The Maamtrasna murders: language, life and death in nineteenth-century Ireland. By Margaret Kelleher. Pp 328. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2018. €20.

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (164) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Seán Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
University College

scholarly journals Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, 1884-1968

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 233-252 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Home Life ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London

Charles Lovatt Evans, Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of London, and a former Vice-President of the Royal Society, died on 29 August 1968, at the age of 84, at his home at Winterslow, near Salisbury. He was the foremost pupil and a lifelong associate of E. H. Starling, Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London, and eventually occupied the same chair. Lovatt Evans was born in Birmingham and spent the whole of his childhood and early manhood there. His father Charles Evans taught music— piano and violin—and was a man of many interests, of which ancient history was one, and he started to learn Greek when in his sixties. Although a humorist he had somewhat rigid views on religion, life and death, and held the view that the more you do for people the less they do for themselves, so Lovatt Evans was largely left to himself to decide upon his future and surmount the difficulties of finding ways and means. His mother seemed to him to be of rather an aloof nature, spending much of her time in intellectual pursuits often at the expense of her domestic duties. The result was that in his home life he was lonely.

The life and death of laboratory teaching of medical physiology: a personal narrative. Part I.

1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (6) ◽  
pp. S16 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
Laboratory Teaching ◽  
The University

Part I of this essay sketches the history of laboratory teaching of medical physiology in England from the perspective of the author as a student at Oxford from 1935 to 1938. The systematic laboratory teaching that began in the 1870s at University College London under William Sharpey was carried to Oxford, as well as to other English and Scottish universities, by Sharpey's junior colleagues. C. S. Sherrington added mammalian experiments, and C. G. Douglas and J. G. Priestley added experiments on human subjects. The author describes his experience as a student in the Oxford courses and tells how he learned physiology by teaching it from 1941 to 1943 in the laboratory course established at the University of Pennsylvania by Oxford-trained physiologist Cuthbert Bazett.

“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Statistical Graphics ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Black Life

Abstract Quantification has long played a vexed role in efforts to record and resist racial violence. Building from Ida B. Wells’s antilynching crusade, this essay examines the risks and power of calculating life and death at the close of the nineteenth century. For her part, Wells pushed mere counting past itself to a profound mode of ethical accounting. Two of her contemporaries, Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois, sustained a similarly supraquantitative thrust; each attempted to harness the antilynching potential of numbers by enlisting data visualization. Twain falls short in a telling fashion, as his unpublished satire “The United States of Lyncherdom” (written in 1901) exacerbates the dehumanizing tendencies of quantification. Du Bois, however, pursues a more generative experiment, creating statistical graphics in 1900 that indict and outstrip the causal circuit that yoked scientific numbering to lynching and racial violence more broadly. This latter achievement resonates with scholarly efforts to access Black life from within a desolately tabulated archive of loss and erasure. Specifically, as triangulated with Wells and Twain, Du Bois’s graphics proffer a counterintuitive means to register life as a future-oriented, aggregate abstraction that is neither wholly conditioned by, nor separate from, a past whose violent legacies endure.

Funeral Eulogy : Post-Mortem Figures and Redeemed Bodies, in Images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisella Farinotti
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Relationship

The essay explores the relationship between dead bodies, statues and photographs, individuating in the images not only a means for petrifying bodies, embalming them in time—as argued by Barthes, Debray and Dubois—but also a form of re-animation of the inanimate. A sort of living relic, the image is the frozen testimony of a fleeting vitality, a paradoxical form of ‘visible hiding’ in which life and death are intertwined. The essay demonstrates this process in some contemporary works, moving from The Hidden Mother (L. Fregni Nagler, 2013), a series of portraits of babies from the late nineteenth century. In these bodies of babies still alive, but in which lives their very same corpse, death is a phantom but also a tangible fear behind the photographic gesture.

The Life and Death of The Harmonicon: An Analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 137-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Langley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Average Lifespan ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Current

Between 1800 and 1845 some 30 periodicals devoted to music were launched in Britain, nearly all of them attributing their appearance to a current ‘general’, ‘wide’, ‘perfect’ or ‘increasing’ cultivation of the subject. But the real flurry of activity seems to have been in publishing rather than music. The average lifespan of a single musical journal in this period was only about two years and four months; most lasted a year or less and died from financial distress. From this record, one might question not only the state of genuine musical cultivation in early nineteenth-century England but also the rationale of editors, printers, publishers and proprietors who continued to produce for a marginal, certainly elusive, musical audience.

Chopin Dreams: The Mazurka in C# Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
Michael Klein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This article views Chopin's Mazurka in C# Minor, op. 30, no. 4, as akin to a dream that is open to analysis from a Lacanian perspective. After a discussion of Jacques Lacan's famous orders of subjectivity (the imaginary, the symbolic order, and the Real), the article turns to his idea that a symptom is a message from the Real that demands interpretation. As such, strange moments in Chopin's Mazurka are like symptoms that require multiple interpretations in order to approach their hidden and overlapping meanings. The article proceeds to view Chopin's Mazurka through nineteenth-century notions of Orientalism (alterity), nationalism (nostalgia), coming to life (the automaton), tuberculosis (the boundary of life and death), and the uncanny (fragmentation of the body/mind). But just as Lacan argued that we can never reach a final meaning for a symptom, the article concludes that there can be no transcendental signified for the various symptomatic moments in Chopin's Mazurka. In the end, the Mazurka becomes what Lacan calls a sinthome, a form of subjectivity that is made up of the very symptoms that the subject strives to understand.

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