Stephen Rippon
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199203826
- eISBN:
- 9780191708282
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203826.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter examines the area to the south‐west of the Blackdown and Quantock Hills—‐in Devon and Cornwall—‐which are shown to have marked a major boundary in landscape character since at least the ...
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This chapter examines the area to the south‐west of the Blackdown and Quantock Hills—‐in Devon and Cornwall—‐which are shown to have marked a major boundary in landscape character since at least the Roman period. Whilst this may in part account for the very different way that the landscape developed in the medieval period, this region should not be seen as backward or remote: around the eighth century it saw a significant intensification in how the landscape was exploited that mirrors developments elsewhere across southern England.Less
This chapter examines the area to the south‐west of the Blackdown and Quantock Hills—‐in Devon and Cornwall—‐which are shown to have marked a major boundary in landscape character since at least the Roman period. Whilst this may in part account for the very different way that the landscape developed in the medieval period, this region should not be seen as backward or remote: around the eighth century it saw a significant intensification in how the landscape was exploited that mirrors developments elsewhere across southern England.
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/9780199582532.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The chapter continues the argument of the eighth by arguing that poems as well as novels in the period became magazine‐like, the key example being Don Juan. The serio‐comic tone that Don Juan shares ...
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The chapter continues the argument of the eighth by arguing that poems as well as novels in the period became magazine‐like, the key example being Don Juan. The serio‐comic tone that Don Juan shares with the magazines has claims, the chapter argues, to be recognized as the dominant literary mode of the period.Less
The chapter continues the argument of the eighth by arguing that poems as well as novels in the period became magazine‐like, the key example being Don Juan. The serio‐comic tone that Don Juan shares with the magazines has claims, the chapter argues, to be recognized as the dominant literary mode of the period.
Pierre Chaplais
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204497
- eISBN:
- 9780191676314
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204497.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This is a highly original reappraisal of the role of Piers Gaveston in English history and of his personal relationship with Edward II. It challenges the accepted view that Gaveston had a homosexual ...
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This is a highly original reappraisal of the role of Piers Gaveston in English history and of his personal relationship with Edward II. It challenges the accepted view that Gaveston had a homosexual affair with Edward, and reassesses the main events of Gaveston's career, including his exiles from England and the scandal over the alleged theft of royal jewels. This book draws its evidence from documentary and narrative sources including unpublished record evidence. The conclusions are fascinating and often surprising. The unusual features of the famous royal charter of 6 August 1307, which granted the earldom of Cornwall to Gaveston, are discussed at length for the first time. Special attention is also paid to the King's personal intervention in the drafting and sealing of documents relating to Gaveston, and to the history of the great seal of absence used while Edward was in France in 1308.Less
This is a highly original reappraisal of the role of Piers Gaveston in English history and of his personal relationship with Edward II. It challenges the accepted view that Gaveston had a homosexual affair with Edward, and reassesses the main events of Gaveston's career, including his exiles from England and the scandal over the alleged theft of royal jewels. This book draws its evidence from documentary and narrative sources including unpublished record evidence. The conclusions are fascinating and often surprising. The unusual features of the famous royal charter of 6 August 1307, which granted the earldom of Cornwall to Gaveston, are discussed at length for the first time. Special attention is also paid to the King's personal intervention in the drafting and sealing of documents relating to Gaveston, and to the history of the great seal of absence used while Edward was in France in 1308.
Debbie Palmer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719090875
- eISBN:
- 9781781707043
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090875.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the ...
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This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses’ health changed over time and between places and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. High rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days of sick in 2011 than private sector employees and most other groups of public sector workers. This book argues that the roots of today’s problems are embedded in the ways nurses were managed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It documents the nature of nurses’ health problems, the ways in which these problems were perceived and how government, nurse organisations, trade unions and hospitals responded. It offers insights not only into the history of women’s work but also the history of disease and the ways changing scientific knowledge shaped the management of nurses’ health. Its inclusion of male nurses and asylum nursing alongside female voluntary hospital nurses sheds new light on the key themes to preoccupy nurse historians today, particularly social class, gender and the issue of professionalisation.Less
This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses’ health changed over time and between places and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. High rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days of sick in 2011 than private sector employees and most other groups of public sector workers. This book argues that the roots of today’s problems are embedded in the ways nurses were managed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It documents the nature of nurses’ health problems, the ways in which these problems were perceived and how government, nurse organisations, trade unions and hospitals responded. It offers insights not only into the history of women’s work but also the history of disease and the ways changing scientific knowledge shaped the management of nurses’ health. Its inclusion of male nurses and asylum nursing alongside female voluntary hospital nurses sheds new light on the key themes to preoccupy nurse historians today, particularly social class, gender and the issue of professionalisation.
