Peter Hall
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262863
- eISBN:
- 9780191734076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262863.003.0017
- Subject:
- Sociology, Population and Demography
Geographers only began to make a serious contribution to urban debates in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Their contributions fed actively into policy-making during and immediately after World War ...
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Geographers only began to make a serious contribution to urban debates in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Their contributions fed actively into policy-making during and immediately after World War II, when geographers began to be recruited in substantial numbers into the new planning machinery at both central and local government levels, following the passage of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. But there was one notable if somewhat eccentric exception, who must form a preamble to the main story. He was Patrick Geddes, a trained botanist who made his mark at the very start of the twentieth century. Another person who made an outstanding geographical contribution to planning was Lionel Dudley Stamp, who single-handedly launched the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain. This chapter also discusses the direct impact of academic geography upon planning in the country.Less
Geographers only began to make a serious contribution to urban debates in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Their contributions fed actively into policy-making during and immediately after World War II, when geographers began to be recruited in substantial numbers into the new planning machinery at both central and local government levels, following the passage of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. But there was one notable if somewhat eccentric exception, who must form a preamble to the main story. He was Patrick Geddes, a trained botanist who made his mark at the very start of the twentieth century. Another person who made an outstanding geographical contribution to planning was Lionel Dudley Stamp, who single-handedly launched the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain. This chapter also discusses the direct impact of academic geography upon planning in the country.
James D. Tracy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199209118
- eISBN:
- 9780191706134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199209118.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
As towns and provinces fell away, the Council of State recruited troops from France, from Germany, and from England, where Elizabeth I named the earl of Leicester as governor in the Low Countries, in ...
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As towns and provinces fell away, the Council of State recruited troops from France, from Germany, and from England, where Elizabeth I named the earl of Leicester as governor in the Low Countries, in keeping with the Treaty of Nonsuch (August 1585). Some contingents never came; those that did could not blunt Parma's advance. Meanwhile, the Lords States of Holland husbanded their resources for needs of the Union of Utrecht: garrisons at the “gateways” to Holland were paid regularly, those in Brussels were not. When Nijmegen went over to Spain, breaching the line of the Waal, funds were found to hold the line of the Rhine. This strategy did not counter Parma's, but it worked as well; at key points in Gelderland and Overijssel, the forward frontier was secured. As a protected island of peace in a sea of war, Holland would prosper as never before.Less
As towns and provinces fell away, the Council of State recruited troops from France, from Germany, and from England, where Elizabeth I named the earl of Leicester as governor in the Low Countries, in keeping with the Treaty of Nonsuch (August 1585). Some contingents never came; those that did could not blunt Parma's advance. Meanwhile, the Lords States of Holland husbanded their resources for needs of the Union of Utrecht: garrisons at the “gateways” to Holland were paid regularly, those in Brussels were not. When Nijmegen went over to Spain, breaching the line of the Waal, funds were found to hold the line of the Rhine. This strategy did not counter Parma's, but it worked as well; at key points in Gelderland and Overijssel, the forward frontier was secured. As a protected island of peace in a sea of war, Holland would prosper as never before.
David Loades
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This book reconstructs the personal and political life of John Dudley (1504–1553), Viscount Lisle, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland. For three and a half years (1549–1553) as Lord ...
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This book reconstructs the personal and political life of John Dudley (1504–1553), Viscount Lisle, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland. For three and a half years (1549–1553) as Lord President of the Council, he was leader of Edward VI's minority government. His involvement in the notorious attempt to frustrate Mary's claim to the throne in favour of his daughter-in-law, Jane Grey, contributed substantially to the evil reputation which clung to him both at the time and since. He is conventionally portrayed as an ambitious, unscrupulous man, who embraced and renounced the Reformation to suit his own purposes. The fact that his father was Henry VII's detested financial agent, Edmund Dudley, and one of his sons the colourful Earl of Leicester, has helped to confirm his unprincipled image. Now his reputation is being reassessed, but historians have concentrated almost entirely on his years in power — the last four years of his life. Drawing upon new research, this book looks at John Dudley's whole career, and by considering the lives of his father, Edmund, and his sons, places him in a longer historical perspective. A new and important interpretation of the Tudor service nobility emerges in which John Dudley is seen not merely as an overmighty subject and kingmaker, but first and foremost as a servant of the English Crown.Less
This book reconstructs the personal and political life of John Dudley (1504–1553), Viscount Lisle, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland. For three and a half years (1549–1553) as Lord President of the Council, he was leader of Edward VI's minority government. His involvement in the notorious attempt to frustrate Mary's claim to the throne in favour of his daughter-in-law, Jane Grey, contributed substantially to the evil reputation which clung to him both at the time and since. He is conventionally portrayed as an ambitious, unscrupulous man, who embraced and renounced the Reformation to suit his own purposes. The fact that his father was Henry VII's detested financial agent, Edmund Dudley, and one of his sons the colourful Earl of Leicester, has helped to confirm his unprincipled image. Now his reputation is being reassessed, but historians have concentrated almost entirely on his years in power — the last four years of his life. Drawing upon new research, this book looks at John Dudley's whole career, and by considering the lives of his father, Edmund, and his sons, places him in a longer historical perspective. A new and important interpretation of the Tudor service nobility emerges in which John Dudley is seen not merely as an overmighty subject and kingmaker, but first and foremost as a servant of the English Crown.
