Anthony James Leggett
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198526438
- eISBN:
- 9780191711954
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198526438.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Condensed Matter Physics / Materials
Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are ...
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Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way. Their consequences in condensed matter systems are also explored. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the book uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity. The physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, “classical” superconductors, superfluid 3-He, “exotic” superconductors, and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases.Less
Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way. Their consequences in condensed matter systems are also explored. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the book uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity. The physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, “classical” superconductors, superfluid 3-He, “exotic” superconductors, and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases.
Timothy Larsen
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199287871
- eISBN:
- 9780191713422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287871.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Thomas Cooper was a Methodist preacher as a young man. His radical politics as a Chartist led to a time of prison. He became a leading, popular, freethinking lecturer who was particularly influenced ...
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Thomas Cooper was a Methodist preacher as a young man. His radical politics as a Chartist led to a time of prison. He became a leading, popular, freethinking lecturer who was particularly influenced by D. F. Strauss’s Leben Jesu/Life of Jesus. As a reconvert, he lectured and wrote in the field of Christian apologetics.Less
Thomas Cooper was a Methodist preacher as a young man. His radical politics as a Chartist led to a time of prison. He became a leading, popular, freethinking lecturer who was particularly influenced by D. F. Strauss’s Leben Jesu/Life of Jesus. As a reconvert, he lectured and wrote in the field of Christian apologetics.
Geoffrey Sanborn
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199751693
- eISBN:
- 9780199894819
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751693.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, World Literature
This book combines history, biography, and close reading to produce radically new interpretations of two of the most important novels in American history. After an introductory chapter ...
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This book combines history, biography, and close reading to produce radically new interpretations of two of the most important novels in American history. After an introductory chapter on the early nineteenth-century image of the Maori, the book demonstrates, in a series of interlinked chapters, that Magua in The Last of the Mohicans and Queequeg in Moby-Dick were modeled on Maori chiefs. In a sharp reversal of the conventional understanding of Magua, the book argues that Cooper means us to see him not as a villainous “bad Indian” but as a fiercely majestic and intelligent “gentleman.” Like the massacre led by Te Ara, the Maori chief on whom Magua was based, the massacre led by Magua is represented as an example of why aristocrats, white or non-white, should be exempted from humiliatingly vulgar punishments. In the chapter on Moby-Dick, the book argues that the story of Te Pehi Kupe, a Maori chief who boarded a ship and became intimate with its captain, inspired Melville to turn Queequeg, originally a prop in a comic, democratic, humanist anecdote, into an icon of epic republican idealism. Breaking with the usual conception of Queequeg as an embodiment of loving companionship, the book shows that what he stands for above all else is “mortal greatness”—a loftiness that is at least latent in every one of us—and the buoyancy of spirit that sustains it.Less
This book combines history, biography, and close reading to produce radically new interpretations of two of the most important novels in American history. After an introductory chapter on the early nineteenth-century image of the Maori, the book demonstrates, in a series of interlinked chapters, that Magua in The Last of the Mohicans and Queequeg in Moby-Dick were modeled on Maori chiefs. In a sharp reversal of the conventional understanding of Magua, the book argues that Cooper means us to see him not as a villainous “bad Indian” but as a fiercely majestic and intelligent “gentleman.” Like the massacre led by Te Ara, the Maori chief on whom Magua was based, the massacre led by Magua is represented as an example of why aristocrats, white or non-white, should be exempted from humiliatingly vulgar punishments. In the chapter on Moby-Dick, the book argues that the story of Te Pehi Kupe, a Maori chief who boarded a ship and became intimate with its captain, inspired Melville to turn Queequeg, originally a prop in a comic, democratic, humanist anecdote, into an icon of epic republican idealism. Breaking with the usual conception of Queequeg as an embodiment of loving companionship, the book shows that what he stands for above all else is “mortal greatness”—a loftiness that is at least latent in every one of us—and the buoyancy of spirit that sustains it.
Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202530
- eISBN:
- 9780191675386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202530.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter presents a case study on forced marriage by the parish in England, focusing on the case Churchwardens of Hingham v. Churchwardens of Snettisham which was filed in 1713. This case ...
