Russell W. Peterson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195309454
- eISBN:
- 9780199871261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309454.003.0002
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter discusses the excesses of the Industrial Revolution and the explosion of the human population as the issues that showed us the devastating impact that human activities could have on the ...
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This chapter discusses the excesses of the Industrial Revolution and the explosion of the human population as the issues that showed us the devastating impact that human activities could have on the earth. It traces the environmental movement through the 20th century, noting that it gained an ethic and a mission with two important mid-century publications: Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac in 1949 and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It reviews the life and accomplishments of Lee Talbot, a key player in the development of US environmental policy and practice.Less
This chapter discusses the excesses of the Industrial Revolution and the explosion of the human population as the issues that showed us the devastating impact that human activities could have on the earth. It traces the environmental movement through the 20th century, noting that it gained an ethic and a mission with two important mid-century publications: Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac in 1949 and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It reviews the life and accomplishments of Lee Talbot, a key player in the development of US environmental policy and practice.
Anita Rønne
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579853
- eISBN:
- 9780191722745
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579853.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Environmental and Energy Law
This chapter analyses different entitlements to natural resources and the extent to which state ownership implies a different or less intensive regulation than where such ownership is not the case. ...
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This chapter analyses different entitlements to natural resources and the extent to which state ownership implies a different or less intensive regulation than where such ownership is not the case. It will focus on the prime regulatory instruments used to transfer rights of utilization, and seeks to identify the differences as to the protection of those rights, if any. The topic will be illustrated by different civil law examples. The analysis will be limited to three groups of natural resources: (i) oil and gas; (ii) sand, stone and gravel; and (iii) wind and waves.Less
This chapter analyses different entitlements to natural resources and the extent to which state ownership implies a different or less intensive regulation than where such ownership is not the case. It will focus on the prime regulatory instruments used to transfer rights of utilization, and seeks to identify the differences as to the protection of those rights, if any. The topic will be illustrated by different civil law examples. The analysis will be limited to three groups of natural resources: (i) oil and gas; (ii) sand, stone and gravel; and (iii) wind and waves.
Ernest H. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195179293
- eISBN:
- 9780199790470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179293.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
The habitats of coastal margins include marshes, estuaries, mud flats, sand dunes, rocky shores, and coastal forests, all of which are influenced by salt spray and the rising and falling of tidal ...
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The habitats of coastal margins include marshes, estuaries, mud flats, sand dunes, rocky shores, and coastal forests, all of which are influenced by salt spray and the rising and falling of tidal waters. The intertidal gradient from high and dry to continuously submerged strongly affects plants and animals because the physical conditions for life change so dramatically over such a short distance. A number of observations described in this chapter reflect the differences across the intertidal zone.Less
The habitats of coastal margins include marshes, estuaries, mud flats, sand dunes, rocky shores, and coastal forests, all of which are influenced by salt spray and the rising and falling of tidal waters. The intertidal gradient from high and dry to continuously submerged strongly affects plants and animals because the physical conditions for life change so dramatically over such a short distance. A number of observations described in this chapter reflect the differences across the intertidal zone.
Mary Orr
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199258581
- eISBN:
- 9780191718083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258581.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The book concludes by reappraising critics' blocks, but through rereading Flaubert's well‐known correspondence with Sand and Colet and response to the camera of Du Camp, all against crucial moments ...
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The book concludes by reappraising critics' blocks, but through rereading Flaubert's well‐known correspondence with Sand and Colet and response to the camera of Du Camp, all against crucial moments in the revision of the Tentation. This way of remapping the significance of the text in the personal and literary‐historical lives of its creation, borrows explicitly from the vocabulary of French ‘evolutionary’ theory, Lamarckian ‘transformisme’. The concluding sections thus name the ‘unities of composition’ and ‘literary transformisms’ of Flaubert's 1874 Tentation and the text as a paradigm of both ‘literary science’ and the ‘fantastic real’. The vital importance of the dialogic structure of the work—religion and science; the Egypt of Saint Anthony and Antoine—marks this ‘oeuvre de toute [sa] vie’ as an ‘oeuvre de toute la vie’, religious and scientific, of 19th‐century France. Supremely a text which challenges received ideas and doxa, Flaubert's Tentation everywhere prizes probing literary‐critical vision of his own times.Less
The book concludes by reappraising critics' blocks, but through rereading Flaubert's well‐known correspondence with Sand and Colet and response to the camera of Du Camp, all against crucial moments in the revision of the Tentation. This way of remapping the significance of the text in the personal and literary‐historical lives of its creation, borrows explicitly from the vocabulary of French ‘evolutionary’ theory, Lamarckian ‘transformisme’. The concluding sections thus name the ‘unities of composition’ and ‘literary transformisms’ of Flaubert's 1874 Tentation and the text as a paradigm of both ‘literary science’ and the ‘fantastic real’. The vital importance of the dialogic structure of the work—religion and science; the Egypt of Saint Anthony and Antoine—marks this ‘oeuvre de toute [sa] vie’ as an ‘oeuvre de toute la vie’, religious and scientific, of 19th‐century France. Supremely a text which challenges received ideas and doxa, Flaubert's Tentation everywhere prizes probing literary‐critical vision of his own times.
