Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199274888
- eISBN:
- 9780191714962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274888.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter deals with Hannah More's last years, a period of bereavement, increasing frailty, and reactionary politics. In response to the post-1815 radical publications, she published Cheap ...
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This chapter deals with Hannah More's last years, a period of bereavement, increasing frailty, and reactionary politics. In response to the post-1815 radical publications, she published Cheap Repository Tracts suited to the Present Times. Her Moral Sketches acquired mild notoriety because of its francophobic attack on British visitors to France. The Queen Caroline affair and Catholic emancipation reinforced her Toryism. She joined the Ultra Constitutional Association. She was suspicious of some of he new trends in Evangelicalism and came to distrust the millenarian preacher Edward Irving. Forced to leave Barley Wood because of the depredations of her servants, she died at Clifton in 1833.Less
This chapter deals with Hannah More's last years, a period of bereavement, increasing frailty, and reactionary politics. In response to the post-1815 radical publications, she published Cheap Repository Tracts suited to the Present Times. Her Moral Sketches acquired mild notoriety because of its francophobic attack on British visitors to France. The Queen Caroline affair and Catholic emancipation reinforced her Toryism. She joined the Ultra Constitutional Association. She was suspicious of some of he new trends in Evangelicalism and came to distrust the millenarian preacher Edward Irving. Forced to leave Barley Wood because of the depredations of her servants, she died at Clifton in 1833.
Heather Martel
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066189
- eISBN:
- 9780813058399
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066189.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Deadly Virtue argues that the history of the French Calvinist attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s is key to understanding the roots of American whiteness in sixteenth-century colonialism, ...
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Deadly Virtue argues that the history of the French Calvinist attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s is key to understanding the roots of American whiteness in sixteenth-century colonialism, science, and Protestantism. The book places the history of Fort Caroline, Florida, into the context of Protestant colonialism and understandings of the body, emotion, and identity held in common by travelers throughout the early Atlantic world. Protestants envisioned finding a rich and powerful Indigenous king, converting him to Christianity, and then establishing a Protestant-Indigenous alliance to build an empire under Indigenous leadership that would compete with European monarchies. However, when the colony was wiped out by the Spanish, these Protestants took this as a condemnation from their god for this plan of collaborating with Indigenous people and developed separatist strategies for future Protestant colonial projects. By introducing the reader to the humoral model of the body, this book shows how race, gender, sexuality, and Christian morality came to intersect in modern understandings of whiteness.Less
Deadly Virtue argues that the history of the French Calvinist attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s is key to understanding the roots of American whiteness in sixteenth-century colonialism, science, and Protestantism. The book places the history of Fort Caroline, Florida, into the context of Protestant colonialism and understandings of the body, emotion, and identity held in common by travelers throughout the early Atlantic world. Protestants envisioned finding a rich and powerful Indigenous king, converting him to Christianity, and then establishing a Protestant-Indigenous alliance to build an empire under Indigenous leadership that would compete with European monarchies. However, when the colony was wiped out by the Spanish, these Protestants took this as a condemnation from their god for this plan of collaborating with Indigenous people and developed separatist strategies for future Protestant colonial projects. By introducing the reader to the humoral model of the body, this book shows how race, gender, sexuality, and Christian morality came to intersect in modern understandings of whiteness.
David Bebbington
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267651
- eISBN:
- 9780191708220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267651.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In the 1840s Gladstone reached a Tractarian position, trying to attend the eucharist weekly, adopting fasting, and joining a lay confraternity. He took an interest in ecclesiastical decoration, ...
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In the 1840s Gladstone reached a Tractarian position, trying to attend the eucharist weekly, adopting fasting, and joining a lay confraternity. He took an interest in ecclesiastical decoration, church music, and late mediaeval art. The 14th-century Florentine poet Dante captured his allegiance too. In his household Gladstone preached regular sermons that reveal his developing theological stance. He urged a Catholic doctrine of the church and deprecated Evangelicalism, downplaying its characteristic stress on the atonement. Instead he placed emphasis on the eucharist as the place where the soul is nourished and on the incarnation as the fundamental Christian doctrine. He was swayed in this direction by the early fathers, the Caroline divines, and leading figures associated with the Oxford Movement —Newman, Pusey, Manning, and Robert Wilberforce.Less
In the 1840s Gladstone reached a Tractarian position, trying to attend the eucharist weekly, adopting fasting, and joining a lay confraternity. He took an interest in ecclesiastical decoration, church music, and late mediaeval art. The 14th-century Florentine poet Dante captured his allegiance too. In his household Gladstone preached regular sermons that reveal his developing theological stance. He urged a Catholic doctrine of the church and deprecated Evangelicalism, downplaying its characteristic stress on the atonement. Instead he placed emphasis on the eucharist as the place where the soul is nourished and on the incarnation as the fundamental Christian doctrine. He was swayed in this direction by the early fathers, the Caroline divines, and leading figures associated with the Oxford Movement —Newman, Pusey, Manning, and Robert Wilberforce.