Mark Weston Janis
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579341
- eISBN:
- 9780191722653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579341.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Legal History
The era between the American Civil War and World War I, 1865-1914, was the most optimistic period of all for the American tradition of international law. This chapter explores the late 19th-century ...
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The era between the American Civil War and World War I, 1865-1914, was the most optimistic period of all for the American tradition of international law. This chapter explores the late 19th-century penchant for the science and codification of the law of nations, an aspiration inspired in part by Jeremy Bentham. After a brief word about Bentham, it introduces two great American codifiers of the time — Francis Lieber and David Dudley Field — and then the important digester of American international law, Francis Wharton. Finally, looking at the German/English scholar, Lassa Oppenheim, it considers the fate of the ‘science of international law’ and asks whether science or codification has significantly improved the efficacy of international law.Less
The era between the American Civil War and World War I, 1865-1914, was the most optimistic period of all for the American tradition of international law. This chapter explores the late 19th-century penchant for the science and codification of the law of nations, an aspiration inspired in part by Jeremy Bentham. After a brief word about Bentham, it introduces two great American codifiers of the time — Francis Lieber and David Dudley Field — and then the important digester of American international law, Francis Wharton. Finally, looking at the German/English scholar, Lassa Oppenheim, it considers the fate of the ‘science of international law’ and asks whether science or codification has significantly improved the efficacy of international law.
J. R. Watson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198269731
- eISBN:
- 9780191600791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269730.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
Contains 31 hymns from the time of the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. It was a period of broadcast hymns on radio and then television, and also of some writers in the grand ...
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Contains 31 hymns from the time of the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. It was a period of broadcast hymns on radio and then television, and also of some writers in the grand style, such as C.A. Alington. In the 1980s, following the pioneering work of Albert Bayly, there was a great flowering of new hymn writing by Timothy Dudley‐Smith, Fred Pratt Green, and others. Less orthodox hymns began to be written, such as ‘Lord of the dance’, by Sydney Carter. The book ends with Timothy Dudley‐Smith's alphabet hymn, beginning ‘All our days we will bless the Lord’, based on psalm 34, which is itself an acrostic.Less
Contains 31 hymns from the time of the Second World War to the end of the twentieth century. It was a period of broadcast hymns on radio and then television, and also of some writers in the grand style, such as C.A. Alington. In the 1980s, following the pioneering work of Albert Bayly, there was a great flowering of new hymn writing by Timothy Dudley‐Smith, Fred Pratt Green, and others. Less orthodox hymns began to be written, such as ‘Lord of the dance’, by Sydney Carter. The book ends with Timothy Dudley‐Smith's alphabet hymn, beginning ‘All our days we will bless the Lord’, based on psalm 34, which is itself an acrostic.
Vijaya Singh
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075936
- eISBN:
- 9780199081851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075936.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses certain theoretical prospects in film adaptation, addressing the question of narration in fiction and in film by commenting on the differences in approach between Geoffrey ...
