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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
Magnetic resonance imaging of tissue microcirculation in experimental studies
No full textMagnetic resonance images may be sensitised to tissue perfusion and oxygenation, providing functional information about organs in the body. These MR techniques are of great value for the assessment of ischaemic conditions, both for clinical diagnosis and to investigate disease processes in animal models. Perfusion may be studied completely non-invasively using arterial spin labelling (ASL) to magnetically label blood. The presence of deoxyhaemoglobin (dHb) influences spin-spin relaxation times, producing blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast in images. ASL and BOLD MRI are investigated in this thesis in rat brain and liver. Theoretical and practical aspects of labelling blood by velocity driven adiabatic fast passage (AFP) for continuous ASL (CASL) are considered. A computer model of the modified Bloch equations facilitated optimisation of velocity driven AFP under various experimental and physiological conditions in humans and animals. The computer model was extended to investigate the amplitude modulated (AM) control pulse for multiple-slice CASL. The effect of the AM control on moving spins and some of the reasons for the non-ideal performance of the technique are explained. The AM control was implemented and results in rat brain in-vivo demonstrate that the technique is significantly less sensitive to perfusion than the standard control technique for single slice CASL imaging. BOLD was employed in an animal model of intestinal ischaemia- reperfusion (I/R). This is a devastating condition that affects remote organs, including the liver, lungs, heart, kidney and central nervous system, and may lead to multiple-organ-dysfunction-syndrome. BOLD MRI of the liver during intestinal I/R showed that R2* increases throughout reperfusion. This suggests that dHb accumulates in the liver, consistent with the triggering of the failure of hepatic energy metabolism by intestinal reperfusion following ischaemia
Everybody's happy when the moon shines
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]F major [key]Moderato [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]Moonface, couples silhouetted, photograph: Julia Frark [illustration]De Takacs [engraver]Publisher's advertisement on front inside cover & back cover [note
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
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.
Perspectivas intersemióticas e transmidialidade: adaptando Jane Austen no século XXI
No full textA fim de realizar uma análise comparativa de duas adaptações
contemporâneas do romance Orgulho e preconceito, da escritora inglesa
Jane Austen, este trabalho percorre, em um primeiro momento, a história
das teorias de adaptação, assim como a recepção crítica da obra de Austen.
Finalmente, é dada atenção à construção do foco narrativo no romance e
sua transposição para outras mídias, com ênfase nas adaptações para o
cinema e para a internet. O trabalho analisa com especial interesse as
narrativas transmidiáticas, que recentemente alcançaram grande sucesso de
públicoIn order to offer a comparative analysis of two contemporary adaptations
of Pride and Prejudice, by English author Jane Austen, this M.A. thesis
presents a brief discussion of the history of adaptation as well as of the
critical reception of Austen’s work. Special attention is paid to the
construction of the narrative point of view, both in the novel and in its
transposition to other media, with emphasis on Cinema and the Internet.
Transmedia narratives are investigated with keen interest, given that they
have recently enjoyed great success179 f
Harry Will be the Gentleman : The Nature of Men and Their Relations with Women in Regency English Culture
No full textThe author compares the depictions of young men\u27s romantic relationships in F. Newberry\u27s The Younger Brother with Jane Austen\u27s Pride and Prejudice
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
A Randomized Depression Prevention Trial Comparing Interpersonal Psychotherapy--Adolescent Skills Training to Group Counseling in Schools
No full textGiven the rise in depression disorders in adolescence, it is important to develop and study depression prevention programs for this age group. The current study examined the efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), a group prevention program for adolescent depression, in comparison to group programs that are typically delivered in school settings. In this indicated prevention trial, 186 adolescents with elevated depression symptoms were randomized to receive IPT-AST delivered by research staff or group counseling (GC) delivered by school counselors. Hierarchical linear modeling examined differences in rates of change in depressive symptoms and overall functioning from baseline to the 6-month follow-up assessment. Cox regression compared rates of depression diagnoses. Adolescents in IPT-AST showed significantly greater improvements in self-reported depressive symptoms and evaluator-rated overall functioning than GC adolescents from baseline to the 6-month follow-up. However, there were no significant differences between the two conditions in onset of depression diagnoses. Although both intervention conditions demonstrated significant improvements in depressive symptoms and overall functioning, results indicate that IPT-AST has modest benefits over groups run by school counselors which were matched on frequency and duration of sessions. In particular, IPT-AST outperformed GC in reduction of depressive symptoms and improvements in overall functioning. These findings point to the clinical utility of this depression prevention program, at least in the short-term. Additional follow-up is needed to determine the long-term effects of IPT-AST, relative to GC, particularly in preventing depression onset.The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0620-5Peer reviewe
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