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The monthly miscellany, 1774-1777: An annotated register of the contents. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
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The Monthly ledger, 1773-1776: An annotated register of the contents. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
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Davies, R. A. A calendar of the Archdeaconry of Stafford section of the register of Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, with some discussion of its contents. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1986.
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Chambre des notaires de la province de Québec. Table alphabétique des noms contenus dans le tableau des notaires 1898. [S.l: s.n., 1987.
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Office, Gloucestershire Record. Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office. 3rd ed. Gloucester: Gloucestershire County Office, 1995.
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Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office. 2nd ed. [Gloucestershire]: Gloucestershire County Council, 1990.
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Office, Gloucestershire Record. Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office. [Gloucester]: Gloucestershire County Council, 1988.
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Office, Gloucestershire Record. Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office. 4th ed. Gloucester): Gloucestershire County Council, 1999.
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James, Mason. The DH register of cost-effectiveness studies: A review of study content and quality. York: Centre for Health Economics, University of York, 1995.
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James, Mason. The DH register of cost-effectiveness studies: A review of study content and quality. York: York University, Centre for Health Economics, 1995.
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Lippincott's content review for NCLEX-RN. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
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Abraham, Erin Vanessia. Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983717.
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Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they reveal much about the ways those authors and, presumably, their audiences understood a variety of social phenomena. Offering new, more accurate translations of the penitentials than what has previously been available, this book delves into the potentialities addressed in these manuals for clues about less tangible aspects of early medieval history, including the innocence and vulnerability of young children and the relationship between speech and culpability; the links between puberty, autonomy, and moral accountability; early medieval efforts to regulate sexual relationships; and much more.
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Pasuy Arciniegas, William, ed. Patrimonio y contemporaneidad. Bogotá. Colombia: Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/978-958-5486-55-3.
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PATRIMONIO Y CONTEMPORANEIDAD es la quinta publicación de la Colección HÁBITAT Y PATRIMONIO que socializa investigaciones y proyectos urbano-arquitectónicos relacionados con la interacción entre arquitecturas preexistentes y actuales en contextos con valor patrimonial. Los aportes permiten evidenciar la experiencia de diferentes coautores desde la interdisciplinariedad, no solo como ejercicio espacial sino intelectual e investigativo, desde las disciplinas de la arquitectura, urbanismo, historia, arte e ingeniería, procedentes de Italia, España, México, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina y Colombia, presentadas en las Quintas Jornadas Internacionales de Reflexión en Patrimonio Cultural 2018, organizadas por la Universidad de La Salle y la Facultad Ciencias del Hábitat en Bogotá, Colombia. Con la presente entrega, se cumple el primer quinquenio de la Colección, experiencias que aportan a la generación de nuevo conocimiento y socialización de un fenómeno que quizás no ha tenido la importancia requerida frente a la intervención de contextos y paisajes patrimoniales con la pertinencia y calidad de intervenciones contemporáneas, vinculo que evidencia el paso del tiempo y la suma de capas y estratos históricos. En cinco años de compartir conocimientos y experiencias, han participado delegados de cuatro continentes, más de cien coautores y cerca de veinte países, cuyo resultado e impacto ha sido muy positivo frente a la oportunidad de conocer proyectos e investigaciones de última generación, permitiendo el constructo y registro de conocimientos en la contemporaneidad de la cual somos partícipes. Por lo anterior y como cierre de este primer objetivo común, es menester agradecer de manera especial a todos quienes han hecho posible esta Colección y dedicado de lleno a los lectores, quienes posibilitan poner en valor la reflexión sobre la relación existente entre nuestros patrimonios naturales y culturales y la contemporaneidad
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Hezel, Linda F. BACCALAUREATE CURRICULA FOR REGISTERED NURSES: A CONTENT ANALYSIS. 1988.
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Office, Gloucestershire Record. Handlist of the Contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office. 3rd ed. Gloucestershire County Council, 1995.
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(Firm), Kaplan Test Prep, ed. NCLEX-RN content review guide. Kaplan Publishing, 2018.
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F, Drummond M., University of York. Centre for Health Economics., Health Economics Consortium, and NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination., eds. THe DH register of cost-effectiveness studies: A review of study content and quality. York: Centre forHealth Economics, University of York, 1995.
