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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (Ed. by N Seager)
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position—in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook.The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works
Richard Berry Seager Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman
No full textAn examination of the life of Richard Seager is important for two reasons. First, it provides a glimpse of a character of a member of the second generation of researchers to work in Cretan archaeology and, second, Seager and his generation helped form our own preconceptions about the early history of Greece. His underlying thesis, that the Early Minoan society was the first European civilization, thus the foundation of Greek and later Western history, is considered valid today.https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/casfaculty_books/1101/thumbnail.jp
Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe’s Politics at the Hanoverian Succession
No full textIn this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoverian succession, were excluded from Defoe’s canon by Furbank and Owens on the grounds that the writing was poor in quality. A closer review of the external and internal evidence, however, points to Defoe as the author of these occasional political tracts, which reveal his attempts to attenuate what he perceived as the harmful effects of government by a single-party ministry
Raw data for a study of smile aesthetic perception amongst dental professionals, patients and parents towards impacted maxillary canine treatment options
No full textObjective
To evaluate the smile aesthetics of the different treatment options for impacted maxillary canines as perceived by orthodontists, dentists, patients and parents.
Design
Four digitally manipulated images were created to imitate different treatment options available for the treatment of ectopic maxillary canines including; alignment of the impacted maxillary canine, substituted premolars, retained deciduous canines or gaps present. The images were embedded into piloted questionnaires.
Setting
Four rater groups were selected to complete the questionnaire consisting of an Orthodontist group, a GDP group, a Patient group consisting of patients between the ages of 11 and 18 who were considered to be ‘Gillick competent’ and a Parent group consisting of parents/guardians who accompanied the patients to their orthodontic appointments.
Method
Each participant completing the questionnaire was asked to mark the visual analogue scale underneath each image according to their perception of attractiveness of each image. Quantitative scoring of the perceived attractiveness of the smile was assessed by one calibrated assessor measuring the distance from the start of the scale to the marked cross placed on the VAS scale.
A two-way ANOVA (mixed between-within subject’s ANOVA) was used to compare perception of differences in smile aesthetics.
Results
There were significant differences found in the VAS between the groups (p = 0.002) and between the treatment options (P=<0.001) There was no statistically significant difference found between the aligned canines and substituted premolars images by the patient (p = 0.2) or parent group (p = 0.5). All groups most disliked the treatment option where gaps were present at the end of treatment.
Conclusion
The patient and parent group showed similar perception in smile aesthetics for aligned canines and substituted premolars and all groups showed a strong dislike to the presence of gaps
M. Fulford et M. Hall (Dir.), John Dore, Nina Keay de H. Dodge, D. P. S. Peacock, R. H. Seager Smith), The Amphorae, Coarse-Pottery and Building Materials
No full textHanoune Roger. M. Fulford et M. Hall (Dir.), John Dore, Nina Keay de H. Dodge, D. P. S. Peacock, R. H. Seager Smith), The Amphorae, Coarse-Pottery and Building Materials. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 60, 1991. p. 696
M. Fulford et M. Hall (Dir.), John Dore, Nina Keay de H. Dodge, D. P. S. Peacock, R. H. Seager Smith), The Amphorae, Coarse-Pottery and Building Materials
No full textHanoune Roger. M. Fulford et M. Hall (Dir.), John Dore, Nina Keay de H. Dodge, D. P. S. Peacock, R. H. Seager Smith), The Amphorae, Coarse-Pottery and Building Materials. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 60, 1991. p. 696
Defending HOT Theory and The Wide Intrinsicality View: A Reply to Weisberg, Van Gulick, and Seager
No full textThis is my reply to Josh Weisberg, Robert Van Gulick, and William Seager, published in JCS vol 20, 2013. This symposium grew out of an author-meets-critics session at the Central APA conference in 2013 on my 2012 book THE CONSCIOUSNESS PARADOX (MIT Press). Topics covered include higher-order thought (HOT) theory, my own "wide intrinsicality view," the problem of misrepresentation, targetless HOTs, conceptualism, introspection, and the transitivity principle
Defending HOT Theory and The Wide Intrinsicality View: A Reply to Weisberg, Van Gulick, and Seager
No full textThis is my reply to Josh Weisberg, Robert Van Gulick, and William Seager, published in JCS vol 20, 2013. This symposium grew out of an author-meets-critics session at the Central APA conference in 2013 on my 2012 book THE CONSCIOUSNESS PARADOX (MIT Press). Topics covered include higher-order thought (HOT) theory, my own "wide intrinsicality view," the problem of misrepresentation, targetless HOTs, conceptualism, introspection, and the transitivity principle
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author’s life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position—in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The volume ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, expert contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works
Concise history of the acclimatisation of the Salmonidae in Tasmania
No full textThe idea of acclimatising the English salmon (Salmo salar)
in Tasmanian waters was entertained by some of the colonists
at a very early period in our history. In the year 1844, as
recorded in Vol. 1, p. 28 1, of the " Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Tasmania," the late Captain Frederick Chalmers, of
Brighton, in Tasmania, applied to Dr. Mackenzie, of Kinillan-by-
Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, for salmon fry to bring to
Tasmania. The fry were not supplied, but the correspondence
is interesting, and shows how little was then known of the
subject when Dr. Mackenzie suggested that artificially
impregnated ova deposited in a basket of fine gravel and
plunged in a tank would require no more attention until it
was landed in Tasmania, where it could be put into a pail and
carried to any stream and there deposited.
P. S. Seager was
Secretary to the Fisheries Board of Tasmania
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