J. Leo van Hemmen
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195148220
- eISBN:
- 9780199864676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.003.0005
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems
This chapter addresses the questions: what is a neuronal map, how does it arise, and what is it good for? It studies three examples, the sand scorpion, the barn owl, and the paddle fish. It presents ...
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This chapter addresses the questions: what is a neuronal map, how does it arise, and what is it good for? It studies three examples, the sand scorpion, the barn owl, and the paddle fish. It presents evidence both for synaptic learning through a learning window, a kind of “map formation” at a single neuron, and for map formation in the true sense of the phrase as a consequence of interaction between different developing synapses at different neurons.Less
This chapter addresses the questions: what is a neuronal map, how does it arise, and what is it good for? It studies three examples, the sand scorpion, the barn owl, and the paddle fish. It presents evidence both for synaptic learning through a learning window, a kind of “map formation” at a single neuron, and for map formation in the true sense of the phrase as a consequence of interaction between different developing synapses at different neurons.
Charles Capper
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195396324
- eISBN:
- 9780199852703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195396324.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines Margaret Fuller’s assignment to England as the first female foreign correspondent of the New York Tribune in 1846. During these travels, Fuller wrote about her experiences, and ...
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This chapter examines Margaret Fuller’s assignment to England as the first female foreign correspondent of the New York Tribune in 1846. During these travels, Fuller wrote about her experiences, and in the process created a new literary genre called travel narratives. After arriving in England, she had the opportunity to interview several prominent writers of the time including Thomas Carlyle and George Sand.Less
This chapter examines Margaret Fuller’s assignment to England as the first female foreign correspondent of the New York Tribune in 1846. During these travels, Fuller wrote about her experiences, and in the process created a new literary genre called travel narratives. After arriving in England, she had the opportunity to interview several prominent writers of the time including Thomas Carlyle and George Sand.
Mark Walczynski
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501748240
- eISBN:
- 9781501748264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501748240.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This concluding chapter demonstrates that under state management, Starved Rock State Park grew in popularity. The park provided specialists from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a training area to ...
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This concluding chapter demonstrates that under state management, Starved Rock State Park grew in popularity. The park provided specialists from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a training area to master the military art of pontoon bridge assembly in preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany in World War II. Equally important, the park was where locals came to work and to relax in the 1950s and 1960s, and it is where today over two million people come to hike, camp, picnic, fish, hunt, and enjoy nature every year. However, the very geologic composition of Starved Rock and its environs has created a new challenge for the twenty-first century. Sand companies now mine silica sand near the park. The challenge is one of balance between protection of the park's fragile natural resources versus the competing interests of local governments and residents desiring new employment opportunities. In addition, the Starved Rock Dam, completed in 1933, raised the level of the Illinois River above the dam about ten feet. Nevertheless, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources employees at Starved Rock State Park are dedicated to preserving and maintaining the park and to serving park visitors.Less
This concluding chapter demonstrates that under state management, Starved Rock State Park grew in popularity. The park provided specialists from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a training area to master the military art of pontoon bridge assembly in preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany in World War II. Equally important, the park was where locals came to work and to relax in the 1950s and 1960s, and it is where today over two million people come to hike, camp, picnic, fish, hunt, and enjoy nature every year. However, the very geologic composition of Starved Rock and its environs has created a new challenge for the twenty-first century. Sand companies now mine silica sand near the park. The challenge is one of balance between protection of the park's fragile natural resources versus the competing interests of local governments and residents desiring new employment opportunities. In addition, the Starved Rock Dam, completed in 1933, raised the level of the Illinois River above the dam about ten feet. Nevertheless, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources employees at Starved Rock State Park are dedicated to preserving and maintaining the park and to serving park visitors.