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Ferguson, Heather L. The Proper Order of Things. Stanford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503603561.001.0001.
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The Proper Order of Things demonstrates how early modern Ottoman territorial control, both in general practice and in the specific contexts of Greater Syria and occupied Hungary, was enabled through the creation of a particular web of textual authority. The book therefore focuses attention on an Ottoman paper trail of legal edicts, administrative reports, and reflective treatises that extended the jurisdiction of sovereign power through an evolving textual corpus. This corpus sublimated anxieties of fragmented regional power to assertions of imperial universalism. Formalized registers and circulated protocols fostered the development of a trifecta of imperial order: the emergence of an elite administrative class defined in and through an emerging court bureaucracy; the circulation of a documentary corpus of edicts that promulgated and registered imperial supremacy via a specific idiom of power; and the establishment of a dynastic linguistic and legal medium that defined the shape, even if it did not control the content, of intellectual activity, speculative inquiry, and literary stylizations. The Proper Order of Things thus argues that a link between territorial and textual authority also formalized a particular discourse that became the means by which the Ottoman establishment managed distance and organized diversity into an ordered system of state power. This discourse created a particular orientation to authoritative texts and bridged the divide between conceptual or ideological frameworks and administrative practices.
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Marcus, Smith, and Leslie Nico. Part III Transfers in Particular Contexts, 18 Transfer of Leases. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198748434.003.0018.
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This chapter discusses the manner in which leases can be transferred or assigned. Leases constitute an important exception to the general rule that burdens cannot be assigned. The assignment of any lease, no matter what its duration, must be effected formally by deed. This is so even where the lease could have been created informally. Additionally, so far as leases of over seven years are concerned, the transfer must be registered in order to be effective. There is a fundamental distinction between a legal and an equitable lease. A legal lease comes into being when the requisite formalities for the creation of such a lease have been complied with. Meanwhile, an equitable lease comes into being when, although the requisite formalities have not been complied with, there is nevertheless a contract for a lease to which equity will give effect.
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Waters, Robert Edmond Chester. Parish registers in England: Their history and contents : with suggestions for securing their better custody and preservation. Family History Society of Cheshire, 1999.
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(Firm), Kaplan Test Prep, ed. NCLEX-RN content review guide. Kaplan Publishing, 2017.
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Prater, Derek. PN pharmacology for nursing: Content mastery series review module. 6th ed. 2014.
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Urton, Gary. Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers. Edited by Sonia Alconini and Alan Covey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219352.013.46.
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The Incas used the quipu, a knotted cord device, for administrative and historical record-keeping. This chapter summarizes the modern scholarship on the quipu, which uses colonial documents and analyses of the construction and numerical composition of surviving quipus. Seventeenth-century sources describe how quipu records were calculated using the yupana, a simple device for performing basic arithmetic functions. Most of the extant quipus are found in museums or private collections, removed from their original context, but the recent discovery of several quipus that were left at the coastal site of Inkawasi when it was abandoned offer a unique opportunity to consider how they were used to register the movement of staple goods moving in and out of an Inca imperial storage facility.
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Norris, Pippa, Sarah Cameron, and Thomas Wynter, eds. Electoral Integrity in America. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934163.001.0001.
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The contemporary era raises a series of red flags about electoral integrity in America. Problems include plummeting public trust, exacerbated by President Trump’s claims of massive electoral fraud. Confidence in the impartiality and reliability of information from the news media has eroded. And Russian meddling has astutely exploited both these vulnerabilities, heightening fears that the 2016 contest was unfair. This book brings together a first-class group of expert academics and practitioners to analyze challenges facing contemporary elections in America. Contributors analyze evidence for a series of contemporary challenges facing American elections, including the weaknesses of electoral laws, overly restrictive electoral registers, gerrymandering district boundaries, fake news, the lack of transparency, and the hodgepodge of inconsistent state regulations. The conclusion sets these issues in comparative context and draws out the broader policy lessons for improving electoral integrity and strengthening democracy.
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McCready, Elin. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821366.001.0001.