B. W. Young
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199256228
- eISBN:
- 9780191719660
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256228.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Freud argued in his celebrated essay that ‘the family romance’ had a direct social consequence, since ‘the progress of society in general rests upon the opposition between the generations’. This ...
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Freud argued in his celebrated essay that ‘the family romance’ had a direct social consequence, since ‘the progress of society in general rests upon the opposition between the generations’. This chapter shows that Leslie Stephen and daughter Virginia Woolf effectively demonstrate the connection between Freud's contentions, and this is especially clear in their relations with the 18th century. The Stephen family emerged as a social, religious, and intellectual force at the very close of the 18th century, a period with which later members of the family, from Sir James Stephen (1789-1859), to his sons James Fitzjames (1829-94) and Leslie (1832-1904), and thence Virginia, became notably preoccupied. It is this Stephen family romance with the 18th century that is used here to explore a very particular dimension of the Victorians' preoccupation with their immediate predecessor generations. Central to this family romance is a rebellion against Christianity, from Leslie Stephen's open advocacy of agnosticism to Virginia Woolf's uncompromising atheism.Less
Freud argued in his celebrated essay that ‘the family romance’ had a direct social consequence, since ‘the progress of society in general rests upon the opposition between the generations’. This chapter shows that Leslie Stephen and daughter Virginia Woolf effectively demonstrate the connection between Freud's contentions, and this is especially clear in their relations with the 18th century. The Stephen family emerged as a social, religious, and intellectual force at the very close of the 18th century, a period with which later members of the family, from Sir James Stephen (1789-1859), to his sons James Fitzjames (1829-94) and Leslie (1832-1904), and thence Virginia, became notably preoccupied. It is this Stephen family romance with the 18th century that is used here to explore a very particular dimension of the Victorians' preoccupation with their immediate predecessor generations. Central to this family romance is a rebellion against Christianity, from Leslie Stephen's open advocacy of agnosticism to Virginia Woolf's uncompromising atheism.
William Seraile
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234196
- eISBN:
- 9780823240838
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234196.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The demise of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale was a sad event in the history of an institution that dated to 1836. The founders and early managers were mainly women who sought to do God's will ...
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The demise of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale was a sad event in the history of an institution that dated to 1836. The founders and early managers were mainly women who sought to do God's will by caring for abused and forsaken black children. They took on this mammoth effort at a time when African Americans were shunned by society. Oppressive laws prohibited much of their daily contact with their fellow white residents unless they were in a subordinate position. The white women, many of whom personally abhorred the horrors of slavery and who wished to do God's will by feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, did so at the risk of “unsexing” themselves in the eyes of their less Christian contemporaries. Men and women of means such as John Jacob Astor, R. H. Macy, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., William Jay, Anna Jay, Caroline Stokes, and many others contributed generously to the betterment of the orphan black child.Less
The demise of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale was a sad event in the history of an institution that dated to 1836. The founders and early managers were mainly women who sought to do God's will by caring for abused and forsaken black children. They took on this mammoth effort at a time when African Americans were shunned by society. Oppressive laws prohibited much of their daily contact with their fellow white residents unless they were in a subordinate position. The white women, many of whom personally abhorred the horrors of slavery and who wished to do God's will by feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, did so at the risk of “unsexing” themselves in the eyes of their less Christian contemporaries. Men and women of means such as John Jacob Astor, R. H. Macy, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., William Jay, Anna Jay, Caroline Stokes, and many others contributed generously to the betterment of the orphan black child.
David Worrall
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199276752
- eISBN:
- 9780191707643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276752.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
Queen Caroline of Brunswick exemplifies how theatricality continued to be a key ingredient in monarchy’s manipulation of public and semi-public space for political purposes. Her private theatrical ...