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This chapter discusses certain theoretical prospects in film adaptation, addressing the question of narration in fiction and in film by commenting on the differences in approach between Geoffrey Wagner and Dudley J. Andrew and the significance of Brian McFarlane's theory of adaptation from fiction into film. To this end, the chapter offers a structural reading of the narrative using Satyajit Ray's Charulata, which is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella ‘Noshto Neerh’ (1901), at the level of textual praxis. Andrew emphasizes the sociological significance of adaptation, while Wagner describes three possible modes of adaptation on the basis of Bela Balaz's thesis: transposition, commentary, and analogy. By taking into account both Andrew's socio-cultural and Millicent Marcus's ‘sum total of encounters’, this chapter proves that it is possible to analyse in detail the internal and external dynamics of narration, ideology, and intertextuality in an adaptation.Less
This chapter discusses certain theoretical prospects in film adaptation, addressing the question of narration in fiction and in film by commenting on the differences in approach between Geoffrey Wagner and Dudley J. Andrew and the significance of Brian McFarlane's theory of adaptation from fiction into film. To this end, the chapter offers a structural reading of the narrative using Satyajit Ray's Charulata, which is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella ‘Noshto Neerh’ (1901), at the level of textual praxis. Andrew emphasizes the sociological significance of adaptation, while Wagner describes three possible modes of adaptation on the basis of Bela Balaz's thesis: transposition, commentary, and analogy. By taking into account both Andrew's socio-cultural and Millicent Marcus's ‘sum total of encounters’, this chapter proves that it is possible to analyse in detail the internal and external dynamics of narration, ideology, and intertextuality in an adaptation.
Edlie L. Wong
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479868001
- eISBN:
- 9781479899043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
By the final decades of the nineteenth century, the notion of an Asiatic threat was well established in U.S. culture, in part through “Yellow Peril” propaganda, a product of the Pacific Coast ...
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By the final decades of the nineteenth century, the notion of an Asiatic threat was well established in U.S. culture, in part through “Yellow Peril” propaganda, a product of the Pacific Coast anti-Chinese movement. Chapter 3 reads sensationalized Chinese invasion narratives alongside the key legal and political contexts that gave them narrative shape to tease out the racial fictions and counterfactual imaginings of this popular subgenre. From legal discourse to the forgotten novels of Pierton Dooner, Robert Woltor, and Arthur Dudley Vinton, the invasion trope dominated U.S.-China relations. The Janus-faced depictions of Chinese labor migrants as abject coolie-slaves and villainous agents of foreign aggression embodied the contradictions of American industrial modernity. In imagining the tragic consequences of unfettered Chinese immigration, the subgenre absorbed and refracted white anxieties over the end of western expansion—American Manifest Destiny—and the changing composition of the national polity after black citizenship and enfranchisement.Less
By the final decades of the nineteenth century, the notion of an Asiatic threat was well established in U.S. culture, in part through “Yellow Peril” propaganda, a product of the Pacific Coast anti-Chinese movement. Chapter 3 reads sensationalized Chinese invasion narratives alongside the key legal and political contexts that gave them narrative shape to tease out the racial fictions and counterfactual imaginings of this popular subgenre. From legal discourse to the forgotten novels of Pierton Dooner, Robert Woltor, and Arthur Dudley Vinton, the invasion trope dominated U.S.-China relations. The Janus-faced depictions of Chinese labor migrants as abject coolie-slaves and villainous agents of foreign aggression embodied the contradictions of American industrial modernity. In imagining the tragic consequences of unfettered Chinese immigration, the subgenre absorbed and refracted white anxieties over the end of western expansion—American Manifest Destiny—and the changing composition of the national polity after black citizenship and enfranchisement.
Richard H. Trainor
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203551
- eISBN:
- 9780191675850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203551.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the demography and geography of the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It analyses the economic and ...
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This chapter examines the demography and geography of the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It analyses the economic and social setting in which local and district elites exercised authority and identifies the key factors which shaped their leadership. It investigates the problems that confronted Black Country elites and the assets they brought to overcome those problems. This chapter also examines the economic and social development and the social stratification of West Bromwich, Dudley, and Bilston in the context in the Black Country.Less
This chapter examines the demography and geography of the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It analyses the economic and social setting in which local and district elites exercised authority and identifies the key factors which shaped their leadership. It investigates the problems that confronted Black Country elites and the assets they brought to overcome those problems. This chapter also examines the economic and social development and the social stratification of West Bromwich, Dudley, and Bilston in the context in the Black Country.
Richard H. Trainor
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203551
- eISBN:
- 9780191675850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203551.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the elite structures and attitudes in the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It describes the ...