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This chapter presents a case study on forced marriage by the parish in England, focusing on the case Churchwardens of Hingham v. Churchwardens of Snettisham which was filed in 1713. This case involved mentally retarded Margaret Cooper and an idle fellow Edward Buck, who were supported financially by the Snettisham and the Hingham parishes, respectively. The churchwardens of Hingham claimed that Edward was forced to marry Margaret in order to transfer to them the financial responsibility for the couple.Less
This chapter presents a case study on forced marriage by the parish in England, focusing on the case Churchwardens of Hingham v. Churchwardens of Snettisham which was filed in 1713. This case involved mentally retarded Margaret Cooper and an idle fellow Edward Buck, who were supported financially by the Snettisham and the Hingham parishes, respectively. The churchwardens of Hingham claimed that Edward was forced to marry Margaret in order to transfer to them the financial responsibility for the couple.
Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Nandini Trivedi, and James M. Valles, Jr. (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199592593
- eISBN:
- 9780191741050
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592593.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in one phase to a completely different set of excitations in another. ...
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Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in one phase to a completely different set of excitations in another. The book chapters give insights into how a coherent metallic or superconducting state can be driven into an incoherent insulating state by increasing disorder, magnetic field, carrier concentration and inter-electron interactions. They illustrate the primary methods employed to develop a multi-faceted theory of many interacting particle systems. They describe how recent experiments probing the microscopic structure, transport, charge and spin dynamics have yielded guiding insights. What sets this book apart is this strong dialog between experiment and theory, which reveals the recent progress and emergent opportunities to solve some major problems in many body physics. The pedagogical style of the chapters has been set for graduate students starting in this dynamic field.Less
Quantum phase transitions describe the violent rearrangement of electrons or atoms as they evolve from well defined excitations in one phase to a completely different set of excitations in another. The book chapters give insights into how a coherent metallic or superconducting state can be driven into an incoherent insulating state by increasing disorder, magnetic field, carrier concentration and inter-electron interactions. They illustrate the primary methods employed to develop a multi-faceted theory of many interacting particle systems. They describe how recent experiments probing the microscopic structure, transport, charge and spin dynamics have yielded guiding insights. What sets this book apart is this strong dialog between experiment and theory, which reveals the recent progress and emergent opportunities to solve some major problems in many body physics. The pedagogical style of the chapters has been set for graduate students starting in this dynamic field.
Peter Hinds
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264430
- eISBN:
- 9780191733994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264430.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the ...
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This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the pamphlet discourse that circulated before and after it met, and considers the powerful strategy of invoking historical precedents in polemical debate. Finally, it looks at some representations of Antony Ashley Cooper, who was the Earl of Shaftesbury.Less
This chapter discusses and addresses two main concerns. It starts by examining the controversy that surrounded the moving of Parliament from Westminster to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the pamphlet discourse that circulated before and after it met, and considers the powerful strategy of invoking historical precedents in polemical debate. Finally, it looks at some representations of Antony Ashley Cooper, who was the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Michael L. Frazer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195390667
- eISBN:
- 9780199866687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390667.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis ...
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This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis Hutcheson, Bishop Joseph Butler, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Although all three made important contributions to the argument that justice and virtue cannot be products of reason alone, this chapter considers these authors primarily insofar as they presented the problems which Hume, Smith, and Herder were left to work out in their own writings. The first of these challenges was the need for a free-standing sentimentalist ethics—that is, one which does not rely on religion or metaphysics to establish the normative authority of our moral sentiments. The second challenge is to explain how our moral sentiments can lead us to a sense of justice capable of being instantiated in law-governed political institutions.Less
This chapter consists of an overview of the work of the three British philosophers from the first half of the eighteenth century whose work most influenced the later sentimentalists: Francis Hutcheson, Bishop Joseph Butler, and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Although all three made important contributions to the argument that justice and virtue cannot be products of reason alone, this chapter considers these authors primarily insofar as they presented the problems which Hume, Smith, and Herder were left to work out in their own writings. The first of these challenges was the need for a free-standing sentimentalist ethics—that is, one which does not rely on religion or metaphysics to establish the normative authority of our moral sentiments. The second challenge is to explain how our moral sentiments can lead us to a sense of justice capable of being instantiated in law-governed political institutions.
