A. H. Halsey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266609
- eISBN:
- 9780191601019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266603.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
Before 1950 sociology in Britain scarcely existed. The subject was almost exclusively confined to the London School of Economics. But there were at least a dozen well‐known names. Spencer, Booth, and ...
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Before 1950 sociology in Britain scarcely existed. The subject was almost exclusively confined to the London School of Economics. But there were at least a dozen well‐known names. Spencer, Booth, and Rowntree had no academic connections. Three were Scots—Geddes, Branford, and McIver: of the others, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Westermaark, Hobhouse, Beveridge, Ginsberg, T.H. Marshall, Mannheim, and Carr‐Saunders were connected with LSE. Barbara Wootton was at Bedford College, London. Each one is treated here briefly and biographically. There is briefly also, a comparison with social anthropology up to 1950. No equivalent to the Parsonian school of American functionalism emerged: there was no Weber circle, no Durkheimian, or Chicagoan school established.Less
Before 1950 sociology in Britain scarcely existed. The subject was almost exclusively confined to the London School of Economics. But there were at least a dozen well‐known names. Spencer, Booth, and Rowntree had no academic connections. Three were Scots—Geddes, Branford, and McIver: of the others, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Westermaark, Hobhouse, Beveridge, Ginsberg, T.H. Marshall, Mannheim, and Carr‐Saunders were connected with LSE. Barbara Wootton was at Bedford College, London. Each one is treated here briefly and biographically. There is briefly also, a comparison with social anthropology up to 1950. No equivalent to the Parsonian school of American functionalism emerged: there was no Weber circle, no Durkheimian, or Chicagoan school established.
Berys Gaut
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199263219
- eISBN:
- 9780191718854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263219.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This chapter criticizes an argument of Wayne Booth, which defends ethical criticism in terms of the notion of befriending a work's implied author. It then defends the moral beauty view, which holds ...
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This chapter criticizes an argument of Wayne Booth, which defends ethical criticism in terms of the notion of befriending a work's implied author. It then defends the moral beauty view, which holds that ethical merit is a kind of beauty. The views of Hume and Colin McGinn on moral beauty are discussed. It is also argued that beauty is not essentially a sensory property. The moral beauty view is used to argue for ethicism. Autonomist and contextualist arguments against this argument are criticized.Less
This chapter criticizes an argument of Wayne Booth, which defends ethical criticism in terms of the notion of befriending a work's implied author. It then defends the moral beauty view, which holds that ethical merit is a kind of beauty. The views of Hume and Colin McGinn on moral beauty are discussed. It is also argued that beauty is not essentially a sensory property. The moral beauty view is used to argue for ethicism. Autonomist and contextualist arguments against this argument are criticized.
Timothy Larsen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199570096
- eISBN:
- 9780191725661
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570096.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Biblical Studies
William Cooke, a prominent Methodist New Connexion minister, was a systematic theologian. Nevertheless, his theological method was centred on the authority and evidence of Scripture. Catherine Booth ...
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William Cooke, a prominent Methodist New Connexion minister, was a systematic theologian. Nevertheless, his theological method was centred on the authority and evidence of Scripture. Catherine Booth was the mother of the Salvation Army. Although this was a departure from traditional Methodist practices in some ways, Catherine and William Booth envisioned their new religious movement as even more thoroughly biblical than past ones. Catherine Booth is a striking example of someone who viewed her own life experiences through the lens of scriptural passages.Less
William Cooke, a prominent Methodist New Connexion minister, was a systematic theologian. Nevertheless, his theological method was centred on the authority and evidence of Scripture. Catherine Booth was the mother of the Salvation Army. Although this was a departure from traditional Methodist practices in some ways, Catherine and William Booth envisioned their new religious movement as even more thoroughly biblical than past ones. Catherine Booth is a striking example of someone who viewed her own life experiences through the lens of scriptural passages.
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691149165
- eISBN:
- 9781400848171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691149165.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter traces the complex politics of inflation from the onset of wage-price controls in 1971 through the peak of America's inflationary experience during the Carter administration. During ...
