Charles Lamb, Roast Pork, and Willow Crockery

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-132
Author(s):  
Chris Murray
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Aesthetics ◽  
Charles Lamb ◽  
Lasting Influence

Charles Lamb’s work communicates both his frustrated wish to study classics and the Orientalist atmosphere of his employment at East India House. ‘A Dissertation upon Roast Pig’ envisions the discovery of cooking in China but—although it has correspondences with Thomas Manning’s travels—the source is Porphyry’s treatise on vegetarianism. ‘Old China’ is an ekphrastic treatment of an imaginary crockery set in the chinoiserie aesthetic, but the primary influence is Keats’s ‘Grecian Urn’. Lamb’s and Joanna Baillie’s responses to chinoiserie chart fluctuations in British opinion on China, and interrogate whether crockery was a gendered interest. Via Mark Lemon, Lamb’s writing on China has had lasting influence on narratives that arose about the Willow pattern popularized by Wedgwood and Spode. The Willow pattern imitated Chinese aesthetics, but the Willow narrative is Ovidian rather than Chinese.

Distant Correspondents: Charles Lamb, Exploration and the Writing of Letters

Romanticism ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Nield
Keyword(s):  
Charles Lamb

An early mainstream economist from Hungary: István Varga (1897–1962)

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Majoros
Keyword(s):  
Austrian Economic ◽  
National Income ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Economic Thinking ◽  
Lasting Influence

The study introduces a Hungarian economic thinker, István Varga*, whose valuable activity has remained unexplored up to now. He became an economic thinker during the 1920s, in a country that had not long before become independent of Austria. The role played by Austria in the modern economic thinking of that time was a form of competition with the thought adhered to by the UK and the USA. Hungarian economists mainly interpreted and commented on German and Austrian theories, reasons for this being that, for example, the majority of Hungarian economists had studied at German and Austrian universities, while at Hungarian universities principally German and Austrian economic theories were taught. István Varga was familiar not only with contemporary German economics but with the new ideas of Anglo-Saxon economics as well — and he introduced these ideas into Hungarian economic thinking. He lived and worked in turbulent times, and historians have only been able to appreciate his activity in a limited manner. The work of this excellent economist has all but been forgotten, although he was of international stature. After a brief summary of Varga’s profile the study will demonstrate the lasting influence he has had in four areas — namely, business cycle research and national income estimations, the 1946 Hungarian stabilisation program, corporate profit, and consumption economics — and will go on to summarise his most important achievements.

Ritual, Rejuvenation Practices, and the Experience of Aging in Early Chinese Religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ori Tavor
Keyword(s):  
Aging Process ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Chinese Religion ◽  
Human History ◽  
Early China ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Scientific Advances

Scientific advances in the field of biomedicine have fundamentally changed the ways in which we think about our bodies. Disease, aging, and even death, are no longer seen as inevitable realities but as obstacles that can be controlled, and in some cases even reversed, by technological means. The current discourse, however, can be enriched by an investigation of the various ways in which the aging process was perceived and explained throughout human history. In this article, I argue that in early China, the experience of aging and the challenges and anxieties it produced played a constitutive role in the shaping of religious culture. Drawing on a variety of medical, philosophical, and liturgical sources, I outline two models of aging: one that presented aging, and especially the loss of virility, as an undesirable but solvable condition that can be reversed with the aid of various rejuvenation techniques, and a more socially conscious model that depicted aging as a process of gradual social ascension, a natural but fundamentally unalterable condition that should be accepted, marked, and even celebrated through ritual. I conclude by demonstrating the legacy and lasting influence of these models on two of the most fundamental tenets of Chinese religion: the pursuit of longevity and the ideal of filial piety.

Charles Lamb, antiquaire

Littératures ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Félix Carrère
Keyword(s):  
Charles Lamb

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Lamb

Fuller’s books about England’s religious past helped to stimulate an outpouring of historical writing. Peter Heylyn wrote about some of the same subjects as Fuller, and so did Gilbert Burnet, Edward Stillingfleet, John Strype, and Jeremy Collier. Burnet, who looked for models for his history of the English Reformation, was sarcastic about Fuller, partly because of the latter’s “odd way of writing.” Fuller’s work was not highly regarded in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the nineteenth century Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge deeply admired him for his insights and praised him for his writing. Several nineteenth-century historians defended his work. His reputation has remained uncertain, despite fresh assessments in recent years. Coleridge was remarkably apt in his viewpoint. Fuller saw the broader significance of the events he described and was one of the most sensible scholars and writers of his time.

Authority by Aggregation and Abstraction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Lasting Influence

In addition to his views on ijtihād and tajdīd, al-Suyūṭī’s lasting influence in Islamic legal thought lies in the area of legal precepts (pithy maxims or questions that sum up areas of the law). Al-Suyūṭī’s al-Ashbāh wa-l-naẓāʾir stands as a core work in this genre of legal literature and is still a popular textbook for students at Egypt’s premier institution of religious learning, al-Azhar. Using the pragmatic theory of Grice and others, I argue that legal precepts fulfill a number of key discursive functions for the jurist. It is with al-Suyūṭī’s Ashbāh that he is most successful in asserting his authority as an aggregator, abstractor, and framer of the law. The power of framing lies in the ability to distill key universal principles from the vast corpus of Islamic substantive law and to assert that these principles represent the essence and spirit of the Sharīʿa.

scholarly journals How Covid-19 Changed The Future

ITNOW ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Naveen Madhavan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lasting Influence

Abstract Naveen Madhavan PhD MBCS, Senior Product Specialist (Pathology) at the NHS Wales Informatics Service, assesses how COVID-19 has changed our perceptions of the workplace and explores the likely lasting influence for the virus on digital transformation.

Charles Lamb and the Elizabethan Dramatists: A Reassessment

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Shokoff
Keyword(s):  
Charles Lamb
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