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This book provides an approach to the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics and expressions with honorific import, treating them as carrying expressive content which contributes either directly or indirectly to a register corresponding to the current formality of the speech situation. This system is given empirical application to a wide range of honorific expressions including utterance and argument honorifics in Japanese, Thai and several other languages, and it is proposed that languages use distinct strategies for honorification which has implications for the grammaticality of certain combinations of honorifics; on the theoretical side, philosophical connections are drawn to a wider range of issues in theory of the construction of social reality, social meaning, and the expression of gender.
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Chatterjea, Ananya. Of Corporeal Rewritings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing. Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928187.013.41.
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This chapter begins with the premise that embodied practices and works move across different contexts, and proposes that such migrations provide crucial insight into registers of power. While dance and embodied practices generally invite in audiences and/or participants, these journeys almost always are about access, which resonates differently in different contexts. It analyzes choreographic strategies and the “micropolitics of technique” in specific works by Rennie Harris, Nora Chipaumire, Rosy Simas, and Rulan Tangen in order to explore the different ways in which choreographers reimagine classical “masterpieces” and meta-narratives of “otherness,” thus upsetting traditional relations of power. It also tracks the contrasting journeys in the broad spread of the movement forms of ballet and yoga, where difference comes to be snuffed out through acts of “translation,” consolidating existing hierarchies.
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Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. Writing Petitions in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748267.003.0007.
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Dabhoiwala explores the mechanics of claim-making and the emotional register in which that might be done, focusing on claims addressed not to a wide audience but to a specific and official one: he is concerned with private petitions addressed through the Master of Requests to Charles II. This channel, he argues, was primarily used by those below gentry rank. To make their case effectively, such people tended to turn to specialists with technical knowledge. Drawing on the papers of a scrivener whose services were valued, he examines how this process worked. The scrivener could advise his clients on what was expected, and in that context lived experience mattered less than its formulaic invocation.
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Bergman, Elizabeth, Dari Sylvester Tran, and Philip Yates. Voter Identification. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934163.003.0006.
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Chapter 6 examines the role of voter identification requirements to register and cast a ballot in the 2016 U.S. election. Evidence is drawn from a county-level data set based on public records of votes cast for the two major party candidates to investigate the effects of lax and strict voter registration requirements in 50 U.S. states plus D.C. on the number of votes won by Clinton and Trump at county level, controlling for the demographic characteristics of counties, such as educational and poverty levels. The study concludes that, even with these controls, the type of voter ID laws did significantly impact the outcome; in the 2016 election, the estimates suggest that voter ID laws increased GOP support by 1.8% and lowered support for Democrats by 0.7%. In close contests, this made a difference, with voter ID significantly influencing the vote in favor of the GOP.
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Burden-Strevens, Christopher. Reconstructing Republican Oratory in Cassius Dio’s Roman History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788201.003.0008.
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This chapter explores the way in which Cassius Dio—a third-century Greek historian of the Roman Republic—used published oratory of the late Republic as a basis for his own historiographical speeches. It argues that, far from belonging in a sophistic thought-world divorced from their depicted historical context, Cassius Dio’s historiographical speeches display a marked attention for preserving not only specific arguments, but also the rhetorical strategies and turns of phrase used to make those arguments in the oratory of the first century AD. While Cicero inevitably appears to predominate in Dio’s register of sources for Roman oratory, this chapter nevertheless demonstrates Dio’s awareness of non-Ciceronian oratory—such as the speeches of Catulus, Hortensius, and M. Antonius—preserved in quoted material and testimonies of these orators in Ciceronian texts, which the historian reproduced accordingly.
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Fay, Jessica. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816201.003.0001.
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After establishing the parameters and critical context for the book, the Introduction argues that, for Wordsworth, monasticism registers as something much more than ‘Roman Catholicism’. Monasticism in England exists as a residual presence or religious legacy, which is inscribed in the landscape, in ruined architecture, in graveyards, even in trees. Wordsworth’s thematic engagement with monasticism is thus not restricted to theological or ecclesiastical issues; rather it is revealed to have a local topographical inflection. In this context, Wordsworth’s visits to monastic ruins differ from conventional picturesque activity. The affinity Wordsworth felt for St Francis when he visited the monastery of Laverna in Tuscany in 1837 then serves to explain the processes through which the poet chiefly came to conceive an appreciation for monastic history, and to demonstrate how opinions regarding monasticism shifted during the first decades of the nineteenth century.