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This chapter traces the complex politics of inflation from the onset of wage-price controls in 1971 through the peak of America's inflationary experience during the Carter administration. During those years, the country's major business associations successfully mobilized a powerful lobbying operation by negotiating the new political terrain that inflation created. From the frustrating nadir, typified by the public spat between treasury secretary John Connally and Vice President Arch Booth, organized business leaders rebounded mightily, successfully engaging in both ideological debates and interest group politics to bolster their institutional unity and achieve clear policy victories. Historically, battles over price instability emerged along the class lines created by an industrial political economy—they pitted the interests of workers against those of employers, or labor against capital.Less
This chapter traces the complex politics of inflation from the onset of wage-price controls in 1971 through the peak of America's inflationary experience during the Carter administration. During those years, the country's major business associations successfully mobilized a powerful lobbying operation by negotiating the new political terrain that inflation created. From the frustrating nadir, typified by the public spat between treasury secretary John Connally and Vice President Arch Booth, organized business leaders rebounded mightily, successfully engaging in both ideological debates and interest group politics to bolster their institutional unity and achieve clear policy victories. Historically, battles over price instability emerged along the class lines created by an industrial political economy—they pitted the interests of workers against those of employers, or labor against capital.
John W. Boyer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226242514
- eISBN:
- 9780226242651
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226242651.003.0007
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
This chapter highlights major themes of the previous chapters up to the current day. It explores the work of Hanna Gray in rebuilding university finances and fundraising in the 1980s and in ...
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This chapter highlights major themes of the previous chapters up to the current day. It explores the work of Hanna Gray in rebuilding university finances and fundraising in the 1980s and in sustaining the intellectual luster of the faculty. It also chronicles the very controversial reforms initiated by Hugo Sonnenschein to expand the College, a process that university leaders then accelerated after 2000, making the College today the largest single unit of the University of Chicago. The chapter explores the history of the Law School and Business School as examples of the emergence of a special kind of interdisciplinary professional research culture in the professional schools at Chicago that came to characterize Chicago after the 1950s. The chapter also explores the next stages of Chicago’s relationship with its neighbourhood and the city more broadly, using the history of the Charter School project and the Urban Education Institute as examples of new forms of university-civic engagement. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion on the contemporary value culture of the University, as exemplified in two major interventions of the 1950s and 1960s—the Kalven Report and the Redfield-Singer civilizations project.Less
This chapter highlights major themes of the previous chapters up to the current day. It explores the work of Hanna Gray in rebuilding university finances and fundraising in the 1980s and in sustaining the intellectual luster of the faculty. It also chronicles the very controversial reforms initiated by Hugo Sonnenschein to expand the College, a process that university leaders then accelerated after 2000, making the College today the largest single unit of the University of Chicago. The chapter explores the history of the Law School and Business School as examples of the emergence of a special kind of interdisciplinary professional research culture in the professional schools at Chicago that came to characterize Chicago after the 1950s. The chapter also explores the next stages of Chicago’s relationship with its neighbourhood and the city more broadly, using the history of the Charter School project and the Urban Education Institute as examples of new forms of university-civic engagement. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion on the contemporary value culture of the University, as exemplified in two major interventions of the 1950s and 1960s—the Kalven Report and the Redfield-Singer civilizations project.
Pamela J. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225916
- eISBN:
- 9780520925854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225916.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The Booths's commitment to Methodism and their disenchantment with its rules and restrictions shaped the theology and practice of the Christian Mission and the Salvation Army. Their encounter with ...