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Queen Caroline of Brunswick exemplifies how theatricality continued to be a key ingredient in monarchy’s manipulation of public and semi-public space for political purposes. Her private theatrical portrayal of the role of Hermione in The Winter’s Tale was meant to influence her anti-Regent followers but, upon her return to London in 1820, she realized how ‘illegitimate’ playhouses such as the Royal Coburg (now Old Vic) could assist her aims in reaching the popular audiences required to support her claim for consort status. Deprived of a royal patent, the Coburg’s very name deliberately alluded to Caroline’s deceased daughter’s husband, making it very much an anti-Regent playhouse. Commanding a royal performance at the Coburg, Caroline attended Marguerite! Or The Deserted Mother!, a work apparently mirroring her own predicament. Joe Cowell, a Coburg actor appearing on the night of her acquittal of adultery, has left a fascinating account of the audience’s spontaneous applause.Less
Queen Caroline of Brunswick exemplifies how theatricality continued to be a key ingredient in monarchy’s manipulation of public and semi-public space for political purposes. Her private theatrical portrayal of the role of Hermione in The Winter’s Tale was meant to influence her anti-Regent followers but, upon her return to London in 1820, she realized how ‘illegitimate’ playhouses such as the Royal Coburg (now Old Vic) could assist her aims in reaching the popular audiences required to support her claim for consort status. Deprived of a royal patent, the Coburg’s very name deliberately alluded to Caroline’s deceased daughter’s husband, making it very much an anti-Regent playhouse. Commanding a royal performance at the Coburg, Caroline attended Marguerite! Or The Deserted Mother!, a work apparently mirroring her own predicament. Joe Cowell, a Coburg actor appearing on the night of her acquittal of adultery, has left a fascinating account of the audience’s spontaneous applause.
John A. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198207559
- eISBN:
- 9780191716720
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207559.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Following from the analysis of brigandage and its causes, this chapter examines the consequences of Murat's increasingly insecure place in the imperial enterprise. The confrontation with Napoleon in ...
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Following from the analysis of brigandage and its causes, this chapter examines the consequences of Murat's increasingly insecure place in the imperial enterprise. The confrontation with Napoleon in 1811 increased divisions within his government (in which Caroline Bonaparte assumed much greater power). The implementation of key reforms — the abolition of feudalism, the division of the former feudal estates and common lands, and the reorganization of the law courts and the magistracy — was increasingly delegated to Neapolitans. Murat also increased his efforts to create an independent political base among the notables, public employees, the military, the clergy, and the people. He also tried to use freemasonry as means to strengthen contacts with the elites. But the results were uncertain, while the Masonic lodges provided the regime's opponents with the opportunity to develop a coherent political programme that focused on demands for constitutional government and an end to the Kingdom's colonial subordination to France and its empire.Less
Following from the analysis of brigandage and its causes, this chapter examines the consequences of Murat's increasingly insecure place in the imperial enterprise. The confrontation with Napoleon in 1811 increased divisions within his government (in which Caroline Bonaparte assumed much greater power). The implementation of key reforms — the abolition of feudalism, the division of the former feudal estates and common lands, and the reorganization of the law courts and the magistracy — was increasingly delegated to Neapolitans. Murat also increased his efforts to create an independent political base among the notables, public employees, the military, the clergy, and the people. He also tried to use freemasonry as means to strengthen contacts with the elites. But the results were uncertain, while the Masonic lodges provided the regime's opponents with the opportunity to develop a coherent political programme that focused on demands for constitutional government and an end to the Kingdom's colonial subordination to France and its empire.
Nicholas Rogers
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201724
- eISBN:
- 9780191674990
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201724.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the agitation surrounding the Queen Caroline affair of 1820, an event that has frequently been noted for its populist resonances, most recently by historians writing from a ...
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This chapter examines the agitation surrounding the Queen Caroline affair of 1820, an event that has frequently been noted for its populist resonances, most recently by historians writing from a post-modern perspective. It suggests that the demonstrations in Lancashire and London can be usefully decoded in class terms and situated within a context that foregrounds the struggle for political space.Less
This chapter examines the agitation surrounding the Queen Caroline affair of 1820, an event that has frequently been noted for its populist resonances, most recently by historians writing from a post-modern perspective. It suggests that the demonstrations in Lancashire and London can be usefully decoded in class terms and situated within a context that foregrounds the struggle for political space.
Maggie Kilgour
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199589432
- eISBN:
- 9780191738500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589432.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Chapter 2 positions the young Milton in relation to major trends of Caroline Ovidianism, represented by both the libertine poets and the court masques. Given the role of Ovid in courtly ...