H. J. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300174793
- eISBN:
- 9780300213300
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300174793.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. ...
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Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or … might there be other reasons that account for an author's literary fate? This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. The author wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period—some famous, some forgotten. Why are we still reading Jane Austen but not Mary Brunton, when readers in their own day sometimes couldn't tell their works apart? Why Keats and not Barry Cornwall, who came from the same circle of writers and had the same mentor? Why not that mentor, Leigh Hunt, himself? The author offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain's most revered authors and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals. What she discovers about trends, champions, institutional power, and writers' conscious efforts to position themselves for posterity casts fresh light on the actual processes that lead to literary fame.Less
Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or … might there be other reasons that account for an author's literary fate? This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. The author wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period—some famous, some forgotten. Why are we still reading Jane Austen but not Mary Brunton, when readers in their own day sometimes couldn't tell their works apart? Why Keats and not Barry Cornwall, who came from the same circle of writers and had the same mentor? Why not that mentor, Leigh Hunt, himself? The author offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain's most revered authors and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals. What she discovers about trends, champions, institutional power, and writers' conscious efforts to position themselves for posterity casts fresh light on the actual processes that lead to literary fame.
Pierre Chaplais
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204497
- eISBN:
- 9780191676314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204497.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter describes the accession of Edward Carnarvon and the events that took place after the death of Edward I. Piers Gaveston's return from exile was the first action taken by the new king. It ...
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This chapter describes the accession of Edward Carnarvon and the events that took place after the death of Edward I. Piers Gaveston's return from exile was the first action taken by the new king. It describes Gaveston's return from Ponthieu, the grant of earldom of Cornwall to Gaveston, the charter of 6 August 1307, Gaveston as regent, and the king's coronation. Besides carrying the crown, Gaveston performed two other functions at the coronation ceremony: he redeemed post oblacionem Regis at the Curtana sword, which had been carried in the procession by the earl of Lancaster; he also fastened the spur on the king's left foot. It was presumably in his capacity as the king's adoptive brother and according to the king's wishes that Gaveston carried the crown and walked just in front of him.Less
This chapter describes the accession of Edward Carnarvon and the events that took place after the death of Edward I. Piers Gaveston's return from exile was the first action taken by the new king. It describes Gaveston's return from Ponthieu, the grant of earldom of Cornwall to Gaveston, the charter of 6 August 1307, Gaveston as regent, and the king's coronation. Besides carrying the crown, Gaveston performed two other functions at the coronation ceremony: he redeemed post oblacionem Regis at the Curtana sword, which had been carried in the procession by the earl of Lancaster; he also fastened the spur on the king's left foot. It was presumably in his capacity as the king's adoptive brother and according to the king's wishes that Gaveston carried the crown and walked just in front of him.
Pierre Chaplais
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204497
- eISBN:
- 9780191676314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204497.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
No record evidence has been found that can be said to prove conclusively that, in the early days of his relationship with Piers Gaveston, Edward of Carnarvon contracted with him a compact of adoptive ...