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The Booths's commitment to Methodism and their disenchantment with its rules and restrictions shaped the theology and practice of the Christian Mission and the Salvation Army. Their encounter with revivalism and holiness theology influenced how they evangelized. Among the most significant and groundbreaking features of the Salvation Army was the unusual prominence and authority of women. Catherine Booth was the decisive intellectual and practical influence on these unique status Salvationist women. She exemplified a new model of Christian womanhood, articulating a new approach to female ministry and creating an influential career as an evangelist. As well as formulating the Salvation Army's egalitarian policies, she served as an inspiration to thousands of young women who preached under the aegis of the organization. The Salvation Army's history must begin with the religious culture, theological concerns, and individual lives of William and Catherine Booth.Less
The Booths's commitment to Methodism and their disenchantment with its rules and restrictions shaped the theology and practice of the Christian Mission and the Salvation Army. Their encounter with revivalism and holiness theology influenced how they evangelized. Among the most significant and groundbreaking features of the Salvation Army was the unusual prominence and authority of women. Catherine Booth was the decisive intellectual and practical influence on these unique status Salvationist women. She exemplified a new model of Christian womanhood, articulating a new approach to female ministry and creating an influential career as an evangelist. As well as formulating the Salvation Army's egalitarian policies, she served as an inspiration to thousands of young women who preached under the aegis of the organization. The Salvation Army's history must begin with the religious culture, theological concerns, and individual lives of William and Catherine Booth.
Pamela J. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225916
- eISBN:
- 9780520925854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225916.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The Salvation Army, founded by William and Catherine Booth, began as the East London Christian Mission in 1865. The Booths, along with a small group of associates, preached in the streets of the East ...
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The Salvation Army, founded by William and Catherine Booth, began as the East London Christian Mission in 1865. The Booths, along with a small group of associates, preached in the streets of the East End and in rented halls. In 1878, its mission stations were found not only in London but along the south coast, in the Midlands, and in the north, with 127 paid evangelists and 700 voluntary workers. That same year, it adopted the name Salvation Army. Its distinctive uniforms, ranks, and military vocabulary; its tracts, called Hallelujah Torpedoes; and its prayer services, known as knee drill, followed. Salvationists became stock figures of fun in music halls, popular theater, and comic magazines. These battles are critical to an understanding of working-class religiosity and culture more broadly. A second approach to Victorian religion proceeded from the influential work of social historians E. P. Thompson and E. J. Hobsbawm.Less
The Salvation Army, founded by William and Catherine Booth, began as the East London Christian Mission in 1865. The Booths, along with a small group of associates, preached in the streets of the East End and in rented halls. In 1878, its mission stations were found not only in London but along the south coast, in the Midlands, and in the north, with 127 paid evangelists and 700 voluntary workers. That same year, it adopted the name Salvation Army. Its distinctive uniforms, ranks, and military vocabulary; its tracts, called Hallelujah Torpedoes; and its prayer services, known as knee drill, followed. Salvationists became stock figures of fun in music halls, popular theater, and comic magazines. These battles are critical to an understanding of working-class religiosity and culture more broadly. A second approach to Victorian religion proceeded from the influential work of social historians E. P. Thompson and E. J. Hobsbawm.
Pamela J. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225916
- eISBN:
- 9780520925854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225916.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The year 1890 was a turning point for the Salvation Army. Its leadership changed, and it launched a social services wing that would divide the organization in two and soon dominate the public ...
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The year 1890 was a turning point for the Salvation Army. Its leadership changed, and it launched a social services wing that would divide the organization in two and soon dominate the public perception of the Salvation Army. When Catherine Booth died, fifty thousand people filed past her coffin, and thirty thousand people lined the streets of London to watch her funeral procession wind toward Abney Park cemetery. The Salvation Army had lost one of its most important theologians and preachers; as an example of female leadership and authority, she had inspired thousands of Salvationist women. William Booth lost his evangelical partner. He began to withdraw from much of the daily work of overseeing the Army. He traveled to Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States to see the Salvation Army in action. He was later recognized with the publication of his book, Darkest England.Less
The year 1890 was a turning point for the Salvation Army. Its leadership changed, and it launched a social services wing that would divide the organization in two and soon dominate the public perception of the Salvation Army. When Catherine Booth died, fifty thousand people filed past her coffin, and thirty thousand people lined the streets of London to watch her funeral procession wind toward Abney Park cemetery. The Salvation Army had lost one of its most important theologians and preachers; as an example of female leadership and authority, she had inspired thousands of Salvationist women. William Booth lost his evangelical partner. He began to withdraw from much of the daily work of overseeing the Army. He traveled to Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States to see the Salvation Army in action. He was later recognized with the publication of his book, Darkest England.
