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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
"The Government spokesman on telecommunications" [announcer at microphone and a group of ministers, including Graham Richardson and Ros Kelly, all rushing onstage] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Inscriptions: "Sat. editorial page 224 x 135"--in red ink below image; "1991; every minister seen to have an opinion on media ownership"--in ink on verso.; Condition: White correction fluid on speech bubble; tape on verso.; Published in the Sydney Morning Herald.; Part of the Moir collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3533848; Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Alan Moir, 2005
Richardson (Alan) History Sacred and Profane
No full textPoulat Emile. Richardson (Alan) History Sacred and Profane. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°22, 1966. pp. 219-220
Evaluation of Alternatives and Costs for Nonpoint Source Controls in the United States Great Lakes Basin
No full textThe final and definitive version of this article will appear in Accounting History SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © [Alan J. Richardson
Graduate perceptions of university study and it's contributions toward the development of workplace competence
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Meeting the demands of industry and employers
No full textAlan Richardson of Northumbria University explains why research and teaching around concrete is high on the agenda and how the University is working with leading industry representatives to ensure it plays its part in helping to produce the concrete engineers of the future
Elevated temperature concrete curing - using polypropylene fibres
No full textThis paper examines cement hydration when concrete cures at elevated temperatures with and without the addition of Type 1 polypropylene fibres and addresses some of the ambiguities that have arisen from previous research.
Paired comparison tests were carried out to compare density, strength, pulse velocity, and absorption using plain and fibre concrete at ambient UK indoor temperatures, compared to concrete at elevated temperatures that would be found in The Middle East.
The results show that both plain and fibre concrete were subject to poor internal curing which created an open pore structure that led to high absorption rates. Polypropylene fibres do not have a significant effect in providing optimum curing conditions when subject to elevated temperatures, however they performed better than plain concrete
The future of pre-registration nursing education: what every children’s and young people’s nurse needs to know?
No full textIn the biggest shake up since project 2000 implentation in the 1980s, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has, in November 2007, launched a UK-wide consultation on the future shape of pre-registration nursing education. The NMC consultation, which runs in parallel to the Modernizing Nursing Careers: setting the direction consultation (Department of Health (DH), 2006), is predicated on future changes in health-care policy and in the delivery of health-care services.<br/
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