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Walter, James. “No Loans for Ladies”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783848.003.0003.
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The government of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard (2010–2013) presented attributes conventionally thought to be conducive to the acquisition of political capital—delivery on policy commitments, effective coalition building, competence in government, courage in adversity, approval and loyalty from those most closely engaged with her—but it never gained traction in the quest for electoral capital. What, exactly, was behind this denial of credit? This chapter discusses numerous propositions offered to explain Gillard’s failure in the context of debates about political capital to gauge how “elusive capital” might be explained. Analyzing a paradoxical case underlines the need for caution and nuance. The chapter concludes that standardized registers of leadership attributes/capacities must be carefully related to exogenous factors (country-specific scenarios and the issues of context, political culture, and historical timing they manifest) in attempts to operationalize leadership capital measures.
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Das-Munshi, Jayati, Tamsin Ford, Matthew Hotopf, Martin Prince, and Robert Stewart, eds. Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198735564.001.0001.
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This long-awaited second edition of Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology covers all of the considerable new developments in psychiatric epidemiology that have occurred since the first edition was published in 2003. It includes new content on key topics such as life course epidemiology, gene–environment interactions, bioethics, patient and public involvement in research, mixed methods research, new statistical methods, case registers, policy, and implementation. Looking to the future of this rapidly evolving scientific discipline and how it will respond to the emerging opportunities and challenges posed by ‘big data’, new technologies, open science, and globalization, this new edition will serve as an invaluable reference for clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to researchers in mental health and people studying or teaching psychiatric epidemiology at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
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Bevan, Chris. Land Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198789765.001.0001.
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Land Law maintains a critical emphasis and encourages the reader to consider and understand the law in context (both within society and the academic world), not just in the abstract. Topics covered include: the principles of registered land, unregistered land, adverse possession, co-ownership, and interest in the family home. It also looks at licences and proprietary estoppel, leases, the law of easements and profits, covenants in freehold land, and the law of mortgages. Finally, it looks at land law and human rights.
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Norris, Pippa, Sarah Cameron, and Thomas Wynter. Challenges in American Elections. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934163.003.0001.
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Electoral integrity faces many challenges in America. To understand these issues, the first part of this chapter starts by identifying the major concerns arising during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, including issues about fraud, fakery, and meddling. To place these issues in a broader perspective and establish whether systematic evidence justifies these sorts of anxieties, the second part clarifies the core concept of electoral integrity as the key yardstick used to evaluate elections around the world and outlines the sequential steps in the electoral cycle, as well as how this concept can best be measured. The third part demonstrates that many countries face multiple challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity. Compared with similar affluent democracies, American contests perform particularly poorly. The analysis also uses expert and public evaluations to diagnose the electoral performance of all 50 U.S. states. To understand the reasons for these ratings in more depth, the fourth part outlines the chapters contained in the rest of the book. Contributors analyze evidence for a series of contemporary challenges facing American elections: the weaknesses of electoral laws, photo ID requirements for electoral registers, gerrymandering district boundaries, fake news, the lack of transparency, and the hodgepodge of inconsistent state regulations. The conclusion sets these challenges in comparative context and draws out the broader policy lessons for improving electoral integrity and thereby strengthening American democracy.
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Bhopal, Raj S. Epidemiological study designs and principles of data analysis: A conceptually integrated suite of methods and techniques. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198739685.003.0009.
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Epidemiological studies are unified by their common goals and by their basis in defined populations. The case series (or register-based study) includes examination of trends in deaths, cancers, notifiable diseases, and hospitalizations. Case–control studies are analysed by comparing the exposure to risk factors in cases to those in controls. In a population studied at a specific time and place (a cross-sectional study), measurements can be made of disease, the factors which may cause disease, or both simultaneously. Cohort studies produce data on disease incidence and are especially good on associations between risk factors and disease outcomes. Trials compare treated and untreated populations and are used, primarily, for information on effectiveness of health interventions. Natural experiments, including Mendelian randomization studies, may provide causal evidence. The principles for the analysis of all studies are similar. The design and interpretation should be in the context of traditional, systematic, and meta-analytic reviews.