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No record evidence has been found that can be said to prove conclusively that, in the early days of his relationship with Piers Gaveston, Edward of Carnarvon contracted with him a compact of adoptive brotherhood, be it brotherhood-in-arms or some kind of fraternity. The existence of such a bond however is supported by a great deal of circumstantial evidence, besides being a more plausible explanation for the preferential treatment that Gaveston received from Edward as king, than the gratious assumption that they were lovers. The grant to Gaveston of the earldom of Cornwall, his appointment as keeper of the realm, as royal lieutenant in Ireland, and as royal chamberlain, all these favours were consistent with adoptive brotherhood.Less
No record evidence has been found that can be said to prove conclusively that, in the early days of his relationship with Piers Gaveston, Edward of Carnarvon contracted with him a compact of adoptive brotherhood, be it brotherhood-in-arms or some kind of fraternity. The existence of such a bond however is supported by a great deal of circumstantial evidence, besides being a more plausible explanation for the preferential treatment that Gaveston received from Edward as king, than the gratious assumption that they were lovers. The grant to Gaveston of the earldom of Cornwall, his appointment as keeper of the realm, as royal lieutenant in Ireland, and as royal chamberlain, all these favours were consistent with adoptive brotherhood.
Wendy Davies
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201533
- eISBN:
- 9780191674921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201533.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter describes English control in Wales in the tenth century, a period in which the political capacity of English kings increased enormously. Not content with the incorporation of Cornwall ...
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This chapter describes English control in Wales in the tenth century, a period in which the political capacity of English kings increased enormously. Not content with the incorporation of Cornwall into the kingdom, the kings of England mounted expeditions to northern as well as western parts of the island and entered into relationships with the leaders on their frontiers. In this chapter, ‘the border’, English political control in Wales, and English alliances are closely examined.Less
This chapter describes English control in Wales in the tenth century, a period in which the political capacity of English kings increased enormously. Not content with the incorporation of Cornwall into the kingdom, the kings of England mounted expeditions to northern as well as western parts of the island and entered into relationships with the leaders on their frontiers. In this chapter, ‘the border’, English political control in Wales, and English alliances are closely examined.
T. M. Charles-Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198217312
- eISBN:
- 9780191744778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198217312.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter continues the history of the relationship between the Welsh and the Mercians taking its start from the decline of Northumbrian power after the battles of the Trent and Nechtanesmere (679 ...
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This chapter continues the history of the relationship between the Welsh and the Mercians taking its start from the decline of Northumbrian power after the battles of the Trent and Nechtanesmere (679 and 685). This is the period which sees the rise of Mercia to become the dominant power in England south of the Humber. Its relations with Wales are an essential part of this development, as revealed by Offa's Dyke, to which one part of the chapter is devoted; another discusses the Pillar of Eliseg which may be a key to Offa's Dyke; other sections discuss relations between the Cornishmen and the West Saxons and between the Britons of the kingdom of Alclud (Dumbarton) and their Pictish, English, and Gaelic neighbours.Less
This chapter continues the history of the relationship between the Welsh and the Mercians taking its start from the decline of Northumbrian power after the battles of the Trent and Nechtanesmere (679 and 685). This is the period which sees the rise of Mercia to become the dominant power in England south of the Humber. Its relations with Wales are an essential part of this development, as revealed by Offa's Dyke, to which one part of the chapter is devoted; another discusses the Pillar of Eliseg which may be a key to Offa's Dyke; other sections discuss relations between the Cornishmen and the West Saxons and between the Britons of the kingdom of Alclud (Dumbarton) and their Pictish, English, and Gaelic neighbours.
T. M. Charles-Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198217312
- eISBN:
- 9780191744778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198217312.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
Latin learning was mainly sustained in Wales by the firm expectation that a church community should have a teacher as one of its office‐holders. After c. 700 such teachers had to instruct monolingual ...
