vessel simple throughout. Paired calciferous glands in 12 and unpaired chylous-sacs in 10, 11. Male genital apparatus metandric with long, backward-running vesicles. Excretory system holoic, vesiculate. Ovo-spermathecal apparatus paired with ventral interconnecting duct. Simple penial setae present. All species in this genus are known only from highland areas above 1000 m in the North West Region. Type-species: Okudrilus monticolus sp. n. Remarks: Okudrilis gen. n. is similar to Metascolex Michaelsen, 1903 in the paired genital pores and metandric condition of the male genitalia; however, Okudrilis differs from it in the position of the gizzard (it is in 5 in Metascolex and 6 in Okudrilus), in the interconnected ovo-spermathecal system and furthermore by the presence of penial setae. Okudrilis with its paired calciferous glands in 12 and paired genital pores resembles Vomia Segun, 1976 as well, but differs from it in the metandric condition of the male genitalia and the long backward-running vesicles (Table 1).Published as part of Csuzdi, Cs., Sherlock, E., Kouete, M. Talla & Doherty-Bone, T. M., 2015, Four new earthworm species from the highlands of Cameroon with description of a new genus Okudrilus gen. n. (Oligochaeta: Eudrilidae & Acanthodrilidae), pp. 25-38 in African Invertebrates 56 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0103, http://zenodo.org/record/767041
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Sherlock Data Warehouse
No full textThis slide deck provides an overview of the data and resources available in the Sherlock Data Warehouse. Sherlock was developed and is currently maintained by the Aviation Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Sherlock contains a valuable collection of flight, air traffic management, and weather data. But Sherlock is not just a data archive. Sherlock also includes tools and resources to access, download, and visualize data, as well as resources to process the data. This overview summarizes Sherlock data sources, demonstrates data analytics and visualization with MicroStrategy, illustrates disparate data integration using the ATM Knowledge graph, and presents a machine learning use case using the Big Data system
[External Resource] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
No full textFirst published in a magazine series, the collection of stories features the author\u27s famous detective Sherlock Holmes
The sensation of Sherlock Holmes
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.This thesis examines the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and
how they relate to the late-Victorian Sensation Novel. First, a brief introduction to the Sensation
novel is made. It makes a study the character of Sherlock Holmes, his habits, and his cases to
show the sensationalism of his character. It considers the setting of late-Victorian England and
its connections to the world created by Conan Doyle. Finally, it takes into account the
significance of Victorian class structure within the stories. All these come together to confirm
that the Sherlock Holmes stories belonged within the sensation genre.
The research materials include critics such as Philip Davis, author of The Victorians,
Russell Goldfarb, author of Sexual Repression and Victorian Literature, and Steven Marcus,
author of The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-
Century England. Other sources also include the 1898 Poverty Map created by Charles Booth,
works by Dr. William Acton, and articles from the Penny Illustrated Paper. These sources help
to form conclusions about the Sherlock Holmes stories as sensational stories providing detailed
descriptions and examinations of Holmes' character, sexuality, and lifestyle and how they pertian
to the Sensation genre. The thesis will also take into account different interpretations of Holmes'
character as it has evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries thus far
Sherlock. Da Arthur Conan Doyle a Benedict Cumberbatch
No full textSaggio sulla serie Sherlock letta in rapporto al Canone di Arthur Conan Doyle, alla storia dei suoi adattamenti e al panorama cinetelevisivo contemporane
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