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Mar, Tracey Banivanua. The Contours of Agency. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037153.003.0005.
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This chapter examines photographs of Pacific Island women laboring in fields in Queensland in the late 1890s, arguing that colonial photography can be a critical means of filling archival silences. It reflects on how we may read this photography in layers, both as a candid snapshot of the physical world of the past, as well as a more subtle register of that world's ideological composition. This is significant in the context of colonial histories in the western Pacific and Australia where indigenous and colonized women's labor, and their contribution to colonial and colonized societies, has been subjected to the violence of a structural amnesia. Photography offers not only visual evidence of a barely told history of Pacific Islander women's labor as told through the agency of their physical presentation. In addition, the medium itself, the photograph and its visual language, points in interesting ways to the discursive contours that shaped indigenous and colonized women's agency.
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Hanlon, Christopher. Emerson’s Memory Loss. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842529.003.0002.
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This chapter examines Emerson’s 1870–71 lecture series Natural History of Intellect, which formed as Emerson’s experience of memory loss became profound, and registers its author’s shifting protocols for producing texts as he contended with changing patterns of cognition. Natural History of Intellect reflects upon Emerson’s increasing reliance upon his daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson, who assisted Emerson as he lectured and who eventually reshaped Emerson’s manuscript materials. Entering into conversation with other literary historians who challenge an account of Emerson’s thought that enshrines Emersonian individualism to the exclusion of more communal dimensions of transcendentalism, this chapter contends that the lecture series theorizes the terms of his collaboration with Ellen in ways that break with Emerson’s earlier tendency to lionize insular consciousness and to isolate the body from the mind, offering instead an account of first-person thought as if always interpenetrated with the thinking of other people.
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Stokes, Christopher. Romantic Prayer. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857808.001.0001.
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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has always been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, this book shifts attention to the quintessential articulation of religion as lived experience, as practice, and as a performative rather than descriptive phenomenon. In an era when the tenability and rationality of prayer were much contested, poetry—a form with its own interlinked history with prayer, especially via lyric—was a unique place to register what prayer meant in modernity. This study illustrates how the discourse of prayer continually intervened in the way that poetic practices evolved and responded to the religious and secular questions of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century moment. After laying out the details of prayer’s historical position in the Romantic era across a spread of religious traditions, it turns to a range of writers, from the identifiably religious to the staunchly sceptical. William Cowper and Anna Letitia Barbauld are shown to use poetry to reflect and reinvent the ideals of prayer inherited from their own Dissenting denominational histories. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s work is analysed as part of a long engagement with the rationality of prayer in modernity, culminating in an explicit ‘philosophy’ of prayer; William Wordsworth—by contrast—keeps prayer at an aesthetic distance, continually alluding to prayerful language but rarely committing to a devotional voice itself. John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron are treated in the context of departing from Christianity, under the influence of Enlightenment, materialist and atheist critique—what happens to prayer in poetry when prayer as a language is becoming impossible to maintain?
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Barnard, John Levi. Phillis Wheatley and the Affairs of State. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.003.0002.
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This chapter considers Phillis Wheatley as a political actor within the context of revolutionary-era Boston, and her political poetry as representative of the genre eighteenth-century readers would have known as the poem on the affairs of state. Within this larger category the chapter identifies two distinct yet related literary modes in Wheatley’s work. The first, her neoclassical poetics of political identification, engages with the revolutionary rhetoric of freedom as a means of linking the struggle of American revolutionaries with that of enslaved people in America. While this poetics of identification is rooted in a sense of optimism linked to the ethos of revolution, Wheatley simultaneously develops a poetics of opposition, which registers a lingering skepticism as to the likelihood of liberation for enslaved and free blacks in post-revolutionary America.
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Howard, Yetta. Ugly Differences. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041884.001.0001.