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Latin learning was mainly sustained in Wales by the firm expectation that a church community should have a teacher as one of its office‐holders. After c. 700 such teachers had to instruct monolingual British‐speakers in Latin, and thus Latin grammars and word‐lists were essential. The performance of the liturgy and knowledge of the Bible and the Fathers depended upon the effectiveness of such teachers. Epigraphic evidence confirms that British Latin had died as a spoken language but also shows that the teaching of Latin provided by the major churches was very uneven. The evidence of the few surviving books written in Wales in the period shows that the scripts used long remained the same as those employed in Ireland and, to a lesser extent, in England. They also show the continuing intellectual links between Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany, and between all these British territories and Ireland.Less
Latin learning was mainly sustained in Wales by the firm expectation that a church community should have a teacher as one of its office‐holders. After c. 700 such teachers had to instruct monolingual British‐speakers in Latin, and thus Latin grammars and word‐lists were essential. The performance of the liturgy and knowledge of the Bible and the Fathers depended upon the effectiveness of such teachers. Epigraphic evidence confirms that British Latin had died as a spoken language but also shows that the teaching of Latin provided by the major churches was very uneven. The evidence of the few surviving books written in Wales in the period shows that the scripts used long remained the same as those employed in Ireland and, to a lesser extent, in England. They also show the continuing intellectual links between Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany, and between all these British territories and Ireland.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312113
- eISBN:
- 9781846315145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846312113.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter discusses the contribution of Bryan Cornwall in the posthumous redemption of John Keats as a poet. It discusses his sentimental poetic tribute An Elegy on the Death of the poet Keats ...
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This chapter discusses the contribution of Bryan Cornwall in the posthumous redemption of John Keats as a poet. It discusses his sentimental poetic tribute An Elegy on the Death of the poet Keats which predates Percy Bysshe Shelley's own elegy on Keats' death, Adonais. It explains that Cornwall described Keats in his elegy as a delicate, neglected, tragic genius. This chapter also highlights the fact that this elegy was with other poems collected about Keats' death which is symptomatic of contemporary neglect of Cornwall.Less
This chapter discusses the contribution of Bryan Cornwall in the posthumous redemption of John Keats as a poet. It discusses his sentimental poetic tribute An Elegy on the Death of the poet Keats which predates Percy Bysshe Shelley's own elegy on Keats' death, Adonais. It explains that Cornwall described Keats in his elegy as a delicate, neglected, tragic genius. This chapter also highlights the fact that this elegy was with other poems collected about Keats' death which is symptomatic of contemporary neglect of Cornwall.
David Bebbington
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199575480
- eISBN:
- 9780191741449
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575480.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
A Wesleyan Methodist revival in Cornwall in 1849 illustrates the extent to which awakenings were spontaneous or planned. It took place in the town of Penzance and the adjacent fishing villages of ...
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A Wesleyan Methodist revival in Cornwall in 1849 illustrates the extent to which awakenings were spontaneous or planned. It took place in the town of Penzance and the adjacent fishing villages of Mousehole and Newlyn. Economic circumstances played no discernible part in the genesis of the episode, but anxieties about death did. Methodist piety prepared the way and the superintendent minister both anticipated revival and managed it when it came. In Penzance the awakening appealed to the young people of respectable families, but in each of the fishing villages the whole community was moved to greater exuberance. There was far more planning in Penzance than in Mousehole and Newlyn.Less
A Wesleyan Methodist revival in Cornwall in 1849 illustrates the extent to which awakenings were spontaneous or planned. It took place in the town of Penzance and the adjacent fishing villages of Mousehole and Newlyn. Economic circumstances played no discernible part in the genesis of the episode, but anxieties about death did. Methodist piety prepared the way and the superintendent minister both anticipated revival and managed it when it came. In Penzance the awakening appealed to the young people of respectable families, but in each of the fishing villages the whole community was moved to greater exuberance. There was far more planning in Penzance than in Mousehole and Newlyn.
Dean MacCannell
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520257825
- eISBN:
- 9780520948655
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257825.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
Landscapes seen as “picturesque” are said to engender feelings of peaceful calm or soothing solace. The role of landscape in the mediation of tourist/other is described. Picturesque landscapes are ...