Suzanne Keen
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195175769
- eISBN:
- 9780199851232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195175769.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines several kinds of evidence about reactions to reading a novel based on a study conducted by Wayne Booth which surveyed readers of different ages and backgrounds about the novels ...
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This chapter examines several kinds of evidence about reactions to reading a novel based on a study conducted by Wayne Booth which surveyed readers of different ages and backgrounds about the novels that had led them to make a change in their behavior or beliefs. It discusses readers' experiences related to narrative empathy and explains a set of working hypotheses about the qualities of novels that evoke empathy in readers. It also analyzes the result of empirical studies concerning the effects of reading and discusses ideas about readers' empathy.Less
This chapter examines several kinds of evidence about reactions to reading a novel based on a study conducted by Wayne Booth which surveyed readers of different ages and backgrounds about the novels that had led them to make a change in their behavior or beliefs. It discusses readers' experiences related to narrative empathy and explains a set of working hypotheses about the qualities of novels that evoke empathy in readers. It also analyzes the result of empirical studies concerning the effects of reading and discusses ideas about readers' empathy.
Gregory Currie
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199256280
- eISBN:
- 9780191601712
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199256284.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Argues for a rethinking of the standard account of narrative unreliability. Works can be unreliable in many ways, and unreliable works do not, the author claims, always have unreliable narrators. ...
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Argues for a rethinking of the standard account of narrative unreliability. Works can be unreliable in many ways, and unreliable works do not, the author claims, always have unreliable narrators. Narrative theory needs to focus more on unreliable works, less on unreliable narrators. As an example of this, the author uses Ford's The Searchers.Less
Argues for a rethinking of the standard account of narrative unreliability. Works can be unreliable in many ways, and unreliable works do not, the author claims, always have unreliable narrators. Narrative theory needs to focus more on unreliable works, less on unreliable narrators. As an example of this, the author uses Ford's The Searchers.
Thomas Dixon
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264263
- eISBN:
- 9780191734816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264263.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
The 1880s were the pivotal years in Victorian moral thought. A new wave of awareness of the plight of the urban poor was expressed in a range of both practical and intellectual activities. Some, such ...
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The 1880s were the pivotal years in Victorian moral thought. A new wave of awareness of the plight of the urban poor was expressed in a range of both practical and intellectual activities. Some, such as Charles Booth, committed themselves to a vast project of social-scientific surveying and classifying of the urban poor. The 1880s was also the decade that saw the flourishing of respectable unbelief. The atheist Charles Bradlaugh took his seat in Parliament, and the agnostic Thomas Huxley became president of the Royal Society. The best-selling novel of the decade, Mrs Humphry Ward’s Robert Elsmere (1888), told the story of an Anglican clergyman losing his faith and founding a new religious brotherhood in the East End of London based on a humanistic reinterpretation of Christianity.Less
The 1880s were the pivotal years in Victorian moral thought. A new wave of awareness of the plight of the urban poor was expressed in a range of both practical and intellectual activities. Some, such as Charles Booth, committed themselves to a vast project of social-scientific surveying and classifying of the urban poor. The 1880s was also the decade that saw the flourishing of respectable unbelief. The atheist Charles Bradlaugh took his seat in Parliament, and the agnostic Thomas Huxley became president of the Royal Society. The best-selling novel of the decade, Mrs Humphry Ward’s Robert Elsmere (1888), told the story of an Anglican clergyman losing his faith and founding a new religious brotherhood in the East End of London based on a humanistic reinterpretation of Christianity.
Hans L. Trefousse
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823224685
- eISBN:
- 9780823234936
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823224685.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great ...
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One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great Emancipator and savior of the Union, second in stature only to George Washington. But was Lincoln always so exalted? Was he, as some historians argue, a poor President, deeply disliked, whose legacy was ennobled only by John Wilkes Booth's bullet? In this fascinating book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a remarkable range of primary documents—speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources—the book gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. The result is a masterly portrait of Lincoln the President in the eyes of his fellow Americans.Less
One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great Emancipator and savior of the Union, second in stature only to George Washington. But was Lincoln always so exalted? Was he, as some historians argue, a poor President, deeply disliked, whose legacy was ennobled only by John Wilkes Booth's bullet? In this fascinating book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a remarkable range of primary documents—speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources—the book gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. The result is a masterly portrait of Lincoln the President in the eyes of his fellow Americans.
