341 research outputs found
Plastic anisotropy of body-centered cubic metals
No full textThesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mining and Metallurgy, September 1967.Archives copy is a reproduction from microfiche; issued in pages."August, 1967." Vita.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-124).by Henry Ralph Piehler.Sc.D
Henry David Thoreau Collection
No full textHenry David Thoreau, born in 1817, was an American author, historian, poet, naturalist, and philosopher. He was a leader of transcendentalism and came to find a mentor and friend in Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau's better-known works include Walden and Civil Disobedience.
The Henry David Thoreau collection contains several short manuscripts in addition to both incoming and outgoing correspondence. This collection also includes several handwritten journal entries from the 1840s and 1850s.
This collection was digitized as part of Project REVEAL (Read and View English & American Literature)
La vida examinada de Henry
No full textThe author celebrates the bicentennary of Henry David Thoreau talking about the two overarching themes of his life: friendship and trying to lead an examined life. The title responds to the correspondence between this celebration and the celebration of the bicentennary of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This and the fact that "examined life" is an essential concept of Socrates in his Apology define this paper's character.El autor celebra el bicentenario del nacimiento de Henry David Thoreau comentando los dos temas dominantes de su vida: la amistad y tratar de llevar una vida examinada. El título obedece al paralelismo entre esta celebración y la celebración del bicentenario del nacimiento de Ralph Waldo Emerson. Esto y el hecho de que "vida examinada" sea un concepto fundamental de Sócrates en su Apología determinan el carácter de este texto
More news from Rome, or, Magna Charta discoursed of between a poor man & his wife [electronic resource] : as also a new font erected in the cathedral-church at Gloucester in October 1663, and consecrated by the reverend moderate bishop, Dr. William Nicolson ... : as also an assertion of Dr. William Warmstrey ... wherein he affirmeth that it is a lesser sin for a man to kill his father than to refrain coming to the divine service established in the Church of England ...
No full textAn attack on Philanax Anglicus and the Church of England.Written by Ralph Wallis. Cf. DNB.Dedication signed: Sil Awl [anagram of Wallis].Another ed. has title: Or Magna Charta; more new from Rome: discoursed between a poor man & his wife.Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.Wing (2nd ed.)Electronic reproduction
Hague’s History of the law in South Australia, 1837-1867 / Ralph M. Hague ; with a biography of the author by Helen Whitington and a foreword by the Honourable Justice Perry ; illustrations compiled and captioned by Bruce Greenhalgh.
No full textCh. 1 Historical background -- Ch. 2. Sir John Jeffcott -- Ch. 3. Henry Jickling -- Ch. 4. Sir Charles Cooper -- Ch. 5. Mr Justice Boothby -- Ch. 6. The Supreme Court -- Ch. 7. The Court of Appeals -- Ch. 8. Courts of Inferior Jurisdiction -- Ch. 9. The Law Officers of the Crown -- Ch. 10. The legal profession -- Ch. 11. The Aborigines and the law -- Ch. 12. Registration of deeds and the Real Property Act-- Ch. 13. The goal -- Biography of the author - Ralph Meyrick Hague
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Postcard to Ralph L. Cheney (April 19, 1918)
No full textA postcard to Ralph L. Cheney, dated April 19th, 1918. The front of the postcard has the address of both men on it. On the back, the author of the postcard, only identified as Henry due to inability to read name, tells Cheney about the arrival of a Springfield man named Wyer, who is taking a special course on war work. He also promises to send prospective students names in response to a letter he received from Professor Berry.Ralph L. Cheney served as the head of Springfield College’s Secretarial Department from 1907 to 1924. Before taking this position, he worked as a YMCA secretary in Albany and Niagara Falls, New York
Transatlantic Romanticism: The English Romantics and American Nineteenth−Century Poetic Tradition
No full textThis thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources.
An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition
The Moral Individualism of Henry David Thoreau
No full textHenry Thoreau boasted that he was widely travelled in Concord, Massachusetts. He was born there on 12 July 1817, and he died there on 6 May 1862, of tuberculosis, at the age of forty-four years. In 1837 he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1838 he joined Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others in the informal group that became known as the New England Transcendentalists. The author of four books, many essays and poems, and a voluminous journal, he is best known for the book Walden and the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’, and for the circumstances attending these two milestones in American thought and literature.</jats:p
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
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