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Landscapes seen as “picturesque” are said to engender feelings of peaceful calm or soothing solace. The role of landscape in the mediation of tourist/other is described. Picturesque landscapes are disproportionately found in “minor” places, that is, places forgotten or bypassed by big capital. Minor places now serve as “roots service stops” for postmodernites. The potential in the landscape is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for immigrants, nomads, refugees, the uprooted, and, perhaps someday, for tourists. The Cornish landscape art and the historical experience of mortal risk seem to exist as two parallel universes overlaid but closed to each other. Alfred Wallis transformed landscape and the memories it contains into place, a representational strategy Cornwall and its memories strongly resist. The tourist landscape is the teleotype of easily taken-for-granted agreement on everything thought to be “good” in nature and in human thought and action.Less
Landscapes seen as “picturesque” are said to engender feelings of peaceful calm or soothing solace. The role of landscape in the mediation of tourist/other is described. Picturesque landscapes are disproportionately found in “minor” places, that is, places forgotten or bypassed by big capital. Minor places now serve as “roots service stops” for postmodernites. The potential in the landscape is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for immigrants, nomads, refugees, the uprooted, and, perhaps someday, for tourists. The Cornish landscape art and the historical experience of mortal risk seem to exist as two parallel universes overlaid but closed to each other. Alfred Wallis transformed landscape and the memories it contains into place, a representational strategy Cornwall and its memories strongly resist. The tourist landscape is the teleotype of easily taken-for-granted agreement on everything thought to be “good” in nature and in human thought and action.
Sydney Janet Kaplan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641482
- eISBN:
- 9780748671595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641482.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter contains an intertextual reading of Murry's Still Life and Lawrence's Women in Love. It considers the ways that Murry's ambivalent friendship with Lawrence is reflected in Women in Love. ...
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This chapter contains an intertextual reading of Murry's Still Life and Lawrence's Women in Love. It considers the ways that Murry's ambivalent friendship with Lawrence is reflected in Women in Love. Using both the first and final versions of Women in Love, this chapter analyses Lawrence's changing interpretations of the homosocial/homosexual relationship between Gerald Crick and Rupert Birkin and argues that they evoke some of the traumatic incidents that occurred during Murry and Mansfield's visit to the Lawrences in Cornwall in 1916.Less
This chapter contains an intertextual reading of Murry's Still Life and Lawrence's Women in Love. It considers the ways that Murry's ambivalent friendship with Lawrence is reflected in Women in Love. Using both the first and final versions of Women in Love, this chapter analyses Lawrence's changing interpretations of the homosocial/homosexual relationship between Gerald Crick and Rupert Birkin and argues that they evoke some of the traumatic incidents that occurred during Murry and Mansfield's visit to the Lawrences in Cornwall in 1916.
ALLEN JONES and Mark Naison
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231027
- eISBN:
- 9780823240821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231027.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Allen Jones was proud to say that he was going to a private school on a basketball scholarship in the fall at Cornwall Academy. He met Parcells Jones from East Side House on Alexander Avenue, one of ...
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Allen Jones was proud to say that he was going to a private school on a basketball scholarship in the fall at Cornwall Academy. He met Parcells Jones from East Side House on Alexander Avenue, one of the local community centers, who presented him with a check from the Urban League for $1,000. PJ, as people called him, was a good person, and he would continue to be an important figure in his life later, as would a lot of others. So much had happened to him in the short time since he had been released from Rikers Island, and he was grateful for every opportunity he had been given. As the bus left Manhattan, what he saw was a far cry from the tenements and Housing Projects of the Bronx. This was white America, an undiscovered country.Less
Allen Jones was proud to say that he was going to a private school on a basketball scholarship in the fall at Cornwall Academy. He met Parcells Jones from East Side House on Alexander Avenue, one of the local community centers, who presented him with a check from the Urban League for $1,000. PJ, as people called him, was a good person, and he would continue to be an important figure in his life later, as would a lot of others. So much had happened to him in the short time since he had been released from Rikers Island, and he was grateful for every opportunity he had been given. As the bus left Manhattan, what he saw was a far cry from the tenements and Housing Projects of the Bronx. This was white America, an undiscovered country.
ALLEN JONES and Mark Naison
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231027
- eISBN:
- 9780823240821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231027.003.0023
- Subject:
- History, Social History
After a year of living the life of a prep school boy at Cornwall Academy, Allen Jones returned to the Bronx in the summer of 1970. The first thing he needed to do when he got home was deal with his ...