Jan Brokken
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461855
- eISBN:
- 9781626740914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461855.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter is a discussion at greater length of the migration of the mazurka from Poland to Russia and of Chopin’s mazurka and its appeal to Caribbean composers and dancers as well as the fact that ...
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This chapter is a discussion at greater length of the migration of the mazurka from Poland to Russia and of Chopin’s mazurka and its appeal to Caribbean composers and dancers as well as the fact that Chopin too was an immigrant as well as a short character sketch of ChopinLess
This chapter is a discussion at greater length of the migration of the mazurka from Poland to Russia and of Chopin’s mazurka and its appeal to Caribbean composers and dancers as well as the fact that Chopin too was an immigrant as well as a short character sketch of Chopin
Orvar Löfgren
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217676
- eISBN:
- 9780520928992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217676.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which ...
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This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which relies on the romance of the tropical beach and the South Pacific. It then identifies the three basic elements that make up the global beach, namely sand, sun, and sea, and states that the beach was the site of the making of the modern body. This chapter also discusses beach etiquette, how to signal privacy while on the beach, sand castles, and the activities one can do on a beach.Less
This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which relies on the romance of the tropical beach and the South Pacific. It then identifies the three basic elements that make up the global beach, namely sand, sun, and sea, and states that the beach was the site of the making of the modern body. This chapter also discusses beach etiquette, how to signal privacy while on the beach, sand castles, and the activities one can do on a beach.
David Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264508
- eISBN:
- 9780191734120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264508.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter examines discoveries of pre-Viking material that have occurred in sand-dune-dominated coastal margins and evaluates whether they are indicative of pre-Viking trade in the British and ...
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This chapter examines discoveries of pre-Viking material that have occurred in sand-dune-dominated coastal margins and evaluates whether they are indicative of pre-Viking trade in the British and Irish Islands. It explains that sporadic occurrence of early medieval metalwork, glass, and pottery in these locations largely lacks contextual support and that this raises a number of interpretive problems. The chapter also provides some thoughts about Anglo-Irish economic contact during the mid-first millennium.Less
This chapter examines discoveries of pre-Viking material that have occurred in sand-dune-dominated coastal margins and evaluates whether they are indicative of pre-Viking trade in the British and Irish Islands. It explains that sporadic occurrence of early medieval metalwork, glass, and pottery in these locations largely lacks contextual support and that this raises a number of interpretive problems. The chapter also provides some thoughts about Anglo-Irish economic contact during the mid-first millennium.
C. W. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199233540
- eISBN:
- 9780191730948
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233540.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Most leading French authors wrote travel books in the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the Romantic travelogues they produced and ...
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Most leading French authors wrote travel books in the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the Romantic travelogues they produced and the reasons for and significance of this trend. For while ‘the journey’ was a central image and myth of all Romanticism, suggesting as it did a dynamic, expanding, and evermore complex world in which artists' lives were increasingly experienced as wanderings and endless quests, the fashion for Romantic travel books was more marked in France than in Germany or England. Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Nodier, Hugo, Lamartine, Nerval, Gautier, Sand, Custine, Quinet, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan all wrote one or more travelogues, including four masterpieces — Hugo's Le Rhin (1842), Nerval's Le Voyage en Orient (1851), and Stendhal's two Rome, Naples et Florence (1817 and 1826). The book explores the reasons for this difference from England and Germany and its underpinning by the aims of French foreign and cultural policies as well as the needs of Parisian publishers. It puts the case for the collective achievement and essentially promising character of these Romantic travel books, compared to those of most later writers in nineteenth‐century France. A distinctive feature of the survey is its belief in the value of concentrating on the text of these books as published by their authors, as opposed to manuscript and peripheral material, whether recovered posthumously or published piecemeal in contemporary reviews.Less
Most leading French authors wrote travel books in the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the Romantic travelogues they produced and the reasons for and significance of this trend. For while ‘the journey’ was a central image and myth of all Romanticism, suggesting as it did a dynamic, expanding, and evermore complex world in which artists' lives were increasingly experienced as wanderings and endless quests, the fashion for Romantic travel books was more marked in France than in Germany or England. Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Nodier, Hugo, Lamartine, Nerval, Gautier, Sand, Custine, Quinet, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan all wrote one or more travelogues, including four masterpieces — Hugo's Le Rhin (1842), Nerval's Le Voyage en Orient (1851), and Stendhal's two Rome, Naples et Florence (1817 and 1826). The book explores the reasons for this difference from England and Germany and its underpinning by the aims of French foreign and cultural policies as well as the needs of Parisian publishers. It puts the case for the collective achievement and essentially promising character of these Romantic travel books, compared to those of most later writers in nineteenth‐century France. A distinctive feature of the survey is its belief in the value of concentrating on the text of these books as published by their authors, as opposed to manuscript and peripheral material, whether recovered posthumously or published piecemeal in contemporary reviews.