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Ugly Differences explores queer female sexuality’s symbiotic relationship with ugliness and offers a way to see worth in ugliness as a generative category for reimagining the inhabitation of gender, sexual, and ethnic differences. Ugliness, in this book, is a multipronged concept: it equates with the disagreeable and pejorative traits that are attributed to queerness; it aligns itself with nonwhite, nonmale, and nonheterosexual physicality and experience; and it refers to anti-aesthetic textual practices, which are located in/as underground culture. This study shows how late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century contexts of ugliness register discontent with culturally normative models of queerness and why the underground is necessary for articulating difference. Locating ugliness at the intersections of the physical, experiential, and textual, the book’s central claim is that queer female sexuality needs to be understood as ugliness and the repertoire of underground cultural practices becomes its obligatory archive. In Ugly Differences, accounting for a minoritarian queerness associated with gender, sexual, and ethnic differences requires turning to marginal forms and, as reflecting ugliness, these forms provide options outside heteronormative modes of being that open up possibilities for envisioning deeply counterintuitive domains of queer world-making.
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Clark, Catherine E. Paris and the Cliché of History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190681647.001.0001.
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Focusing on one of photography’s birthplaces, Paris and the Cliché of History tells the story of how photographs came to be imagined and deployed as documents of the past. It uncovers the changing conventions that drove the formation of public photo archives, the inclusion of photos on the pages of illustrated books, their place in historical exhibitions and public festivals, and the organization of amateur photo contests to document Paris. It explores how contemporaries looked at photos, new and old, through the lenses of war, occupation, urban renovation, and other traumas. From this point of view, Paris and the Cliché of History offers new versions of familiar stories about Haussmannization, the professionalization of history, the cultural effects of World War I, and the 1944 Liberation of Paris as well as the first in-depth accounts of the 1951 celebration of Paris’s birthday (the Bimillénaire de Paris) and the 100,000 photographs submitted to an ambitious effort to document the city for the future: the amateur photo contest “This was Paris in 1970.” It calls for historians to pull the curtain on using photographs as transparent windows onto the past and proposes a historical methodology that registers photographic production, circulation, and preservation as part and parcel of history itself. Ultimately the book presents a compelling argument for the importance of this history of photographs to the story of Paris since 1860 and to arguments about its reduction to a museum city, or merely an image, since the 1960s.
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Hazzard, Oli. John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822011.001.0001.
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This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange, by reading crucial episodes in John Ashbery’s oeuvre in the context of an ‘other tradition’ of twentieth-century English poets he himself has defined. This line runs from the editor of Ashbery’s recent Collected Poems, Mark Ford, through Lee Harwood in the late 1960s, F. T. Prince in the 1950s, to ‘chronologically the first and therefore most important influence’ on his own work, W. H. Auden. Through detailed close readings of the poetry of Ashbery and these English poets, original interviews, and extensive archival research, a new account of Ashbery’s ‘minor’ aesthetic and a significant re-mapping of postwar English poetry are presented. The biographical slant of the book is highly significant, as it reads these writers’ poetry and correspondence together for the first time, suggesting how major poetic innovations arose from specific social contexts, from the particulars of relations between poets, and also from a broader climate of transatlantic exchange as registered by each poet. The result is that both Ashbery himself, and the landscape of post-war English poetry, are viewed in a significantly new light.
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Polis, Stéphane. Linguistic Variation in Ancient Egyptian. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768104.003.0004.
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This chapter provides an overview of the types of linguistic variation attested in pre-demotic Egyptian. More specifically, a sociolinguistic perspective is adopted in order to describe the impact that extralinguistic factors—such as time, origin, and social status of the scribe, situation of communication—may have on the written performance at the time. It is observed that the dimensions of variation related to the scribes, while not entirely absent, are rather elusive in this corpus. Variation resulting from the contexts of communication, conversely, is significant: within a multifaceted scribal repertoire, each genre imposes the selection of specific linguistic registers, which range from greater vernacularity and variation to greater formality and standardization. In a final section, the community of Deir el-Medina, namely the settlement of (royal) tomb-builders during the New Kingdom, is in focus so as to describe the effects that this particular scribal environment had on the written production.
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Noakes, Lucy, Claire Langhamer, and Claudia Siebrecht, eds. Total War. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.001.0001.