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This chapter examines the elite structures and attitudes in the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It describes the social, political, and religious characteristics, the internal links, the external ties, and the general attitudes of Black Country elites. It focuses on the business elites in West Bromwich, Dudley, and Bilston, with special emphasis on local government and philanthropic leaders.Less
This chapter examines the elite structures and attitudes in the Black Country or the industrialized area of South Staffordshire in England during the period from 1830 to 1900. It describes the social, political, and religious characteristics, the internal links, the external ties, and the general attitudes of Black Country elites. It focuses on the business elites in West Bromwich, Dudley, and Bilston, with special emphasis on local government and philanthropic leaders.
DAVID LOADES
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter presents an overview of Edmund Dudley's career. It details his activities as part of Henry VII's royal councillors as well as his subsequent rise to notoriety. It discusses how Dudley ...
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This chapter presents an overview of Edmund Dudley's career. It details his activities as part of Henry VII's royal councillors as well as his subsequent rise to notoriety. It discusses how Dudley and his colleague Sir Richard Empson, following the death of Henry VII, became scapegoats for the abuses inflicted by the king.Less
This chapter presents an overview of Edmund Dudley's career. It details his activities as part of Henry VII's royal councillors as well as his subsequent rise to notoriety. It discusses how Dudley and his colleague Sir Richard Empson, following the death of Henry VII, became scapegoats for the abuses inflicted by the king.
DAVID LOADES
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their ...
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This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their mother, but it is not known where — or with whom — she lived with during this period. He began his career in 1523, when, at the age of 19, he served a lieutenant in the Duke of Suffolk's army. By 1527 Sir John became a young man of some substance and had also taken a wife. In November 1539, he was named Master of the Horse to Henry's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and he played a prominent part in the ceremonies which attended her ill-omened arrival in January 1540.Less
This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their mother, but it is not known where — or with whom — she lived with during this period. He began his career in 1523, when, at the age of 19, he served a lieutenant in the Duke of Suffolk's army. By 1527 Sir John became a young man of some substance and had also taken a wife. In November 1539, he was named Master of the Horse to Henry's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and he played a prominent part in the ceremonies which attended her ill-omened arrival in January 1540.
DAVID LOADES
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter details the life and career of John Dudley from 1551–1553. The Tudors commonly signalled important shifts in policy, or in the structure of power, with clusters of peerage creations or ...
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This chapter details the life and career of John Dudley from 1551–1553. The Tudors commonly signalled important shifts in policy, or in the structure of power, with clusters of peerage creations or promotions. On October 1551, the second and final fall of the Duke of Somerset was immediately preceded by three promotions and one new creation of the greatest significance. The creation was that of Sir William Herbert, Master of the Horse and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, as Earl of Pembroke. The promotions included John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, as Duke of Northumberland.Less
This chapter details the life and career of John Dudley from 1551–1553. The Tudors commonly signalled important shifts in policy, or in the structure of power, with clusters of peerage creations or promotions. On October 1551, the second and final fall of the Duke of Somerset was immediately preceded by three promotions and one new creation of the greatest significance. The creation was that of Sir William Herbert, Master of the Horse and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, as Earl of Pembroke. The promotions included John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, as Duke of Northumberland.
DAVID LOADES
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the aftermath of the fall of the Duke of Northumberland, which disbanded his household and scattered his family-based affinity. It shows that John Dudley's ambitions, talents, ...
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This chapter discusses the aftermath of the fall of the Duke of Northumberland, which disbanded his household and scattered his family-based affinity. It shows that John Dudley's ambitions, talents, and limitations determined the conduct of government during the second half of Edward VI's minority. For much of his career he can only be glimpsed going about his business and acting in the King's service. He was a difficult, contradictory man whose career is impossible to sum up in a few words. However, he is one of a handful of men through whom the power structures of Tudor England can be approached and understood.Less
This chapter discusses the aftermath of the fall of the Duke of Northumberland, which disbanded his household and scattered his family-based affinity. It shows that John Dudley's ambitions, talents, and limitations determined the conduct of government during the second half of Edward VI's minority. For much of his career he can only be glimpsed going about his business and acting in the King's service. He was a difficult, contradictory man whose career is impossible to sum up in a few words. However, he is one of a handful of men through whom the power structures of Tudor England can be approached and understood.