Thomas Kselman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300226133
- eISBN:
- 9780300235647
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300226133.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book explores how the French responded to the right of religious choice acquired during the revolutionary era. Religious liberty is usually part of a larger discussion about church-state ...
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This book explores how the French responded to the right of religious choice acquired during the revolutionary era. Religious liberty is usually part of a larger discussion about church-state relations, a context that veils the way it plays out in the lives of individuals. After establishing the legal and cultural framework for religious liberty during the Restoration (1814-1848), Kselman studies a number of prominent converts whose stories are documented in letters, memoirs, novels, and newspapers. These individuals, including Ivan Gagarin, George Sand, and Ernest Renan, moved both into and away from the Catholic Church, revealing the variety and complexity of religious choices in the modern era. Through an examination of their lives the book asks what it means for individuals to be allowed, as a normal aspect of life, to choose their own religious commitments, and how such choices affect personal identity and the process of fashioning a self. This book sheds light on the psychological, social, and religious reasons underlying their decisions to convert, the effects of their conversion on family and community, and how this sense of liberty informs our secular age.Less
This book explores how the French responded to the right of religious choice acquired during the revolutionary era. Religious liberty is usually part of a larger discussion about church-state relations, a context that veils the way it plays out in the lives of individuals. After establishing the legal and cultural framework for religious liberty during the Restoration (1814-1848), Kselman studies a number of prominent converts whose stories are documented in letters, memoirs, novels, and newspapers. These individuals, including Ivan Gagarin, George Sand, and Ernest Renan, moved both into and away from the Catholic Church, revealing the variety and complexity of religious choices in the modern era. Through an examination of their lives the book asks what it means for individuals to be allowed, as a normal aspect of life, to choose their own religious commitments, and how such choices affect personal identity and the process of fashioning a self. This book sheds light on the psychological, social, and religious reasons underlying their decisions to convert, the effects of their conversion on family and community, and how this sense of liberty informs our secular age.
Gould Warwick and Reeves Marjorie
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199242306
- eISBN:
- 9780191697081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199242306.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Theology
Pierre Leroux was a revolutionary drawn to the Middle Ages by his instinct for religion, but in sharp revolt against all forms of constricting ecclesiastical authority. The republic of the future ...
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Pierre Leroux was a revolutionary drawn to the Middle Ages by his instinct for religion, but in sharp revolt against all forms of constricting ecclesiastical authority. The republic of the future must be founded on religion, but Leroux was caught in the same dilemma as others. On the one hand, he held that the new faith must deny the past. Leroux believed that, as religion is renewed through philosophy, it can no longer be enclosed within Christianity. Christianity had manifested itself in two stages, Catholicism and Protestantism, and now the third stage of the new religion must reveal itself. It is at this point in the argument that he fastens again on that powerful symbol of the Eternal Evangel. This chapter looks at the influence of Joachimism and the Eternal Evangel on Pierre Leroux's writings and George Sand's novels.Less
Pierre Leroux was a revolutionary drawn to the Middle Ages by his instinct for religion, but in sharp revolt against all forms of constricting ecclesiastical authority. The republic of the future must be founded on religion, but Leroux was caught in the same dilemma as others. On the one hand, he held that the new faith must deny the past. Leroux believed that, as religion is renewed through philosophy, it can no longer be enclosed within Christianity. Christianity had manifested itself in two stages, Catholicism and Protestantism, and now the third stage of the new religion must reveal itself. It is at this point in the argument that he fastens again on that powerful symbol of the Eternal Evangel. This chapter looks at the influence of Joachimism and the Eternal Evangel on Pierre Leroux's writings and George Sand's novels.
Gould Warwick and Reeves Marjorie
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199242306
- eISBN:
- 9780191697081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199242306.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Theology
In Ernest Renan, one reaches a point where romantic faith is married to high scholarship. It would seem that the lively interest in medieval heretics as precursors of modern visionaries had itself ...
