5,352 research outputs found
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Death /
No full textCover title.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn3108774; Papers and correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson 1852-1983. Series 5. Richardson's second separately issued work of a short story. It has been reset by a different printer with Richardson's revision of the text. It is not an offprint from the English review. The title was later changed to Mary Christina
Conceptual Richardson
No full textThe preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on an author whose work continues to be indispensable for understanding the history of the novel.Peer-reviewe
Stratified external mixing at moderate Richardson number
No full textStratified turbulent mixing remains an unsolved problem. Turbulent mixing is complicated by its intermittent nature, its highly vortical motion and the large range of scales of its coherent structures. In order to help reduce the problem to a more tractable form, we consider vortex rings as a reproducible, idealized form of a turbulent coherent structure of a defined length and velocity scale. We generate vortex rings in a stably stratified two-layer fluid of varying Richardson number and observe the vortex ring induced mixing. While previous work has looked at the effect of individual vortex rings on the stratified interface, we analyze the aggregate mixing induced over many vortex ring generations. Over successive vortex rings collisions, the mixing rate converges to a constant for a range of Richardson numbers
Papers of Joseph Falding Richardson, fifth accession
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/66906Lectures on the Physics of X-Ray and Radium Theory by Dr. Eddy, 1934; Lectures by Professor Laby, 1938; Lecture notes in Natural Phil. Vol. 1 Introduction to Theoretical Physicis; Ancient History of the Exact Sciences, 1941, 3rd cyclostyling; 4 photographs of Wilson Hall demolition with note by J.F.R.; Christmas card showing Wilson Hall n.d.; Booklet: "Wilson Hall Centre and Symbol of the University" by R.M. Crawford, 1952; "The Number System of Arithmetic and Algebra"by D.K. Picken, 1923; "History of the Aust. Radiation Lab." by J.F.R.113048
Acquisition: [1983.0009] "Papers of Joseph Falding Richardson, fifth accession
Dataset in support of the thesis 'Environmental and social factors in psychosis: The role of green space, social functioning and loneliness.
No full text Participant information sheet was not available as this dataset was used as part of a secondary data analysis. The original author / owner of the dataset (Dr Thomas Richardson) has provided a copy of the consent form which has been uploaded.</span
What do evaluation instruments tell us about the quality of complementary medicine information on the internet?
No full textBackground: Developers of health information websites aimed at consumers need methods to assess whether their website is of “high quality.” Due to the nature of complementary medicine, website information is diverse and may be of poor quality. Various methods have been used to assess the quality of websites, the two main approaches being (1) to compare the content against some gold standard, and (2) to rate various aspects of the site using an assessment tool.Objective: We aimed to review available evaluation instruments to assess their performance when used by a researcher to evaluate websites containing information on complementary medicine and breast cancer. In particular, we wanted to see if instruments used the same criteria, agreed on the ranking of websites, were easy to use by a researcher, and if use of a single tool was sufficient to assess website quality.Methods: Bibliographic databases, search engines, and citation searches were used to identify evaluation instruments. Instruments were included that enabled users with no subject knowledge to make an objective assessment of a website containing health information. The elements of each instrument were compared to nine main criteria defined by a previous study. Google was used to search for complementary medicine and breast cancer sites. The first six results and a purposive six from different origins (charities, sponsored, commercial) were chosen. Each website was assessed using each tool, and the percentage of criteria successfully met was recorded. The ranking of the websites by each tool was compared. The use of the instruments by others was estimated by citation analysis and Google searching.Results: A total of 39 instruments were identified, 12 of which met the inclusion criteria; the instruments contained between 4 and 43 questions. When applied to 12 websites, there was agreement of the rank order of the sites with 10 of the instruments. Instruments varied in the range of criteria they assessed and in their ease of use.Conclusions: Comparing the content of websites against a gold standard is time consuming and only feasible for very specific advice. Evaluation instruments offer gateway providers a method to assess websites. The checklist approach has face validity when results are compared to the actual content of “good” and “bad” websites. Although instruments differed in the range of items assessed, there was fair agreement between most available instruments. Some were easier to use than others, but these were not necessarily the instruments most widely used to date. Combining some of the better features of instruments to provide fewer, easy-to-use methods would be beneficial to gateway providers
Robert D. Richardson, Jr., 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRobert D. Richardson, Jr. is the author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire, for which he won the Bancroft Award in History. His work is widely acclaimed, and he has been recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize for literary distinction in the writing of history and biography, The Society of American Historians Melcher Book Award, the Unitarian Universalist Association Certificate of Merit, and the Gale Research Company St. Nicholas Society Literary Award. He has taught at Harvard University, University of Colorado and Wesleyan University. He is a co-editor of the recently published Three Centuries of American Poetry
Talking about a Christine Borland sculpture: effective empathy in contemporary anatomy art (and an emerging counterpart in medical training?)
No full textThis Introduction and interview discusses the poetical and empathic insights that are a key to the effectiveness of contemporary artist Christine Borland's practice and its relevance to the medical humanities, visual art research and medical students’ training. It takes place in a context of intensive interest in reciprocity and conversation as well as expert exchange between the fields of Medicine and Contemporary Arts. The interview develops an understanding of medical research and the application of its historical resources and contemporary practice-based research in contemporary art gallery exhibitions. Artists tend not to follow prescriptive programmes towards new historical knowledge, however, a desire to form productive relationships between history and contemporary art practice does reveal practical advantages. Borland's research also includes investigations in anatomy, medical practices and conservatio
A neutron scattering study of orientational ordering in the smectic and nematic phases of the liquid crystal, 2',3'-difluoro-4-heptyl-4"-nonyl p-terphenyl
No full textThe orientational order parameters (P) over bar (2), (P) over bar (4), and (P) over bar (6) have been determined by neutron scattering from a mixture of normal hydrogenous and deuterium labeled molecules in the nematic, smectic A and smectic C phases of the mesogen 2',3'-difluoro-4-heptyl-4"-nonyl-p-terphenyl. Since the method relies on a knowledge of the molecular structure, the influence of different molecular conformations resulting from the terminal chains on the values determined was examined in detail. It was shown that the choice of conformation could significantly effect the resulting values of the order parameters. The order parameters were, therefore, determined by assuming a distribution of conformations for the alkyl chains. The relative contributions of these conformations were governed by the Flory rotational isomeric state model. The values for (P) over bar (2) were consistent with those determined by nuclear magnetic resonance but all the order parameters were generally much greater than those predicted by the Maier-Saupe theory
- …