David Womersley
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199255641
- eISBN:
- 9780191719615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255641.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter examines the continuation to Thomas Cooper's Chronicle which was written by the Marian exile Robert Crowley. The two men exemplify very different kinds of Protestant churchmanship: ...
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This chapter examines the continuation to Thomas Cooper's Chronicle which was written by the Marian exile Robert Crowley. The two men exemplify very different kinds of Protestant churchmanship: Cooper was a wealthy bishop, Crowley a turbulent evangelical. Their different religious temperaments and commitments are evident in their historical writing, and the composite text they created together thus shows how even within the fold of reformed religion, historical writing might be a forum for struggle and reveal confessional tensions.Less
This chapter examines the continuation to Thomas Cooper's Chronicle which was written by the Marian exile Robert Crowley. The two men exemplify very different kinds of Protestant churchmanship: Cooper was a wealthy bishop, Crowley a turbulent evangelical. Their different religious temperaments and commitments are evident in their historical writing, and the composite text they created together thus shows how even within the fold of reformed religion, historical writing might be a forum for struggle and reveal confessional tensions.
John Wigger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195387803
- eISBN:
- 9780199866410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387803.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
While Methodism grew vigorously in New York, its growth was slower in New England, in part because Methodists refused to seek government support. Asbury frequently had strep throat, which can damage ...
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While Methodism grew vigorously in New York, its growth was slower in New England, in part because Methodists refused to seek government support. Asbury frequently had strep throat, which can damage the heart valves and lead to congestive heart failure. At the New England conference in 1793 Asbury managed to replace Jesse Lee as presiding elder with Ezekiel Cooper, despite stubborn resistance from Lee. Asbury escaped yellow fever in Philadelphia, but arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in December desperately ill nonetheless. Since he could not travel, he delegated authority to presiding elders, including John Kobler and Francis Poythress in Kentucky and Tennessee. As he traveled less, Asbury returned to more basic pastoral duties. Such responsibilities often exhausted young preachers, who frequently left the ministry for marriage, as was nearly the case with Ezekiel Cooper.Less
While Methodism grew vigorously in New York, its growth was slower in New England, in part because Methodists refused to seek government support. Asbury frequently had strep throat, which can damage the heart valves and lead to congestive heart failure. At the New England conference in 1793 Asbury managed to replace Jesse Lee as presiding elder with Ezekiel Cooper, despite stubborn resistance from Lee. Asbury escaped yellow fever in Philadelphia, but arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in December desperately ill nonetheless. Since he could not travel, he delegated authority to presiding elders, including John Kobler and Francis Poythress in Kentucky and Tennessee. As he traveled less, Asbury returned to more basic pastoral duties. Such responsibilities often exhausted young preachers, who frequently left the ministry for marriage, as was nearly the case with Ezekiel Cooper.
John Wigger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195387803
- eISBN:
- 9780199866410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387803.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Asbury fell seriously ill again in 1797 but continued to travel anyway, riding from Charleston to New York City over the spring and summer. Asbury's experience with prolonged illnesses was not ...
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Asbury fell seriously ill again in 1797 but continued to travel anyway, riding from Charleston to New York City over the spring and summer. Asbury's experience with prolonged illnesses was not unusual for the period. A case in point is the preacher William Ormond, who suffered a number of illnesses and tried a range of cures 1791-1801. In June 1798 Asbury learned that his father had died. Asbury never says much about his father, who evidently had some failing that made him vaguely embarrassing. As his health remained fragile, Asbury continued to depend on Methodist women for support. When John Dickins died of yellow fever in 1798, Asbury replaced him as head of the church's book concern with Ezekiel Cooper. Cooper didn't want the job because of the concern's debts, but he proved a successful manager and editor. Given his poor health, Asbury made plans during 1799 to resign from the episcopacy.Less
Asbury fell seriously ill again in 1797 but continued to travel anyway, riding from Charleston to New York City over the spring and summer. Asbury's experience with prolonged illnesses was not unusual for the period. A case in point is the preacher William Ormond, who suffered a number of illnesses and tried a range of cures 1791-1801. In June 1798 Asbury learned that his father had died. Asbury never says much about his father, who evidently had some failing that made him vaguely embarrassing. As his health remained fragile, Asbury continued to depend on Methodist women for support. When John Dickins died of yellow fever in 1798, Asbury replaced him as head of the church's book concern with Ezekiel Cooper. Cooper didn't want the job because of the concern's debts, but he proved a successful manager and editor. Given his poor health, Asbury made plans during 1799 to resign from the episcopacy.