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After a year of living the life of a prep school boy at Cornwall Academy, Allen Jones returned to the Bronx in the summer of 1970. The first thing he needed to do when he got home was deal with his criminal past. Just before the State Supreme Court closed for the summer, he had to appear for sentencing. A year and a half had passed since Jones last stood before the judge. Since then, he had become a different person, and he was determined to look the part. He had his hair cut short, Caesar style, and wore a suit and tie. In one hand, he held the trophy given to him for winning the conference scoring championship, and in the other he held his honor roll grades, along with the letter offering him a scholarship to Montreat Anderson Junior College.Less
After a year of living the life of a prep school boy at Cornwall Academy, Allen Jones returned to the Bronx in the summer of 1970. The first thing he needed to do when he got home was deal with his criminal past. Just before the State Supreme Court closed for the summer, he had to appear for sentencing. A year and a half had passed since Jones last stood before the judge. Since then, he had become a different person, and he was determined to look the part. He had his hair cut short, Caesar style, and wore a suit and tie. In one hand, he held the trophy given to him for winning the conference scoring championship, and in the other he held his honor roll grades, along with the letter offering him a scholarship to Montreat Anderson Junior College.
Nick Freeman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474435734
- eISBN:
- 9781474453721
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435734.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The poet, critic and short story writer Arthur Symons (1865–1945) was an inveterate traveller who wrote frequently about the Channel and the North Cornish coasts in poetry and prose. During the 1890s ...
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The poet, critic and short story writer Arthur Symons (1865–1945) was an inveterate traveller who wrote frequently about the Channel and the North Cornish coasts in poetry and prose. During the 1890s and 1900s, he was at the forefront of the pre-modernist avant-garde, and was an important conduit for the dissemination of decadent and impressionist art in England. As a landscape writer, he blended the quasi-Impressionist methods of painters such as Whistler with the decadent’s concern with the privileged subjectivity of the artist. This chapter examines the implications of such practices for his treatment of Cornwall, Sussex and Dieppe – including in neglected later writings such as ‘Sea Magic’ (1920).Less
The poet, critic and short story writer Arthur Symons (1865–1945) was an inveterate traveller who wrote frequently about the Channel and the North Cornish coasts in poetry and prose. During the 1890s and 1900s, he was at the forefront of the pre-modernist avant-garde, and was an important conduit for the dissemination of decadent and impressionist art in England. As a landscape writer, he blended the quasi-Impressionist methods of painters such as Whistler with the decadent’s concern with the privileged subjectivity of the artist. This chapter examines the implications of such practices for his treatment of Cornwall, Sussex and Dieppe – including in neglected later writings such as ‘Sea Magic’ (1920).
Debbie Palmer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719090875
- eISBN:
- 9781781707043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090875.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter two explains why Cornwall Lunatic Asylum (CLA) nurses chose to join a trade union and take strike action in 1918, at the end of the First World War, by relating it to the terrible ...
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Chapter two explains why Cornwall Lunatic Asylum (CLA) nurses chose to join a trade union and take strike action in 1918, at the end of the First World War, by relating it to the terrible deterioration in their health and working conditions. Indeed, seven CLA nurses died from infectious diseases between 1917-18, all under the age of thirty. The chapter compares the impact of the war on nurses’ health at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital (SDEC) and examines whether these voluntary hospital nurses’ lack of interest in any form of occupational representation can be explained by the fact that they experienced little day-to-day change between 1914-18. Brian Abel-Smith and Christopher Hart cite the reason for voluntary hospital nurses’ choice of the College of Nursing and asylum nurses’ decision to join trade unions within a framework of gender and class. This chapter will assess how influential these factors were at the SDEC and CLA and suggest that further analysis must include nurses’ occupational health issues.Less
Chapter two explains why Cornwall Lunatic Asylum (CLA) nurses chose to join a trade union and take strike action in 1918, at the end of the First World War, by relating it to the terrible deterioration in their health and working conditions. Indeed, seven CLA nurses died from infectious diseases between 1917-18, all under the age of thirty. The chapter compares the impact of the war on nurses’ health at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital (SDEC) and examines whether these voluntary hospital nurses’ lack of interest in any form of occupational representation can be explained by the fact that they experienced little day-to-day change between 1914-18. Brian Abel-Smith and Christopher Hart cite the reason for voluntary hospital nurses’ choice of the College of Nursing and asylum nurses’ decision to join trade unions within a framework of gender and class. This chapter will assess how influential these factors were at the SDEC and CLA and suggest that further analysis must include nurses’ occupational health issues.