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In Ernest Renan, one reaches a point where romantic faith is married to high scholarship. It would seem that the lively interest in medieval heretics as precursors of modern visionaries had itself sparked off an impulse to scholarly research in this field. Renan has responded emotionally to the vision of George Sand's novel Spiridion and remained her devoted admirer. Renan's pioneer essay of modern scholarship was devoted to Joachim of Fiore, proof of his commitment to the study of Joachimism. Renan's view of history and the hope for the future which he drew from it, though founded on scholarship, were deeply influenced by a symbolic Joachimism which he may have caught partly from Jules Michelet, but in the first place, perhaps, from George Sand, on whom he pins his declaration of faith. This chapter examines the views of Ernest Renan, George Sand, and Matthew Arnold concerning religion, Christianity, Joachim of Fiore, and the Eternal Evangel.Less
In Ernest Renan, one reaches a point where romantic faith is married to high scholarship. It would seem that the lively interest in medieval heretics as precursors of modern visionaries had itself sparked off an impulse to scholarly research in this field. Renan has responded emotionally to the vision of George Sand's novel Spiridion and remained her devoted admirer. Renan's pioneer essay of modern scholarship was devoted to Joachim of Fiore, proof of his commitment to the study of Joachimism. Renan's view of history and the hope for the future which he drew from it, though founded on scholarship, were deeply influenced by a symbolic Joachimism which he may have caught partly from Jules Michelet, but in the first place, perhaps, from George Sand, on whom he pins his declaration of faith. This chapter examines the views of Ernest Renan, George Sand, and Matthew Arnold concerning religion, Christianity, Joachim of Fiore, and the Eternal Evangel.
Richard Bolster
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300082463
- eISBN:
- 9780300137682
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300082463.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805–76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the ...
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Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805–76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the penname Daniel Stern. She published fiction, articles on literature, music, art, and politics, and a history of the revolution of 1848, and she was an eloquent advocate for democracy, the eradication of poverty, and the emancipation of women. Drawing on her memoirs, letters, and other unpublished writings, this biography sets Marie d'Agoult's eventful life against a backdrop of dramatic political change in France. Courted by many important figures of her day, she married a nobleman and became a member of the court of Charles X. Her passion for music eventually brought her into contact with Liszt, with whom she moved to Italy and had three children. After their idealistic romance degenerated into disenchantment, d'Agoult returned to Paris, began her writing career, and established a salon for artists, reformers, and freethinkers. The book explains how George Sand became d'Agoult's friend and then betrayed her by giving Balzac information about her affair with Liszt, which he used in his novel Béatrix. The book concludes with a moving account of d'Agoult's last years.Less
Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d'Agoult (1805–76) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoning her privileged position in society, she eloped with her great love, the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the penname Daniel Stern. She published fiction, articles on literature, music, art, and politics, and a history of the revolution of 1848, and she was an eloquent advocate for democracy, the eradication of poverty, and the emancipation of women. Drawing on her memoirs, letters, and other unpublished writings, this biography sets Marie d'Agoult's eventful life against a backdrop of dramatic political change in France. Courted by many important figures of her day, she married a nobleman and became a member of the court of Charles X. Her passion for music eventually brought her into contact with Liszt, with whom she moved to Italy and had three children. After their idealistic romance degenerated into disenchantment, d'Agoult returned to Paris, began her writing career, and established a salon for artists, reformers, and freethinkers. The book explains how George Sand became d'Agoult's friend and then betrayed her by giving Balzac information about her affair with Liszt, which he used in his novel Béatrix. The book concludes with a moving account of d'Agoult's last years.
C. W. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199233540
- eISBN:
- 9780191730948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233540.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Unusual travelogues of the period are Staël's Dix annés d'exil, Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria, Sand's Lettres d'un voyageur and Un hiver à Majorque. All three women wrote provocatively with a ...