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Chapter 2 positions the young Milton in relation to major trends of Caroline Ovidianism, represented by both the libertine poets and the court masques. Given the role of Ovid in courtly self‐representation, it suggests that rewriting Ovid drew Milton inevitably into political debates. It returns to the Latin works and Comus to look particularly at the moments when Milton reworks Ovid's Fasti. Drawing on recent scholarship on Ovid's poetic calendar, it demonstrates that the poem's experimentation with genre and its preoccupation with the poetics and politics of time spoke to the concerns of 16th‐ and 17th‐century English writers. Ovid's calendar is recalled in discussions by antiquarians of English holidays and customs, and in debates over chastity which looked back to the stories of Daphne and Lucrece. As well as playing a crucial role in Milton's poetical development, Ovid is bound up in his political awakening.Less
Chapter 2 positions the young Milton in relation to major trends of Caroline Ovidianism, represented by both the libertine poets and the court masques. Given the role of Ovid in courtly self‐representation, it suggests that rewriting Ovid drew Milton inevitably into political debates. It returns to the Latin works and Comus to look particularly at the moments when Milton reworks Ovid's Fasti. Drawing on recent scholarship on Ovid's poetic calendar, it demonstrates that the poem's experimentation with genre and its preoccupation with the poetics and politics of time spoke to the concerns of 16th‐ and 17th‐century English writers. Ovid's calendar is recalled in discussions by antiquarians of English holidays and customs, and in debates over chastity which looked back to the stories of Daphne and Lucrece. As well as playing a crucial role in Milton's poetical development, Ovid is bound up in his political awakening.
Helen Small
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184911
- eISBN:
- 9780191674396
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184911.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, the author presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical ...
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This book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, the author presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as insights into the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others. Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. This book traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association. This study challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between medicine and the novel.Less
This book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, the author presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as insights into the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others. Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. This book traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association. This study challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between medicine and the novel.
Andrew Gurr
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129776
- eISBN:
- 9780191671852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129776.003.0023
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Drama
The division of Caroline audiences between hall and amphitheatre playhouses is a stronger and more consistent way of distinguishing the ...
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The division of Caroline audiences between hall and amphitheatre playhouses is a stronger and more consistent way of distinguishing the Caroline companies than the division of the playing companies themselves. Companies switched between hall and amphitheatre, and between amphitheatre and amphitheatre, almost at three-yearly intervals. Hence, calling any of them a hall company or an amphitheatre company is rather misleading. Moreover, there is rarely sufficient evidence even about their repertories to identify any one company as principally hall-fixated or open-air-playhouse-orientated. But the process which appears to make all the companies interchangeable does not apply to the playhouses. Buildings are more resistant to change than the companies, and so were the playgoers who went to each playhouse. This chapter looks at the history of the Caroline hall companies: Queen Henrietta’s Men, King’s Revels, and Beeston’s Boys. It focuses on their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, their playing sharers, and their travelling records.Less
The division of Caroline audiences between hall and amphitheatre playhouses is a stronger and more consistent way of distinguishing the Caroline companies than the division of the playing companies themselves. Companies switched between hall and amphitheatre, and between amphitheatre and amphitheatre, almost at three-yearly intervals. Hence, calling any of them a hall company or an amphitheatre company is rather misleading. Moreover, there is rarely sufficient evidence even about their repertories to identify any one company as principally hall-fixated or open-air-playhouse-orientated. But the process which appears to make all the companies interchangeable does not apply to the playhouses. Buildings are more resistant to change than the companies, and so were the playgoers who went to each playhouse. This chapter looks at the history of the Caroline hall companies: Queen Henrietta’s Men, King’s Revels, and Beeston’s Boys. It focuses on their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, their playing sharers, and their travelling records.
Andrew Gurr
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129776
- eISBN:
- 9780191671852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129776.003.0024
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Drama
For all the increasing distinction that playgoers made in Caroline years between the hall-playhouse companies and the amphitheatre companies, ...
