444 research outputs found
Seminole Attacks Near New Smyrna, 1835-1856
No full textThis narrative was dictated in the year 1890 by Mrs. Jane Murray Sheldon to her daughter Mrs. R. S. Sheldon. A copy was later given to The Florida Historical Society. It was published during that year in the New Smyrna Breeze, a weekly newspaper of local circulation. Footnotes are now added by Professor R. Lee Goulding, of New Smyrna
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
A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
No full textThis thesis argues that stability of the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually accessed via engagement with media such as cinema. This positioning, however, is not quantifiable and may not be identified as arising from any particular production practice, dimension of popularity, theme, style, characteristic of production personnel, and so on. By synthesising the work of several theorists and applying this synthesis to a selection of films, a framework of ideas (around the ritualised ‘flagging’ of the national via the expression of stakeholder interests) is applied to cinema in New Zealand. In particular, an ideoscape is ultimately mapped as a result of applying this framework of ideas. The normative assumptions of national cinema are examined in this way and found to be lacking despite the weight that the term ‘national cinema’ continues to have
The Memory Palace:Telling the Story of the Interior
No full textThis book chapter originated as an invited keynote paper at the Interior Educators 'Interior Futures 'conference at Northumbria University in 2011. The paper was blind peer revwied for publication. The content of the paper represents a process of reflection on my practice as a writer and the designer of narrative structures and building stories, and in it, for the first time, I was able to articulate the relationship between the narrative structures of my first book 'The Secret Lives of Buildings' and my second 'The Memory Palace', explsoring how literary and spatial form can model one another. My invitation to speak at Interior Futures, the inaugural research conference of Interior Edcators, the UK wide interiors academic forum, is also the result of my role in the foundation of the Interiors Forum Scotland, which predated its UK wide successor by several years, and provided a model for this conference
Defining Heroinism: Heartthrobs Refining Heroines in 18th and 19th Century Women\u27s Literature
No full textThis project will explore the emergence of “heroinism,” a uniquely feminine way in which early female authors approached the heroine’s journey. Barred by male expectations of female conduct both in society and literature, eighteenth and nineteenth century women daring to “attempt the pen” forged stories of heroines with conventions and tropes distinctly, though not entirely, separate from those told of centuries of heroes. I intend to track the ways in which these early tales of heroines told by women strayed from the traditional heroic plot, with unique motivations, mentors, trials, and rewards, but also how they were shaped and confined by the male literary ideal. Most notably, I will explore the narrative of refinement, the ways in which the male characters both refine and reward the heroine with marriage. I will consistently use this parallel between heroine and author to argue that “heroinism” emerged and evolved in ways consistent with the experience of the female author, and it was used to assert female authority in their own identity formation. I intend to construct this analysis chronologically, beginning with Charlotte Lennox’s 1752 novel The Female Quixote, exploring Frances Burney’s Evelina and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, and ending with Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, whose heroine in many ways obeys the early conventions of “heroinism” but eventually demonstrates how vastly writing about women has changed in a single century
Defining Heroinism: Heartthrobs Refining Heroines
No full textThis project will explore the emergence of “heroinism,” a uniquely feminine way in which early female authors approached the heroine’s journey. Barred by male expectations of female conduct both in society and literature, eighteenth and nineteenth century women daring to “attempt the pen” forged stories of heroines with conventions and tropes distinctly, though not entirely, separate from those told of centuries of heroes. I intend to track the ways in which these early tales of heroines told by women strayed from the traditional heroic plot, with unique motivations, mentors, trials, and rewards, but also how they were shaped and confined by the male literary ideal. Most notably, I will explore the narrative of refinement, the ways in which the male characters both refine and reward the heroine, governing her actions and dictating her acceptance just as fellow male authors defined that of the authors I will be examining. I will consistently use this parallel between heroine and author to argue that “heroinism” emerged and evolved in ways consistent with the experience of the female author, and the novel as a whole. I intend to construct this analysis chronologically, beginning with Charlotte Lennox’s 1752 novel The Female Quixote, exploring Frances Burney’s Evelina and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, and ending with Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, whose heroine in many ways obeys the early conventions of “heroinism” but eventually demonstrates how vastly writing about women has changed in a single century
Mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic structuring suggests similarity between two morphologically plastic genera of Australian freshwater mussels (Unionoida : Hyriidae)
No full textCopyright © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.In the Lake Eyre Basin, the Australian hyriid genus Velesunio is represented by three undescribed species, each of which are highly divergent genetically, but morphologically similar to Velesunio wilsonii (Lea 1859). A fourth species, Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi 1847), occurs not only in the Lake Eyre Basin but throughout much of eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin. In this study, we show that another hyriid, Alathyria jacksoni (Iredale 1934), which is sympatric with V. ambiguus, is genetically deeply nested within the Velesunio species complex, such that the genus Velesunio is paraphyletic with respect to A. jacksoni. Moreover, our mitochondrial phylogenetic reconstructions indicate that A. jacksoni is closely allied to one of the cryptic Velesunio species occurring in the Lake Eyre Basin, but distinct from V. ambiguus and the two other Velesunio species. These data suggest that the genera Alathyria and Velesunio are in need of revision. The shells of A. jacksoni and Velesunio spp. vary with local conditions and sometimes are difficult to distinguish. Our analyses also show that shell characters of these taxa do not closely match the phylogenetic data, and it appears that the traditional taxonomic emphasis on these plastic characters has obscured evolutionary relationships between these, and possibly other, Hyriidae.Andrew M. Baker, Fran Sheldon, Jemma Somerville, Keith F. Walker and Jane M. Hugheshttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622921/description#descriptio
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
No full textIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
No full textThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
Around the Color Wheel
No full textThis children’s story tells about adventures of a young girl who goes on a hot air balloon adventure to find colors, which disappeared from the world five years ago. In addition to the creative work, which is the primary content of the thesis, the author details her writing process and discusses the relationship between philosophy and children’s literature
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