Felicity Colman
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169738
- eISBN:
- 9780231850605
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169738.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, ...
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This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The book takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar. It argues that film theory, like all grammars, forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. It describes how film theories create authorial trends, identify the technology of cinema as a creative force and produce films as aesthetic markers. It argues that film theories therefore contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition. The book then explores these connections through film theorisations that address processes related to the diagrammatisation (the systems, methodologies, concepts, histories) of cinematic matters.Less
This book addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers. It references the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The book takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar. It argues that film theory, like all grammars, forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. It describes how film theories create authorial trends, identify the technology of cinema as a creative force and produce films as aesthetic markers. It argues that film theories therefore contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition. The book then explores these connections through film theorisations that address processes related to the diagrammatisation (the systems, methodologies, concepts, histories) of cinematic matters.
Robert R. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199656059
- eISBN:
- 9780191744846
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656059.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
After the death of the moral God, both Hegel and Nietzsche continue to grapple with the theodicy question, not as a defense of the justice and goodness of God in the face of evil, but understood in a ...
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After the death of the moral God, both Hegel and Nietzsche continue to grapple with the theodicy question, not as a defense of the justice and goodness of God in the face of evil, but understood in a broader sense of reconciling human beings to a world that presents tragic conflicts and suffering. Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy embraces a vision of the world as a tragic sublime beyond morality and practical reason, to wit, joyous fatalism, that wishes the present to be repeated eternally. But what is Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy? How is it related to metaphysics and theology? There is no consensus. This chapter examines the views of Karl Löwith, Will Dudley, and Michel Haar. In the latter case Haar offers a careful analysis of the complexity of Nietzsche and the question of metaphysics. In spite of his critique of metaphysics, Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy continues it. Nietzsche’s world view is close to Hegel’s in valuing becoming as the primary category and in regarding being as an abstraction. In this respect both claim to be and are influenced by Heraclitus. Both draw upon Heraclitus to dissolve the fixed oppositions of the Kantian frame. What is less clear is whether Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and joyous fatalism, which are Dionysian, are compatible with the Kantian frame, which is basically Apollinian. Although Nietzsche, like Hegel, is a fan of Heraclitus, he fails to resolve the question.Less
After the death of the moral God, both Hegel and Nietzsche continue to grapple with the theodicy question, not as a defense of the justice and goodness of God in the face of evil, but understood in a broader sense of reconciling human beings to a world that presents tragic conflicts and suffering. Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy embraces a vision of the world as a tragic sublime beyond morality and practical reason, to wit, joyous fatalism, that wishes the present to be repeated eternally. But what is Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy? How is it related to metaphysics and theology? There is no consensus. This chapter examines the views of Karl Löwith, Will Dudley, and Michel Haar. In the latter case Haar offers a careful analysis of the complexity of Nietzsche and the question of metaphysics. In spite of his critique of metaphysics, Nietzsche’s aesthetic theodicy continues it. Nietzsche’s world view is close to Hegel’s in valuing becoming as the primary category and in regarding being as an abstraction. In this respect both claim to be and are influenced by Heraclitus. Both draw upon Heraclitus to dissolve the fixed oppositions of the Kantian frame. What is less clear is whether Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and joyous fatalism, which are Dionysian, are compatible with the Kantian frame, which is basically Apollinian. Although Nietzsche, like Hegel, is a fan of Heraclitus, he fails to resolve the question.
Karen Junod
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199597000
- eISBN:
- 9780191725357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199597000.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Chapter 3 argues that Beckford's Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780) should be regarded as an idiosyncratic response to the connoisseurial discourse elaborated in the eighteenth and ...
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Chapter 3 argues that Beckford's Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780) should be regarded as an idiosyncratic response to the connoisseurial discourse elaborated in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Beckford's knowledge of art and art theory, combined with his talents as a satirical novelist, produced a work which was not only funny but also theoretically insightful. Beckford's work directly responded to, and was inspired by, other contemporary writing on art and artists. Indeed, the Memoirs was closely related to other artistic satires produced in England, by writers such as Henry Bate Dudley, Peter Pindar, and Anthony Pasquin. Beckford's text also contains certain tropes and topoi – already present in Walpole's Anecdotes – which participated in constructing specific artistic individualities, some of which would re-emerge later in the lives of historical British painters.Less
Chapter 3 argues that Beckford's Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780) should be regarded as an idiosyncratic response to the connoisseurial discourse elaborated in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Beckford's knowledge of art and art theory, combined with his talents as a satirical novelist, produced a work which was not only funny but also theoretically insightful. Beckford's work directly responded to, and was inspired by, other contemporary writing on art and artists. Indeed, the Memoirs was closely related to other artistic satires produced in England, by writers such as Henry Bate Dudley, Peter Pindar, and Anthony Pasquin. Beckford's text also contains certain tropes and topoi – already present in Walpole's Anecdotes – which participated in constructing specific artistic individualities, some of which would re-emerge later in the lives of historical British painters.