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For all the increasing distinction that playgoers made in Caroline years between the hall-playhouse companies and the amphitheatre companies, grouping them separately by the kind of playhouse they performed in can be misleading. Aside from the King’s Men straddling the two kinds of venue, the fact that one of the ‘citizen’ companies switched places with a hall company without any visible sign of discomfort either for their repertory, their acting style, or their playgoers suggests that company loyalty was never as fixed as audience loyalty. The court put its thumb into some of the hall-playhouse activities, but below that level of rich plums the general run of audiences proved more loyal to the playhouses than to individual playing companies and their repertories. This chapter looks at the history of the Caroline amphitheatre companies: the King and Queen of Bohemia’s Men, Prince Charles’s (II) Men, and the Red Bull Company. It focuses on their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, and their travelling records.Less
For all the increasing distinction that playgoers made in Caroline years between the hall-playhouse companies and the amphitheatre companies, grouping them separately by the kind of playhouse they performed in can be misleading. Aside from the King’s Men straddling the two kinds of venue, the fact that one of the ‘citizen’ companies switched places with a hall company without any visible sign of discomfort either for their repertory, their acting style, or their playgoers suggests that company loyalty was never as fixed as audience loyalty. The court put its thumb into some of the hall-playhouse activities, but below that level of rich plums the general run of audiences proved more loyal to the playhouses than to individual playing companies and their repertories. This chapter looks at the history of the Caroline amphitheatre companies: the King and Queen of Bohemia’s Men, Prince Charles’s (II) Men, and the Red Bull Company. It focuses on their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, and their travelling records.
Randolph Paul Runyon
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813152387
- eISBN:
- 9780813154206
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813152387.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Only three children survived him, all daughters. Caroline Green married in 1871 and moved with her family to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her son, Madison W. Baber (1873-1947), married into a prominent and ...
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Only three children survived him, all daughters. Caroline Green married in 1871 and moved with her family to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her son, Madison W. Baber (1873-1947), married into a prominent and storied black family that had been among the thirty slaves freed by abolitionist Moncure Conway, who took them by train through Confederate territory from Washington in July 1862 to Yellow Springs. Baber's daughter Bertha Morris lived long enough to vote against Barry Goldwater. Elisha Green is fondly remembered by his churches in both Maysville and Paris. In the latter city, the descendants of the congregation that rejected him in 1884 now claim him as their founder with as much pride as those of the original church, located one block away. Plymouth Baptist closed its doors in 1910. Clayville, the community of black homeowners he established in Paris, was replaced by new housing in the 1960s, but its name survives.Less
Only three children survived him, all daughters. Caroline Green married in 1871 and moved with her family to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her son, Madison W. Baber (1873-1947), married into a prominent and storied black family that had been among the thirty slaves freed by abolitionist Moncure Conway, who took them by train through Confederate territory from Washington in July 1862 to Yellow Springs. Baber's daughter Bertha Morris lived long enough to vote against Barry Goldwater. Elisha Green is fondly remembered by his churches in both Maysville and Paris. In the latter city, the descendants of the congregation that rejected him in 1884 now claim him as their founder with as much pride as those of the original church, located one block away. Plymouth Baptist closed its doors in 1910. Clayville, the community of black homeowners he established in Paris, was replaced by new housing in the 1960s, but its name survives.
Richard Cronin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199582532
- eISBN:
- 9780191722929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582532.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
It was a scandalous age, an age in which the Queen was, at the instigation of her husband, tried before the House of Lords for adultery. This chapter explores the disruption of the boundary ...
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It was a scandalous age, an age in which the Queen was, at the instigation of her husband, tried before the House of Lords for adultery. This chapter explores the disruption of the boundary separating the public from the private that produces scandal, focusing on Byron's separation crisis, Hazlitt's publication of Liber Amoris, and Edmund Kean's trial for crim. con. Such scandals are inevitable when the major cultural figures such as Kean and Byron generated such intense public interest by refusing clearly to distinguish between their private and their public selves, between the performer and the role.Less
It was a scandalous age, an age in which the Queen was, at the instigation of her husband, tried before the House of Lords for adultery. This chapter explores the disruption of the boundary separating the public from the private that produces scandal, focusing on Byron's separation crisis, Hazlitt's publication of Liber Amoris, and Edmund Kean's trial for crim. con. Such scandals are inevitable when the major cultural figures such as Kean and Byron generated such intense public interest by refusing clearly to distinguish between their private and their public selves, between the performer and the role.
John Kerrigan
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199248513
- eISBN:
- 9780191697753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248513.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter discusses works of Keats which present a Shakespearian quality, such as Lucrese. This poem, along with A Lover's Complaint, were ignored by Caroline Spurgeon. These two works of Keats ...
