367 research outputs found
Catalytic reactions.
No full textCatalytic reactions / V. I. Komarewsky and C. H. RieszPhotochemical reactions / Albert Noyes, V. BoekelheideElectrolytic reactions / Sherlock Swann, jr
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
Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
No full textThomas Swann (1805-1883), son of a prominent lawyer in the District of Columbia and educated at the University of Virginia, began his career in 1833 as the Secretary to the Neapolitan Claims Commission in Washington. His marriage to Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock a year later marked his entrance into Baltimore society and into the affairs of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. After participating in the B & O's struggles with the Virginia legislature in the late 1840's, Swann became president of the railroad and supervised its extension from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia, on the Ohio River.
Three years after leaving the B & O, Swann entered politics in 1856 as the Know-Nothing Mayor of Baltimore. From 1856 to 1860 he made numerous improvements, establishing the city's first public police department, fire department, streetcar system, and larger park. With the corning of the Civil War, Swann left the Know-Nothing Party and began a decade of numerous shifting political alliances, in which he was a bellweather in anticipating the wave of the future. In 1864 Swann won election as Governor of Maryland on the Unionist ticket. In 1867 the Maryland legislature elected him to the United States Senate, but he declined the honor knowing the Republican majority in that body would refuse to seat him because of his shift to the Conservative Alliance formed by non-Radical Unionists and Democrats. After a second unsuccessful attempt for the Senate, Swann was elected in 1868 to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in which body he served for ten years. He retired from politics in 1879 to his country estate, Morven Park, in Loudoun County, Virginia, where he died on July 24, 1883.M.A
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
[External Resource] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
No full textFirst published in a magazine series, the collection of stories features the author\u27s famous detective Sherlock Holmes
The sensation of Sherlock Holmes
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.This thesis examines the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and
how they relate to the late-Victorian Sensation Novel. First, a brief introduction to the Sensation
novel is made. It makes a study the character of Sherlock Holmes, his habits, and his cases to
show the sensationalism of his character. It considers the setting of late-Victorian England and
its connections to the world created by Conan Doyle. Finally, it takes into account the
significance of Victorian class structure within the stories. All these come together to confirm
that the Sherlock Holmes stories belonged within the sensation genre.
The research materials include critics such as Philip Davis, author of The Victorians,
Russell Goldfarb, author of Sexual Repression and Victorian Literature, and Steven Marcus,
author of The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-
Century England. Other sources also include the 1898 Poverty Map created by Charles Booth,
works by Dr. William Acton, and articles from the Penny Illustrated Paper. These sources help
to form conclusions about the Sherlock Holmes stories as sensational stories providing detailed
descriptions and examinations of Holmes' character, sexuality, and lifestyle and how they pertian
to the Sensation genre. The thesis will also take into account different interpretations of Holmes'
character as it has evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries thus far
[[alternative]]Metamorphosis of Sherlock Holmes: On Taiwan Dong-Fang Publisher's Translation of Sherlock Holmes Stories into Children's Literature
No full text[[abstract]]In 1960, Taiwan Dong-Fang Publisher (台灣東方出版社) translated all Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories, and published the Complete Sherlock Holmes for Young Readers (福爾摩斯探案全集), which comprised 20 books in the first edition. This essay draws on Zohar Shavit's theory on translation of children's literature to analyze the transformations of characterization, plot and language in this series of books. In addition, the essay analyzes the transformation of one important element of detective stories, suspense. It also discusses the reasons, results, advantages and disadvantages of these transformations.
Is Sherlock Elementary?
No full textTreball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos.Codi: EA0938. Curs: 2014-2015This paper is based on the original main characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock
Holmes and his inseparable Doctor Watson. Their stories will be compared with two very
recent TV series adaptations “Sherlock” and “Elementary”. The first one is British and the
second one is American. As those adaptations present a more modern version of these
characters, some of the most characteristic elements from the original stories, will be
compared in order to see if maintaining or changing some or all of those elements, are enough
to recognise both Sherlock and Watson with the original ones, those who created their author.
The first analysis that will be developed is the one dealing with both the physical and
psychological features of each one of these two characters with explicit definitions taken from
the original books and then a description of the characters in the series. Some of the
considerations are based on the viewing of all the episodes and seasons emitted until today.
Then, the focus of the paper is on the features which have been maintained or changed in
comparison with the original stories.
What is more, one may argue that some of the elements which have been changed, such as
turning Watson into a woman or Sherlock falling in love with a pretty girl called Moriarty, c
adapt the product for a new audience
Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet?
No full textWilliam Gillette spent more than sixty of his eighty-three years on the American stage as an active playwright, actor, designer, and producer. A major figure between 1880 and 1910, the Age of Melodrama in American theatre, Gillette is remembered primarily for his portrayal of the master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and as the author of melodramas such as Held by the Enemy and Secret Service.</jats:p
A PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS ON THE MAIN CHARACTER AS WELL AS THE AUTHOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES : A STUDY IN SCARLET BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
No full textA PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS ON THE MAIN CHARACTER AS WELL AS THE AUTHOR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES : A STUDY IN SCARLET BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
- …