Forrest G. Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227877
- eISBN:
- 9780823240968
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823227877.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
Clemens's first novel, The Gilded Age, which he coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner, is a notable exception to this general pattern. His family members served as models for major characters, but ...
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Clemens's first novel, The Gilded Age, which he coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner, is a notable exception to this general pattern. His family members served as models for major characters, but Clemens did not closely identify anyone in the book. His father's insolvency and the grinding poverty of his childhood years were reflected in the book. The main focus of the book is directed upward to the folly of the larger public but Clemens's considerable moral energy in the novel seldom turned inward upon himself. In channeling his anger outward toward others he avoids a personal self-reckoning on the same highly charged issue. The Gilded Age is in contrast to the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is a social and political satire of decidedly adult nature, while The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a rural and highly autobiographical idyll written for and about children.Less
Clemens's first novel, The Gilded Age, which he coauthored with Charles Dudley Warner, is a notable exception to this general pattern. His family members served as models for major characters, but Clemens did not closely identify anyone in the book. His father's insolvency and the grinding poverty of his childhood years were reflected in the book. The main focus of the book is directed upward to the folly of the larger public but Clemens's considerable moral energy in the novel seldom turned inward upon himself. In channeling his anger outward toward others he avoids a personal self-reckoning on the same highly charged issue. The Gilded Age is in contrast to the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is a social and political satire of decidedly adult nature, while The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a rural and highly autobiographical idyll written for and about children.
Glyn Parry and Cathryn Enis
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198862918
- eISBN:
- 9780191895425
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198862918.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Cultural History
This book puts William Shakespeare’s Stratford upbringing into significant historical context for the first time and provides new ways of thinking about Warwickshire and Elizabethan England. It uses ...
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This book puts William Shakespeare’s Stratford upbringing into significant historical context for the first time and provides new ways of thinking about Warwickshire and Elizabethan England. It uses new archival discoveries about three families: the Shakespeares, the brothers Ambrose and Robert Dudley, earls of Warwick and Leicester, and the Arden family headed by Edward Arden. It shows that as he grew up William Shakespeare was exposed to the Dudleys’ political, legal, historical, and genealogical claims for their authority in Warwickshire and Stratford, an assault on the county’s collective memory resisted by the Ardens and other gentry. As her proxies, the Dudleys established Elizabeth I’s Protestant regime in the west Midlands, culminating in Edward Arden’s destruction on false treason charges in 1583. By then the Shakespeares also had direct experience of the London government’s power in the localities. From 1569 Exchequer informers, backed by influential politicians at Court, accused William’s father John of illegal wool-dealing and usury. Contrary to previous claims that he had escaped these charges by 1572, new sources show how the Exchequer’s continuing demands undermined John’s credit rating by 1577, forcing his withdrawal from Stratford politics, and curtailing his business career in the early 1580s. In the fallout from Arden’s destruction the Elizabethan regime also punished the Shakespeares’ friends and neighbours, the Quineys for their alleged financial links to the traitorous Ardens, despite local knowledge to the contrary, confirming Shakespeare’s sceptical understanding of the realities of power that we find in his later plays.Less
This book puts William Shakespeare’s Stratford upbringing into significant historical context for the first time and provides new ways of thinking about Warwickshire and Elizabethan England. It uses new archival discoveries about three families: the Shakespeares, the brothers Ambrose and Robert Dudley, earls of Warwick and Leicester, and the Arden family headed by Edward Arden. It shows that as he grew up William Shakespeare was exposed to the Dudleys’ political, legal, historical, and genealogical claims for their authority in Warwickshire and Stratford, an assault on the county’s collective memory resisted by the Ardens and other gentry. As her proxies, the Dudleys established Elizabeth I’s Protestant regime in the west Midlands, culminating in Edward Arden’s destruction on false treason charges in 1583. By then the Shakespeares also had direct experience of the London government’s power in the localities. From 1569 Exchequer informers, backed by influential politicians at Court, accused William’s father John of illegal wool-dealing and usury. Contrary to previous claims that he had escaped these charges by 1572, new sources show how the Exchequer’s continuing demands undermined John’s credit rating by 1577, forcing his withdrawal from Stratford politics, and curtailing his business career in the early 1580s. In the fallout from Arden’s destruction the Elizabethan regime also punished the Shakespeares’ friends and neighbours, the Quineys for their alleged financial links to the traitorous Ardens, despite local knowledge to the contrary, confirming Shakespeare’s sceptical understanding of the realities of power that we find in his later plays.