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This chapter discusses works of Keats which present a Shakespearian quality, such as Lucrese. This poem, along with A Lover's Complaint, were ignored by Caroline Spurgeon. These two works of Keats are able to reinforce assumptions about what Keats might correct in terms of what is considered to be distinctively Shakespearian.Less
This chapter discusses works of Keats which present a Shakespearian quality, such as Lucrese. This poem, along with A Lover's Complaint, were ignored by Caroline Spurgeon. These two works of Keats are able to reinforce assumptions about what Keats might correct in terms of what is considered to be distinctively Shakespearian.
Joel Williamson
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195101294
- eISBN:
- 9780199854233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195101294.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book begins with the detailed description of the ancestry of the Falkners. According to family tradition, William C. Falkner, the first Mississippi Falkner, entered Pontotoc, a village thirty ...
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This book begins with the detailed description of the ancestry of the Falkners. According to family tradition, William C. Falkner, the first Mississippi Falkner, entered Pontotoc, a village thirty miles east of Oxford, in 1842. William Falkner was born in 1825 near Knoxville, Tennessee, the first child of Joseph Falkner and Caroline Word. The past with the Hindmans is also told in this chapter. The Hindmans were great slaveholders who settled in the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1860, it was recorded that William Falkner's occupation was “Atty at Law.” In the middle 1850s, Falkner also tried politics, not as a Democrat, but as a “Know-Nothing.” William C. Falkner, contrary to popular myth, was never a great slaveholding planter. During the 1850s, William C. Falkner enjoyed an astonishing prosperity.Less
This book begins with the detailed description of the ancestry of the Falkners. According to family tradition, William C. Falkner, the first Mississippi Falkner, entered Pontotoc, a village thirty miles east of Oxford, in 1842. William Falkner was born in 1825 near Knoxville, Tennessee, the first child of Joseph Falkner and Caroline Word. The past with the Hindmans is also told in this chapter. The Hindmans were great slaveholders who settled in the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1860, it was recorded that William Falkner's occupation was “Atty at Law.” In the middle 1850s, Falkner also tried politics, not as a Democrat, but as a “Know-Nothing.” William C. Falkner, contrary to popular myth, was never a great slaveholding planter. During the 1850s, William C. Falkner enjoyed an astonishing prosperity.
Nicola J. Watson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112976
- eISBN:
- 9780191670893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112976.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter shifts ground to consider the after-life of the letter as it modulates, under the aegis of Rousseau's Confessions, into the quintessentially Romantic narratives of the early 19th ...
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This chapter shifts ground to consider the after-life of the letter as it modulates, under the aegis of Rousseau's Confessions, into the quintessentially Romantic narratives of the early 19th century. Such texts as Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris (1823), and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) — displaying in their convoluted and destabilized structures the residue of a revolutionary subjectivity premised upon self-authorizing discourse — sharply question the achieved if delicate certainties of the more conservative forms of the novel which form the topic of the two central chapters, by rendering the letter and its analogues, and thus the intricacies of revolutionary desire, effectively unreadable and thus immune from certain sorts of narrative discipline. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Lady Caroline Lamb's affair with Lord Byron, pursuing it through their consciously sentimental correspondence to the publication of Lamb's novel Glenarvon, and culminating with a reading of Byron's ‘novel in verse’, Don Juan, to show how this literary correspondence recapitulates the generic negotiations and mutations detailed in the bulk of this book.Less
This chapter shifts ground to consider the after-life of the letter as it modulates, under the aegis of Rousseau's Confessions, into the quintessentially Romantic narratives of the early 19th century. Such texts as Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris (1823), and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) — displaying in their convoluted and destabilized structures the residue of a revolutionary subjectivity premised upon self-authorizing discourse — sharply question the achieved if delicate certainties of the more conservative forms of the novel which form the topic of the two central chapters, by rendering the letter and its analogues, and thus the intricacies of revolutionary desire, effectively unreadable and thus immune from certain sorts of narrative discipline. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Lady Caroline Lamb's affair with Lord Byron, pursuing it through their consciously sentimental correspondence to the publication of Lamb's novel Glenarvon, and culminating with a reading of Byron's ‘novel in verse’, Don Juan, to show how this literary correspondence recapitulates the generic negotiations and mutations detailed in the bulk of this book.
Heather Glen
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199272556
- eISBN:
- 9780191699627
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272556.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In one sense, the ‘parallels’ between inarticulate private suffering and public official history are writ large in Shirley. This, it has seemed, is Charlotte Brontë's attempt to write a ...