Thomas P. Lowry
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232260
- eISBN:
- 9780823240784
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232260.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter shows that some citizens—including, surprisingly, a number of Union soldiers and sailors—were not saddened at all by President Lincoln's passing. In fact, many of them publicly expressed ...
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This chapter shows that some citizens—including, surprisingly, a number of Union soldiers and sailors—were not saddened at all by President Lincoln's passing. In fact, many of them publicly expressed joy over the assassination. Their doing so had legal ramifications, too, for merely expressing satisfaction at Booth's deed often resulted in imprisonment, a fine, or both. The chapter examines seventy-eight long-ignored files in the National Archives involving cases of those tried for rejoicing over Lincoln's death. In such cases, the protections of the First Amendment were overwhelmed by public anger—and by sometimes harsh prosecution—at citizens who would applaud the murder of a president.Less
This chapter shows that some citizens—including, surprisingly, a number of Union soldiers and sailors—were not saddened at all by President Lincoln's passing. In fact, many of them publicly expressed joy over the assassination. Their doing so had legal ramifications, too, for merely expressing satisfaction at Booth's deed often resulted in imprisonment, a fine, or both. The chapter examines seventy-eight long-ignored files in the National Archives involving cases of those tried for rejoicing over Lincoln's death. In such cases, the protections of the First Amendment were overwhelmed by public anger—and by sometimes harsh prosecution—at citizens who would applaud the murder of a president.
Edward Steers Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232260
- eISBN:
- 9780823240784
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232260.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter offers a stout defense of the military tribunal that convened under the supervision of General David Hunter and was prosecuted by Judge Advocate General Holt. In 1865, the District of ...
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This chapter offers a stout defense of the military tribunal that convened under the supervision of General David Hunter and was prosecuted by Judge Advocate General Holt. In 1865, the District of Columbia, scene of the trial, remained under martial law. It is argued that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was clearly constitutional under the prevailing war conditions, and that it met the standard outlined in Article I, section 9, clause 2 of the Constitution, which states that the writ may be suspended as the “public safety may require it.” The chapter offers a valuable reminder that the Lincoln assassination prosecution focused not only on obtaining a conviction of the conspirators but also on linking Booth's small gang of hangers-on and ne'er-do-wells to the Confederate government. To Hunter and Holt, it is sometimes forgotten, it was President Jefferson Davis, as much as the conspirators themselves, who deserved to stand trial.Less
This chapter offers a stout defense of the military tribunal that convened under the supervision of General David Hunter and was prosecuted by Judge Advocate General Holt. In 1865, the District of Columbia, scene of the trial, remained under martial law. It is argued that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was clearly constitutional under the prevailing war conditions, and that it met the standard outlined in Article I, section 9, clause 2 of the Constitution, which states that the writ may be suspended as the “public safety may require it.” The chapter offers a valuable reminder that the Lincoln assassination prosecution focused not only on obtaining a conviction of the conspirators but also on linking Booth's small gang of hangers-on and ne'er-do-wells to the Confederate government. To Hunter and Holt, it is sometimes forgotten, it was President Jefferson Davis, as much as the conspirators themselves, who deserved to stand trial.
Werner Hüllen
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199254729
- eISBN:
- 9780191719868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199254729.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
This chapter presents a detailed history of the topical tradition in English and Continental lexicography. It includes a conspectus of John Wilkins's ‘Tables’, that is, the semantic part of his ...