Herbert F. Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199232987
- eISBN:
- 9780191716447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232987.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In its 1820–40 efflorescence, the poetic closet drama staked out a space that renewed epic also made its own during the heyday of British national Reform. Literalizing poetic ‘argument’ into debate, ...
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In its 1820–40 efflorescence, the poetic closet drama staked out a space that renewed epic also made its own during the heyday of British national Reform. Literalizing poetic ‘argument’ into debate, and expanding the classical topos of the epic consult, epoists of the 1830s wrote poems whose narrative took the form of an extended, dialogical deliberation. These works addressed their readers as an auditory convened to assist at a process of judgment affirming national unity on a basis liberal rather than authoritarian — or else, in an epic undersong like the Chartist Cooper's, they appealed to liberal principles on behalf of those whom the 1832 compact had left out. As rising Victorian stars like Carlyle and Disraeli worked this forensic vein, Browning took it to extremes that all but wrecked his career. Even Bible epoists (Heraud, Bulmer) now discarded the 1820s mass rush to Judgment, in favour of persuasive rhetoric; and epics of church history that overlaid Protestant Reformation on contemporary Reform supervened upon the dogmatizing of former decades.Less
In its 1820–40 efflorescence, the poetic closet drama staked out a space that renewed epic also made its own during the heyday of British national Reform. Literalizing poetic ‘argument’ into debate, and expanding the classical topos of the epic consult, epoists of the 1830s wrote poems whose narrative took the form of an extended, dialogical deliberation. These works addressed their readers as an auditory convened to assist at a process of judgment affirming national unity on a basis liberal rather than authoritarian — or else, in an epic undersong like the Chartist Cooper's, they appealed to liberal principles on behalf of those whom the 1832 compact had left out. As rising Victorian stars like Carlyle and Disraeli worked this forensic vein, Browning took it to extremes that all but wrecked his career. Even Bible epoists (Heraud, Bulmer) now discarded the 1820s mass rush to Judgment, in favour of persuasive rhetoric; and epics of church history that overlaid Protestant Reformation on contemporary Reform supervened upon the dogmatizing of former decades.
John Gatta
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195165050
- eISBN:
- 9780199835140
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195165055.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
By the early nineteenth century, in writings by Bryant, Cooper, and Emerson, one can observe a growing Romantic tendency to imagine Nature in religious terms--as a favored site of worship and a ...
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By the early nineteenth century, in writings by Bryant, Cooper, and Emerson, one can observe a growing Romantic tendency to imagine Nature in religious terms--as a favored site of worship and a source of revelation largely superseding the Christian scriptures. Both literary artists and Hudson River painters highlighted their impressions of the sacred sublime in American landscapes. And as civilized settlements continued to replace the older freedom of life on the frontier, James Fenimore Cooper dramatized the problematic ethical consequences of this change in his Leatherstocking novels, above all in The Pioneers. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s vision of the nonhuman world as divine “cosmos,” or “beauty” is most memorably presented in his book Nature (1836), which celebrates the intersection between Nature and Civilization he discovered on the “common” space of a village green in Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson’s poem “The Adirondacs,” which describes a camping excursion interrupted by news of laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable, underscores the point that no part of nature could henceforth be wholly removed from human presence or influence.Less
By the early nineteenth century, in writings by Bryant, Cooper, and Emerson, one can observe a growing Romantic tendency to imagine Nature in religious terms--as a favored site of worship and a source of revelation largely superseding the Christian scriptures. Both literary artists and Hudson River painters highlighted their impressions of the sacred sublime in American landscapes. And as civilized settlements continued to replace the older freedom of life on the frontier, James Fenimore Cooper dramatized the problematic ethical consequences of this change in his Leatherstocking novels, above all in The Pioneers. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s vision of the nonhuman world as divine “cosmos,” or “beauty” is most memorably presented in his book Nature (1836), which celebrates the intersection between Nature and Civilization he discovered on the “common” space of a village green in Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson’s poem “The Adirondacs,” which describes a camping excursion interrupted by news of laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable, underscores the point that no part of nature could henceforth be wholly removed from human presence or influence.