Bob Holman
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343536
- eISBN:
- 9781447301653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343536.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Barbara Kahan spent a long time in the world of child welfare. Her professional lifespan coincided with many major developments for disadvantaged and deprived children. As a local authority ...
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Barbara Kahan spent a long time in the world of child welfare. Her professional lifespan coincided with many major developments for disadvantaged and deprived children. As a local authority practitioner, senior civil servant, writer, and campaigner, Kahan was always at the forefront. She won a state scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1939, a development that changed her life. In 1943, Kahan was assigned as a government inspector of factories in the Midlands. From newspapers, she learnt about the campaign of Lady Allen of Hurtwood to improve the lives of deprived children. Kahan read and wept over the Curtis Report. She was determined to work among such children and applied for the newly created post of children's officer for Dudley. By the late 1960s, Kahan was a national figure within child-care circles. She played important roles in a committee chaired by Frederic Seebohm to consider what changes were necessary to ensure an effective family service, and in the passage of the Local Authority Social Services Act of 1970.Less
Barbara Kahan spent a long time in the world of child welfare. Her professional lifespan coincided with many major developments for disadvantaged and deprived children. As a local authority practitioner, senior civil servant, writer, and campaigner, Kahan was always at the forefront. She won a state scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1939, a development that changed her life. In 1943, Kahan was assigned as a government inspector of factories in the Midlands. From newspapers, she learnt about the campaign of Lady Allen of Hurtwood to improve the lives of deprived children. Kahan read and wept over the Curtis Report. She was determined to work among such children and applied for the newly created post of children's officer for Dudley. By the late 1960s, Kahan was a national figure within child-care circles. She played important roles in a committee chaired by Frederic Seebohm to consider what changes were necessary to ensure an effective family service, and in the passage of the Local Authority Social Services Act of 1970.
Marianne E. Krasny and Keith G. Tidball
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028653
- eISBN:
- 9780262327169
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028653.003.0002
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Broken places, also referred to as red zones, are places that suffer from poverty, crime, war, disaster, and environmental degradation. When they are created by sudden disturbances such as hurricanes ...
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Broken places, also referred to as red zones, are places that suffer from poverty, crime, war, disaster, and environmental degradation. When they are created by sudden disturbances such as hurricanes or war, we call them “sudden red zones.” When they are created gradually over many years by industries abandoning a city, leaving behind unemployment, poverty, crime, environmental contamination, and neglected open space, they are called “slow burn” declines. In some cases, a lake, city or other social-ecological system crosses a “threshold” after a sudden or slow-burn decline, where ongoing social and ecological processes are seriously disrupted. Community gardening in Detroit and Boston, memorial gardens after 9/11 in New York City, and community tree planting in New Orleans all demonstrate how civic ecology practices emerge in sudden and slow-burn broken places.Less
Broken places, also referred to as red zones, are places that suffer from poverty, crime, war, disaster, and environmental degradation. When they are created by sudden disturbances such as hurricanes or war, we call them “sudden red zones.” When they are created gradually over many years by industries abandoning a city, leaving behind unemployment, poverty, crime, environmental contamination, and neglected open space, they are called “slow burn” declines. In some cases, a lake, city or other social-ecological system crosses a “threshold” after a sudden or slow-burn decline, where ongoing social and ecological processes are seriously disrupted. Community gardening in Detroit and Boston, memorial gardens after 9/11 in New York City, and community tree planting in New Orleans all demonstrate how civic ecology practices emerge in sudden and slow-burn broken places.