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Unusual travelogues of the period are Staël's Dix annés d'exil, Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria, Sand's Lettres d'un voyageur and Un hiver à Majorque. All three women wrote provocatively with a feeling of doing so from a position of difference and some oppression. Travel, even when thrust upon them, became for each an opportunity to escape constraints and censorship, to express resentments, and to change or give a new shape to the story of their lives. The three seized on the opportunity to write autobiographically, and each sought to give themselves a mythical dimension as the Exile, the Pariah, and the Traveller, so appropriate a metaphor did they feel that a journey was for romantic lives and heroines. Travel thus became central to their public image, and comparison brings out the attractions of the form, as well as the problems that it posed, for the best women writers.Less
Unusual travelogues of the period are Staël's Dix annés d'exil, Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria, Sand's Lettres d'un voyageur and Un hiver à Majorque. All three women wrote provocatively with a feeling of doing so from a position of difference and some oppression. Travel, even when thrust upon them, became for each an opportunity to escape constraints and censorship, to express resentments, and to change or give a new shape to the story of their lives. The three seized on the opportunity to write autobiographically, and each sought to give themselves a mythical dimension as the Exile, the Pariah, and the Traveller, so appropriate a metaphor did they feel that a journey was for romantic lives and heroines. Travel thus became central to their public image, and comparison brings out the attractions of the form, as well as the problems that it posed, for the best women writers.
Thomas W. Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780816699919
- eISBN:
- 9781452958903
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816699919.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
When the Hills Are Gone tells the story of Wisconsin’s sand mining wars. Providing on-the-ground accounts from both the mining industry and the concerned citizens who fought back, Thomas W. Pearson ...
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When the Hills Are Gone tells the story of Wisconsin’s sand mining wars. Providing on-the-ground accounts from both the mining industry and the concerned citizens who fought back, Thomas W. Pearson blends social theory, ethnography, stirring journalism, and his own passionate point of view to offer an essential chapter of Wisconsin’s history and an important episode in the national environmental movement.Less
When the Hills Are Gone tells the story of Wisconsin’s sand mining wars. Providing on-the-ground accounts from both the mining industry and the concerned citizens who fought back, Thomas W. Pearson blends social theory, ethnography, stirring journalism, and his own passionate point of view to offer an essential chapter of Wisconsin’s history and an important episode in the national environmental movement.
Colin Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469619958
- eISBN:
- 9781469619972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469619958.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This introductory chapter highlights the importance of outdoor recreation for people living in industrialized and urban cities during the early twentieth century in America. It mentions the Sand ...
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This introductory chapter highlights the importance of outdoor recreation for people living in industrialized and urban cities during the early twentieth century in America. It mentions the Sand Dunes National Park, a reserve located southeast of Chicago that featured massive wind-blown mounds of sand along the southern Lake Michigan shore. The park was formed from the demand of a signature wilderness park where people can interact with the nation’s frontier past. Additionally, the wilderness inspired artists and served as a vital laboratory for ecologists. The chapter describes how the park also had a different purpose—to serve the exploding immigrant and working-class population of Chicago. Contact with the dunes would restore and renew the tired industrial workers who toiled at monotonous jobs, serve as an alternative to unhealthy urban amusements, and Americanize the foreign born.Less
This introductory chapter highlights the importance of outdoor recreation for people living in industrialized and urban cities during the early twentieth century in America. It mentions the Sand Dunes National Park, a reserve located southeast of Chicago that featured massive wind-blown mounds of sand along the southern Lake Michigan shore. The park was formed from the demand of a signature wilderness park where people can interact with the nation’s frontier past. Additionally, the wilderness inspired artists and served as a vital laboratory for ecologists. The chapter describes how the park also had a different purpose—to serve the exploding immigrant and working-class population of Chicago. Contact with the dunes would restore and renew the tired industrial workers who toiled at monotonous jobs, serve as an alternative to unhealthy urban amusements, and Americanize the foreign born.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311017
- eISBN:
- 9781846313684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313684.006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter presents a list of the translations made by Jack Kahane. These include Princes of the Night by Joseph Kessell, and the Marcel Prevost titles The Virgin Man and Restless Sands. This ...
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This chapter presents a list of the translations made by Jack Kahane. These include Princes of the Night by Joseph Kessell, and the Marcel Prevost titles The Virgin Man and Restless Sands. This chapter provides information on the books' publication dates, title page, collation, binding, and cover image.Less
This chapter presents a list of the translations made by Jack Kahane. These include Princes of the Night by Joseph Kessell, and the Marcel Prevost titles The Virgin Man and Restless Sands. This chapter provides information on the books' publication dates, title page, collation, binding, and cover image.
Deborah Manley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774164859
- eISBN:
- 9781617971273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774164859.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Not all travelers ventured into the desert but for those who travel in these dry lands there was a different and often exciting experience.
Not all travelers ventured into the desert but for those who travel in these dry lands there was a different and often exciting experience.