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This chapter presents a detailed history of the topical tradition in English and Continental lexicography. It includes a conspectus of John Wilkins's ‘Tables’, that is, the semantic part of his universal language scheme which, in fact, is a thesaurus of words ordered according to philosophical later principles. Around 1700, this topical tradition came to a halt, but started anew within a different framework inspired by the innovative spirit of John Locke. Works discussed in this chapter include Parsigraphie by Jean de Maimieux (1797a, h), which is a new version of Wilkins's universal language scheme, and David Booth's abandoned plan of an analytical dictionary (1835).Less
This chapter presents a detailed history of the topical tradition in English and Continental lexicography. It includes a conspectus of John Wilkins's ‘Tables’, that is, the semantic part of his universal language scheme which, in fact, is a thesaurus of words ordered according to philosophical later principles. Around 1700, this topical tradition came to a halt, but started anew within a different framework inspired by the innovative spirit of John Locke. Works discussed in this chapter include Parsigraphie by Jean de Maimieux (1797a, h), which is a new version of Wilkins's universal language scheme, and David Booth's abandoned plan of an analytical dictionary (1835).
Mark A. Lause
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036552
- eISBN:
- 9780252093593
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036552.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that ...
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This history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, the book analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European Revolutions of 1848. The book traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, including the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. It shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions and may have played a part in key events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860–1861.Less
This history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, the book analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European Revolutions of 1848. The book traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, including the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. It shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions and may have played a part in key events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860–1861.
Elaine Freedgood
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691193304
- eISBN:
- 9780691194301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691193304.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter discusses two very different forms of omniscience, and Wayne Booth famously described and deconstructed them in A Rhetoric of Fiction. The Victorian novel is, at a certain point, annexed ...
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This chapter discusses two very different forms of omniscience, and Wayne Booth famously described and deconstructed them in A Rhetoric of Fiction. The Victorian novel is, at a certain point, annexed to a structuralist idea of French realism, which is imagined as free of intrusive narration. These combined critical moves regularize the Victorian novel into something less interesting and less problematic than what it had been for previous generations of more skeptical critics, or critics for whom that novel was not yet great. The chapter also explains that the pleasure of the text is also the pleasure of consenting to not knowing, to knowing that one does not know and having that be a condition of being in the world. Readers do not identify with characters because they are like people, but because readers are like characters, relying on forms of omniscience to keep narrating various aspects of reality for them. Omniscience hangs around as an omnipresent narrative and epistemological form. Disembodied but not disempowered, dismembered but not defunctioned.Less
This chapter discusses two very different forms of omniscience, and Wayne Booth famously described and deconstructed them in A Rhetoric of Fiction. The Victorian novel is, at a certain point, annexed to a structuralist idea of French realism, which is imagined as free of intrusive narration. These combined critical moves regularize the Victorian novel into something less interesting and less problematic than what it had been for previous generations of more skeptical critics, or critics for whom that novel was not yet great. The chapter also explains that the pleasure of the text is also the pleasure of consenting to not knowing, to knowing that one does not know and having that be a condition of being in the world. Readers do not identify with characters because they are like people, but because readers are like characters, relying on forms of omniscience to keep narrating various aspects of reality for them. Omniscience hangs around as an omnipresent narrative and epistemological form. Disembodied but not disempowered, dismembered but not defunctioned.
Pamela J. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225916
- eISBN:
- 9780520925854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225916.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The Christian Mission was part of a broad evangelical missionary effort to reach the urban working class. Its theology drew on Methodism, American revivalism, and the holiness movement. William ...
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The Christian Mission was part of a broad evangelical missionary effort to reach the urban working class. Its theology drew on Methodism, American revivalism, and the holiness movement. William Booth's open-air preaching was similar to the work which had been carried out by evangelicals for decades. The Mission, however, differed from other home missions. The authority it granted women, its emphasis on holiness theology and revivalist methods, its growing independence, and its strict hierarchical structure were all features that sharply distinguished it from its contemporaries. As the movement grew, William Booth determined that the democratic system borrowed from the Methodists for the first fourteen years had to be abandoned in favor of an autocratic and hierarchical structure. Under the banner of the Salvation Army, disciplined and faithful soldiers and officers fought the enemy in the streets, music halls, and gin palaces of England's urban working-class communities.Less
The Christian Mission was part of a broad evangelical missionary effort to reach the urban working class. Its theology drew on Methodism, American revivalism, and the holiness movement. William Booth's open-air preaching was similar to the work which had been carried out by evangelicals for decades. The Mission, however, differed from other home missions. The authority it granted women, its emphasis on holiness theology and revivalist methods, its growing independence, and its strict hierarchical structure were all features that sharply distinguished it from its contemporaries. As the movement grew, William Booth determined that the democratic system borrowed from the Methodists for the first fourteen years had to be abandoned in favor of an autocratic and hierarchical structure. Under the banner of the Salvation Army, disciplined and faithful soldiers and officers fought the enemy in the streets, music halls, and gin palaces of England's urban working-class communities.