Christine Rosen
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195156799
- eISBN:
- 9780199835218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019515679X.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Although engaged in questioning the precepts of the eugenics movement from its inception, Catholic leaders’ interest in the movement reached its apogee in the late 1920s, when the twin issues of ...
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Although engaged in questioning the precepts of the eugenics movement from its inception, Catholic leaders’ interest in the movement reached its apogee in the late 1920s, when the twin issues of compulsory sterilization and birth control came to dominate the debate over eugenics. Through an examination of the work of Rev. John A. Ryan and Rev. John M. Cooper, two Catholic leaders who were once members of the American Eugenics Society, this chapter describes the intellectual journey of the Catholics who eventually became the eugenics movement’s most fervent opponents. It reviews Catholic debate about eugenic sterilization, the reaction to Margaret Sanger’s fledgling birth control movement, and the lay and clerical reaction to Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubi.Less
Although engaged in questioning the precepts of the eugenics movement from its inception, Catholic leaders’ interest in the movement reached its apogee in the late 1920s, when the twin issues of compulsory sterilization and birth control came to dominate the debate over eugenics. Through an examination of the work of Rev. John A. Ryan and Rev. John M. Cooper, two Catholic leaders who were once members of the American Eugenics Society, this chapter describes the intellectual journey of the Catholics who eventually became the eugenics movement’s most fervent opponents. It reviews Catholic debate about eugenic sterilization, the reaction to Margaret Sanger’s fledgling birth control movement, and the lay and clerical reaction to Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubi.
Margot Minardi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195379372
- eISBN:
- 9780199869152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379372.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines how black Bay Staters in the 1850s strove to claim “manhood” and “citizenship” by representing themselves and their ancestors as agents in history. This endeavor was especially ...
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This chapter examines how black Bay Staters in the 1850s strove to claim “manhood” and “citizenship” by representing themselves and their ancestors as agents in history. This endeavor was especially pressing after 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Act made African Americans vulnerable to slave catchers, even on the professedly free ground of the North. In this context, Crispus Attucks, who had largely been forgotten in early national commemorations of the Revolutionary War, assumed his place as black America's finest example of patriotism and heroism. The leading figure in the effort to recover the agency of Attucks and other black patriots was William Cooper Nell, an abolitionist, integrationist, and historian who published The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution in 1855. This chapter interprets the revival of interest in black Revolutionary heroism in the context of the struggle for African American civil rights in Massachusetts, with particular attention to the effort to allow black men to serve in the militia.Less
This chapter examines how black Bay Staters in the 1850s strove to claim “manhood” and “citizenship” by representing themselves and their ancestors as agents in history. This endeavor was especially pressing after 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Act made African Americans vulnerable to slave catchers, even on the professedly free ground of the North. In this context, Crispus Attucks, who had largely been forgotten in early national commemorations of the Revolutionary War, assumed his place as black America's finest example of patriotism and heroism. The leading figure in the effort to recover the agency of Attucks and other black patriots was William Cooper Nell, an abolitionist, integrationist, and historian who published The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution in 1855. This chapter interprets the revival of interest in black Revolutionary heroism in the context of the struggle for African American civil rights in Massachusetts, with particular attention to the effort to allow black men to serve in the militia.
Margot Minardi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195379372
- eISBN:
- 9780199869152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379372.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for ...
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The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for black citizenship was — and was not — fulfilled in the formation of the Fifty‐fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1863. Drawing on the famous monument to the Fifty‐fourth and other post‐Civil War memorials in Boston, the epilogue assesses the ongoing significance of commemorative spaces and activities in Massachusetts.Less
The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for black citizenship was — and was not — fulfilled in the formation of the Fifty‐fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1863. Drawing on the famous monument to the Fifty‐fourth and other post‐Civil War memorials in Boston, the epilogue assesses the ongoing significance of commemorative spaces and activities in Massachusetts.
Udo Thiel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199227044
- eISBN:
- 9780191739309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227044.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
For materialists the issue of the afterlife relates entirely to the resurrection of the body. But as Joseph Priestley noted, after death ‘the body putrefies, and the parts that composed it are ...