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War is often lived through and remembered as a time of heightened emotional intensity. This edited collection places the emotions of war centre stage. It explores emotional responses in particular wartime locations, maps national and transnational emotional cultures, and proposes new ways of deploying emotion as an analytical device. Whilst grief and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience, and memory of war, this collection suggests that feelings such as love, shame, pride, jealousy, anger, and resentment also merit attention. This book explores the status and uses of emotion as a category of historical and contemporaneous analysis. It goes beyond the cataloguing of discrete feelings to consider the use of emotion to understand the past. It considers the emotional agency of historical actors and the contexts, modes, and time frames in which they communicated their feelings. Wartime provides a dynamic context for thinking through the possibilities and limitations of the emotional approach. This collection provides case studies that explain how emotional registers respond to world events. These range from First World War Germany, interwar France, and Second World War Britain to the Greek Civil War and to the post-war world. Several chapters trace the emotional legacy of war across different conflicts and to the present day: they show how past, present, and possible futures intersect in the emotions of a moment. They also reveal links between the intimate, the national, and the international, between interiority and sociality, and between conflict and its aftermath.
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Mallavarapu, Siddharth. Theorizing India’s Foreign Relations. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.3.
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The objective of this chapter is to attempt a best case argument for Indian theorizing on Indian foreign policy. This chapter explores early writings on Indian foreign policy and their theoretical underpinnings. While not consciously invoking the conventional registers of mainstream IR theorizing, some key figures in the first generation of disciplinary international studies in India sought to approach the world on their own terms. In this chapter the author grapples with what might be gained from engaging these early accounts. While the general lament remains that generically foreign policy has been under-theorized, the author points to research directions that might nudge future scholars in the field to pay greater heed to context and local accents, introduce a stronger comparative dimension, and systematically pursue theoretical openings made possible by a closer reading of the first generation of Indian international relations writings on foreign policy.
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Goodman, Jessica. The Rules of the Game. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198796626.003.0005.
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This chapter’s examination of the registers of the Comédie-Italienne provides more detailed context to Goldoni’s career at the Hôtel de Bourgogne by focusing specifically on the status of the author in this theatre. A detailed account of the payments made to the opéra-comique authors working alongside Goldoni illustrates his particular value to the troupe. This data modifies the straightforward vision of the Comédie-Italienne as a lucrative commercial venue; however, a consideration of relative timescales for payment also suggests that although payments there were often low, the theatre’s accessibility with respect to the Comédie-Française could nonetheless still make it attractive. Goldoni’s employment by the Italian troupe is posited as not only an attempt to address increasingly pressing economic concerns, as recent re-evaluations suggest, but also as part of a move by the theatre’s administration to re-enter an older logic of prestige and historical status.
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Cohan, Steven. Monstrous Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865788.003.0005.
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This chapter is the mirror image of the previous one. It looks at narratives about has-been female stars in the context of the studio system’s demise during the 1950s and 1960s. These somewhat later backstudios depict the agency and sexuality of an older female star, who no longer has the safe haven of the studio to control or at least cushion her excessive behavior, as a “monstrous” perversion of femininity. In these films the mature female star personifies the incoherence of the Hollywood brand as a result of the studio system’s implosion, just as her excessive figure is treated as its cause, not its symptom. The chapter closes with a glance at the millennial backstudio, S1m0ne (2002), which takes as its premise the possibility of a computer-generated star and which registers the same anxieties about powerful female actors that these midcentury backstudios enact.
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McFarlane, Ben, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield. Land Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198735328.001.0001.
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Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This text incorporates a unique approach to land law which helps students understand how rules work in isolation as well as how they interlink. This approach provides the tools to accomplish high-level analysis quickly. Significant cases are emphasized here and are used to illustrate rules. Topics covered include: an introduction to what land law is, human rights, personal and property rights, and registered title. Chapters also look at the acquisition of equitable interests, trusts of land, leases, mortgages, security interest in land, easements, freehold covenants, and the defences question. Finally, the text ends with an overview of concepts and contexts.
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McFarlane, Ben, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield. Land Law. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198831877.001.0001.
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Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This text incorporates a unique approach to land law which helps students understand how rules work in isolation as well as how they interlink. This approach provides the tools to accomplish high-level analysis quickly. Significant cases are emphasized here and are used to illustrate rules. Topics covered include: an introduction to what land law is, human rights, personal and property rights, and registered title. Chapters also look at the acquisition of equitable interests, trusts of land, leases, mortgages, security interest in land, easements, freehold covenants, and the defences question. Finally, the text ends with an overview of concepts and contexts.