Patrick Collinson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719084423
- eISBN:
- 9781781702031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084423.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter examines John Stow's selective nostalgia, relating it to a religious position and religious attitudes which were evidently in a process of evolution throughout the forty years of his ...
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This chapter examines John Stow's selective nostalgia, relating it to a religious position and religious attitudes which were evidently in a process of evolution throughout the forty years of his antiquarian activity. It adds two contrasted points of contemporary reference: Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall, where present-tenseness contrasts with the past-tenseness of Stow's constantly reiterated ‘of old time’; and William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent, where the crudest anti-Romanism stands in stark contrast to Stow's religious conservatism. And yet, not only did Lambarde's Perambulation provide Stow with the model for his Survey of London The World We Have Lost. Stow referred to Lambarde as a loving friend: a touching tribute to the latitude of shared antiquarian enthusiasm.Less
This chapter examines John Stow's selective nostalgia, relating it to a religious position and religious attitudes which were evidently in a process of evolution throughout the forty years of his antiquarian activity. It adds two contrasted points of contemporary reference: Richard Carew's Survey of Cornwall, where present-tenseness contrasts with the past-tenseness of Stow's constantly reiterated ‘of old time’; and William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent, where the crudest anti-Romanism stands in stark contrast to Stow's religious conservatism. And yet, not only did Lambarde's Perambulation provide Stow with the model for his Survey of London The World We Have Lost. Stow referred to Lambarde as a loving friend: a touching tribute to the latitude of shared antiquarian enthusiasm.
Philip Payton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474473781
- eISBN:
- 9781474491273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474473781.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? asked Professor Charles Thomas in his seminal book of the same name (University of Wales Press, 1994), arguing that in the early medieval period, with its paucity ...
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And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? asked Professor Charles Thomas in his seminal book of the same name (University of Wales Press, 1994), arguing that in the early medieval period, with its paucity of documentary records, the inscribed standing stones of Cornwall were the best evidence for the existence of early Cornish people. The inference was that, in the modern era, with its multiplicity of sources and data, it was hardly necessary to resort to such devices. However, the ‘mute stones’ of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century Cornish diaspora – the grave stones of Cornish emigrants in cemeteries as disparate as Pachuca in Mexico and Moonta in South Australia – are vivid insights into the Cornish diasporic experience. Their location in often remote areas are testament to the extent of Cornish diasporic dispersal, while the inscriptions on individual gravestones are themselves important sources of social and cultural history. Moreover, these cemeteries and gravestones have served collectively and individually as memorials to the diasporic Cornish, often organised into distinctive ‘Cornish’ sections in graveyards, and are today explicit sites of remembrance – as in the ‘Dressing the Graves’ ceremony performed at Moonta, Wallaroo and Kadina during the biennial ‘Kernewek Lowender’ Cornish festival on South Australia’s northern Yorke Peninsula.Less
And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? asked Professor Charles Thomas in his seminal book of the same name (University of Wales Press, 1994), arguing that in the early medieval period, with its paucity of documentary records, the inscribed standing stones of Cornwall were the best evidence for the existence of early Cornish people. The inference was that, in the modern era, with its multiplicity of sources and data, it was hardly necessary to resort to such devices. However, the ‘mute stones’ of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century Cornish diaspora – the grave stones of Cornish emigrants in cemeteries as disparate as Pachuca in Mexico and Moonta in South Australia – are vivid insights into the Cornish diasporic experience. Their location in often remote areas are testament to the extent of Cornish diasporic dispersal, while the inscriptions on individual gravestones are themselves important sources of social and cultural history. Moreover, these cemeteries and gravestones have served collectively and individually as memorials to the diasporic Cornish, often organised into distinctive ‘Cornish’ sections in graveyards, and are today explicit sites of remembrance – as in the ‘Dressing the Graves’ ceremony performed at Moonta, Wallaroo and Kadina during the biennial ‘Kernewek Lowender’ Cornish festival on South Australia’s northern Yorke Peninsula.