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In one sense, the ‘parallels’ between inarticulate private suffering and public official history are writ large in Shirley. This, it has seemed, is Charlotte Brontë's attempt to write a ‘condition-of-England’ novel such as other of her contemporaries were producing in these years. The novel has always refused quite to fit that category. Its narrative focus shifts from one subject to another — the curates and their absurdities; the dispute between masters and men; Robert Moore's entrepreneurial ambitions; the story of Caroline Helstone's lonely decline; the aristocratic heiress, Shirley, her governess and her tutor; the extraordinary Yorke family and their concerns. There are chunks of text in foreign languages, old ballads, hymns, poems, even a school essay, interspersed with extended reflections upon such themes as the effects of the war with France and the sufferings of old maids.Less
In one sense, the ‘parallels’ between inarticulate private suffering and public official history are writ large in Shirley. This, it has seemed, is Charlotte Brontë's attempt to write a ‘condition-of-England’ novel such as other of her contemporaries were producing in these years. The novel has always refused quite to fit that category. Its narrative focus shifts from one subject to another — the curates and their absurdities; the dispute between masters and men; Robert Moore's entrepreneurial ambitions; the story of Caroline Helstone's lonely decline; the aristocratic heiress, Shirley, her governess and her tutor; the extraordinary Yorke family and their concerns. There are chunks of text in foreign languages, old ballads, hymns, poems, even a school essay, interspersed with extended reflections upon such themes as the effects of the war with France and the sufferings of old maids.
Julian Davies
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203117
- eISBN:
- 9780191675720
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203117.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the ...
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This analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the documentary evidence. The author examines the roles of Charles I and of Archbishop Laud, demonstrating both Laud's essential conservatism in religious matters and Charles's highly personal notion of sacral kingship, which he was attempting to realize through his prerogative as Supreme Governor of the Church. As a vital arm in the political apparatus of the state and as the vehicle for Caroline ideology, the established church under Charles I became more highly politicized than ever before. This book reassesses the significance of doctrinal Arminianism in the seventeenth-century church, taking issue with a number of scholars and bringing to the forefront of the debate constitutional issues that have recently been underplayed.Less
This analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the documentary evidence. The author examines the roles of Charles I and of Archbishop Laud, demonstrating both Laud's essential conservatism in religious matters and Charles's highly personal notion of sacral kingship, which he was attempting to realize through his prerogative as Supreme Governor of the Church. As a vital arm in the political apparatus of the state and as the vehicle for Caroline ideology, the established church under Charles I became more highly politicized than ever before. This book reassesses the significance of doctrinal Arminianism in the seventeenth-century church, taking issue with a number of scholars and bringing to the forefront of the debate constitutional issues that have recently been underplayed.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699391
- eISBN:
- 9780191739132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699391.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter, which is thematically rather than chronologically based, introduces the third part of the book and depicts Wilberforce in his domestic setting. One of the chief reasons for his hatred ...
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This chapter, which is thematically rather than chronologically based, introduces the third part of the book and depicts Wilberforce in his domestic setting. One of the chief reasons for his hatred of the slave system was the fact that the slaves were denied family life. He attached great importance to the Christian idea of the ‘good death’, and saw heaven in domestic terms as a site of family reunion. His intervention in the cases of Mary Anne Clarke and Queen Caroline show the importance of domestic ideology in his political campaigns. His parliamentary attack on Captain John Kimber and the Hindu practice of sati show his concern for non-European women. In 1822 he received the widow and daughters of Henri Christophe, the former King of Haiti. His meeting with Madame de Staël is described. The chapter ends with a discussion of his relationship with his wife, Barbara Spooner.Less
This chapter, which is thematically rather than chronologically based, introduces the third part of the book and depicts Wilberforce in his domestic setting. One of the chief reasons for his hatred of the slave system was the fact that the slaves were denied family life. He attached great importance to the Christian idea of the ‘good death’, and saw heaven in domestic terms as a site of family reunion. His intervention in the cases of Mary Anne Clarke and Queen Caroline show the importance of domestic ideology in his political campaigns. His parliamentary attack on Captain John Kimber and the Hindu practice of sati show his concern for non-European women. In 1822 he received the widow and daughters of Henri Christophe, the former King of Haiti. His meeting with Madame de Staël is described. The chapter ends with a discussion of his relationship with his wife, Barbara Spooner.