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For materialists the issue of the afterlife relates entirely to the resurrection of the body. But as Joseph Priestley noted, after death ‘the body putrefies, and the parts that composed it are dispersed’, so where ‘can be the propriety of rewards and punishments, if the man that rises again be not identically the same with the man that acted and died?’ Materialists in attempting to respond to this question take into account a variety of previous accounts of the resurrection and of bodily identity (e.g. Locke, Bonnet, Watts). The chapter explores a development of materialist thought on this issue from William Coward, Joseph Priestley to his follower Thomas Cooper. In the end, the development of materialist thought in Britain results in a denial of numerical bodily identity at the resurrection, combined with the claim that such identity is not even required for a plausible account of the afterlife.Less
For materialists the issue of the afterlife relates entirely to the resurrection of the body. But as Joseph Priestley noted, after death ‘the body putrefies, and the parts that composed it are dispersed’, so where ‘can be the propriety of rewards and punishments, if the man that rises again be not identically the same with the man that acted and died?’ Materialists in attempting to respond to this question take into account a variety of previous accounts of the resurrection and of bodily identity (e.g. Locke, Bonnet, Watts). The chapter explores a development of materialist thought on this issue from William Coward, Joseph Priestley to his follower Thomas Cooper. In the end, the development of materialist thought in Britain results in a denial of numerical bodily identity at the resurrection, combined with the claim that such identity is not even required for a plausible account of the afterlife.
Bob Gluck
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226180762
- eISBN:
- 9780226303390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226303390.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
When Chicago-born violinist Leroy Jenkins returned from a sojourn in Paris, he moved to New York. There, Jenkins formed a cooperative trio with bassist Sirone (Norris Jones) and drummer Jerome ...
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When Chicago-born violinist Leroy Jenkins returned from a sojourn in Paris, he moved to New York. There, Jenkins formed a cooperative trio with bassist Sirone (Norris Jones) and drummer Jerome Cooper. In this leaderless band, individual and group configurations were malleable constructs, negotiated in the moment. Living in downtown New York, the Revolutionary Ensemble was part of an emerging musical culture known for its creativity but inability to gain commercial traction. Instead, informal venues arose in lofts such as Sam and Bea Rivers’ Studio Rivbea. The band rehearsed constantly but rarely performed in public during its early years. Still, the band developed a committed group of followers of their concerts, some of which were documented on recordings. A short-lived record contract with A&M Records, on its Horizon Jazz Series helped the trio gain recognition In the mid-1970s, when they began to play festivals. Disbanding in 1977, the band reunited in the early 2000s to revisit their “devil take care” approach to making music for the sheer joy of making music.Less
When Chicago-born violinist Leroy Jenkins returned from a sojourn in Paris, he moved to New York. There, Jenkins formed a cooperative trio with bassist Sirone (Norris Jones) and drummer Jerome Cooper. In this leaderless band, individual and group configurations were malleable constructs, negotiated in the moment. Living in downtown New York, the Revolutionary Ensemble was part of an emerging musical culture known for its creativity but inability to gain commercial traction. Instead, informal venues arose in lofts such as Sam and Bea Rivers’ Studio Rivbea. The band rehearsed constantly but rarely performed in public during its early years. Still, the band developed a committed group of followers of their concerts, some of which were documented on recordings. A short-lived record contract with A&M Records, on its Horizon Jazz Series helped the trio gain recognition In the mid-1970s, when they began to play festivals. Disbanding in 1977, the band reunited in the early 2000s to revisit their “devil take care” approach to making music for the sheer joy of making music.
Bob Gluck
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226180762
- eISBN:
- 9780226303390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226303390.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
A panoply of musical ideas connect Miles Davis’s “Lost” Quintet, Circle, and the Revolutionary Ensemble. Linking these three bands as “children” of Ornette Coleman goes against the oft-told story of ...