George Washington Williams
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823233854
- eISBN:
- 9780823240807
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823233854.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Fort Pillow was in Tennessee, about forty miles from Memphis. The garrison consisted of 295 men of the Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry, under the command of Major W. F. Bradford, and 262 men of ...
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Fort Pillow was in Tennessee, about forty miles from Memphis. The garrison consisted of 295 men of the Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry, under the command of Major W. F. Bradford, and 262 men of the Sixth United States Heavy Artillery (Negroes), making 557 men in total, all under the command of Major L. F. Booth, of the Artillery. The slave system made the entire South brutal, and many soldiers of the Confederate army were exceedingly cruel to prisoners. There were two classes of troop in the Union army against whom the rebels manifested at all times the most bitter feeling: Union white Southerners and ex-slaves. The rebels despised the latter for fighting against their old masters and for their freedom; they hated the former on account of their loyal sentiments and association with Negroes in arms. One of the most cruel exhibitions of Confederate malice was the massacre of the garrison of Fort Pillow after it had surrendered. The massacre occurred in April 1864, led by Major-general N. B. Forrest.Less
Fort Pillow was in Tennessee, about forty miles from Memphis. The garrison consisted of 295 men of the Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry, under the command of Major W. F. Bradford, and 262 men of the Sixth United States Heavy Artillery (Negroes), making 557 men in total, all under the command of Major L. F. Booth, of the Artillery. The slave system made the entire South brutal, and many soldiers of the Confederate army were exceedingly cruel to prisoners. There were two classes of troop in the Union army against whom the rebels manifested at all times the most bitter feeling: Union white Southerners and ex-slaves. The rebels despised the latter for fighting against their old masters and for their freedom; they hated the former on account of their loyal sentiments and association with Negroes in arms. One of the most cruel exhibitions of Confederate malice was the massacre of the garrison of Fort Pillow after it had surrendered. The massacre occurred in April 1864, led by Major-general N. B. Forrest.
Ethan Mordden
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195140583
- eISBN:
- 9780199848867
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140583.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The problem with By the Beautiful Sea (1954) was that all the Shiriey Booth in the world could not fill a show without a story. The Herbert and Dorothy Fields book was less interested in character ...
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The problem with By the Beautiful Sea (1954) was that all the Shiriey Booth in the world could not fill a show without a story. The Herbert and Dorothy Fields book was less interested in character than in maintaining a steady tempo in moving back and forth among the three big sets: one, the backyard of Lottie's theatrical boarding house; two, the Coney Island midway of ferris wheel, Steeplechase Park, and tunnel of love; and three, the Dreamland Casino. In between, obligatory for the scene changes, were the little scenes in one. That meant that a goodly portion of the action was given over to incidentals involving singing waiters, sailors and their dates, and so on. In contrast, Plain and Fancy (1955) is a musical comedy that one could easily resuscitate, because its strength lies in its story and characters and score: musical comedy as an author's triumph.Less
The problem with By the Beautiful Sea (1954) was that all the Shiriey Booth in the world could not fill a show without a story. The Herbert and Dorothy Fields book was less interested in character than in maintaining a steady tempo in moving back and forth among the three big sets: one, the backyard of Lottie's theatrical boarding house; two, the Coney Island midway of ferris wheel, Steeplechase Park, and tunnel of love; and three, the Dreamland Casino. In between, obligatory for the scene changes, were the little scenes in one. That meant that a goodly portion of the action was given over to incidentals involving singing waiters, sailors and their dates, and so on. In contrast, Plain and Fancy (1955) is a musical comedy that one could easily resuscitate, because its strength lies in its story and characters and score: musical comedy as an author's triumph.