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A panoply of musical ideas connect Miles Davis’s “Lost” Quintet, Circle, and the Revolutionary Ensemble. Linking these three bands as “children” of Ornette Coleman goes against the oft-told story of Bitches Brew being a weigh station en route to funk. In fact, all his 1970s bands balanced vamps with abstraction. Motivic development, texture and color, and intuitive group interaction represented the legacy of Ornette Coleman’s innovations, shared with Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. Comparisons between the “Lost” and other open improvisational groups become more complex in the context of the music business. The Miles Davis name was highly marketable irrespective of the particular music his bands played. Neither Circle nor the Revolutionary Ensemble had access to major label record contracts, a steady stream of releases, or well-staffed concert tours, coupled with a promotional budget that only a major corporation could bring to bear. It is a wonder that Miles Davis was able to successfully navigate the nexus between multiple musical works, but equally significant that creative groups further off the grid could sustain their work in light of the two-tiered musical economy.Less
A panoply of musical ideas connect Miles Davis’s “Lost” Quintet, Circle, and the Revolutionary Ensemble. Linking these three bands as “children” of Ornette Coleman goes against the oft-told story of Bitches Brew being a weigh station en route to funk. In fact, all his 1970s bands balanced vamps with abstraction. Motivic development, texture and color, and intuitive group interaction represented the legacy of Ornette Coleman’s innovations, shared with Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. Comparisons between the “Lost” and other open improvisational groups become more complex in the context of the music business. The Miles Davis name was highly marketable irrespective of the particular music his bands played. Neither Circle nor the Revolutionary Ensemble had access to major label record contracts, a steady stream of releases, or well-staffed concert tours, coupled with a promotional budget that only a major corporation could bring to bear. It is a wonder that Miles Davis was able to successfully navigate the nexus between multiple musical works, but equally significant that creative groups further off the grid could sustain their work in light of the two-tiered musical economy.
Michael T. Gilmore
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195157765
- eISBN:
- 9780199787784
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195157765.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter looks at popular forms closely identified with American culture. It reinterprets the Western, the detective story, and the celebrity novel, and finds that each genre is built on a ...
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This chapter looks at popular forms closely identified with American culture. It reinterprets the Western, the detective story, and the celebrity novel, and finds that each genre is built on a grammar of visibility. Each moves toward an outcome in which everything is known. The authors discussed include Poe, Cooper, and Fanny Fern.Less
This chapter looks at popular forms closely identified with American culture. It reinterprets the Western, the detective story, and the celebrity novel, and finds that each genre is built on a grammar of visibility. Each moves toward an outcome in which everything is known. The authors discussed include Poe, Cooper, and Fanny Fern.
Miles Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198207290
- eISBN:
- 9780191717277
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207290.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In January 1846, Ernest Jones began the move which led him from the fringes of the London literary scene and the bar to centre-stage in the Chartist movement. Chartist poetry of the 1840s represented ...
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In January 1846, Ernest Jones began the move which led him from the fringes of the London literary scene and the bar to centre-stage in the Chartist movement. Chartist poetry of the 1840s represented a popular appropriation of romanticism in England, and specifically of the work of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. Of all the Chartist poets who did most to popularise Byron and Shelley, and who also imitated much of their style, the most prominent was Thomas Cooper, the undisputed ‘poet laureate’ of Chartism. However, Jones’s ascent within the Chartist movement led to Cooper’s expulsion. Jones’s impact as a Chartist poet was more than simply fortuitous; there was also something captivating about his poetry. Jones’s poems presented a somewhat particular version of the class struggle. His early Chartist poetry and oratory were distinctive for their evangelical tenor and Gothic, melodramatic sense of history, rather than their appeal to class solidarity.Less
In January 1846, Ernest Jones began the move which led him from the fringes of the London literary scene and the bar to centre-stage in the Chartist movement. Chartist poetry of the 1840s represented a popular appropriation of romanticism in England, and specifically of the work of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. Of all the Chartist poets who did most to popularise Byron and Shelley, and who also imitated much of their style, the most prominent was Thomas Cooper, the undisputed ‘poet laureate’ of Chartism. However, Jones’s ascent within the Chartist movement led to Cooper’s expulsion. Jones’s impact as a Chartist poet was more than simply fortuitous; there was also something captivating about his poetry. Jones’s poems presented a somewhat particular version of the class struggle. His early Chartist poetry and oratory were distinctive for their evangelical tenor and Gothic, melodramatic sense of history, rather than their appeal to class solidarity.
