David and Bathsheba in Children’s Bibles and Adult Novels

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
David M. Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Main Body ◽  
American Life ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Popular Writing

The chapter traces the story of David and Bathsheba in two forms of popular writing: children’s Bibles and Bible-based novels for adults. An account of the ubiquity of children’s Bibles in American life since the mid-nineteenth century is followed by brief surveys of recent scholarship on both the children’s and adults’ genres. The main body of the work traces changing ways this story of sex and murder has been presented to children while preserving a favorable view of David and the shifting treatments by novelists, leading toward both romance and sardonic irreverence, with Bathsheba emerging as a subject in her own right especially since the 1980s.

‘Each Song Was Just Like a Little Sermon’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Land
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Military Training ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter is central to the volume’s chronological contentions, as its argument accounts for the specialized, one-dimensional Dibdin of ‘Tom Bowling’ that has endured into recent scholarship. Focusing on Dibdin’s posthumous reception, it examines the moral and rhetorical difficulties of repackaging Dibdin’s works for a Victorian sensibility; it explores the specifics of mid-century concert culture previously highlighted by Derek Scott and William Weber as central to changes in nineteenth-century taste and programming; and it develops the theme of nostalgia into a revelatory consideration of the relationship between new naval technologies, national pride, and military training, and the songs, people, and language of a remembered Napoleonic ‘golden age’—to which Dibdin proves to have been as central, in the Victorian imagination, as Nelson.

Resurrection

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.

Divorce in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1863-1880

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
William H. Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
American Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth

THE historical study of divorce practice has only recent begun and has not yet addressed the increasing frequency of divorce Using Worcester County, Massachusetts as a test case, this article examines the late nineteenth century when, while divorce was still rare, the increase was beginning. Through analysis of the socioeconomic characteristics of those obtaining divorces, this article presents a preliminary hypothesis that explains the increasing frequency of divorce in terms of basic changes of American life, particularly the increased economic independence of women brought about by industrialization.

The Dream Machine

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Bell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intellectual Foundations

This chapter opens with a discussion of the mutable vocabulary of empire and liberalism, before analyzing some of the most important recent scholarship on the subject. It argues that two main weaknesses run through scholarly commentary on liberalism and empire: a tendency to overlook the significance of settler colonialism and an over-reliance on canonical interpretations of liberalism. Settler colonialism played a crucial role in nineteenth-century imperial thought, and liberalism in particular, yet it has largely been ignored in the burst of writing about the intellectual foundations of the Victorian empire. Utilizing canonical interpretations of liberalism, meanwhile, has generated some skewed claims about the historical connections between liberal political thought and empire.

Jean Paulmier, Gonneville and Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of a Myth

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
MARGARET SANKEY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of

The first mention of Gonneville’s land occurs in Abbé Jean Paulmier’s Mémoires of 1664 petitioning the Pope to approve a Christian mission to the as yet undiscovered Terres australes. Central to Paulmier’s argument was the extract from a document purporting to be the travel account of a sixteenth-century navigator, Gonneville. The extract details how the unknown land was discovered after the navigator’s ship L’Espoir had lost its way and landed in the fabled Terres australes, south-east of the Cape of Good Hope. His utopian account of the unknown land played an important role in French voyages of discovery during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After Cook’s refutation of the existence of a Great South Land, Gonneville’s land was identified in the nineteenth century as being in Brazil. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed that Gonneville and his story were probably invented by Paulmier. This article examines how and why the Gonneville story became part of the history of French exploration, then details the elements which led to its being discredited.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Darin Stephanov
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman

The introduction provides a brief overview of the book’s main questions and goals against the backdrop of recent scholarship on group identities and communal boundaries. This book proposes a more systematic and comprehensive approach to the topic in the context of the late Ottoman Empire, based on terminological innovation and a three-tiered theorization of average personal attachments. By adopting the meta concept of ruler (in)visibility, it connects the ruler to the ruled and suggests that the former had no viable competitor for popular loyalties over most of the nineteenth century. It then identifies the annual all-imperial ruler celebrations, a global mass-scale nineteenth-century phenomenon, as an under-researched and extremely promising area of focus in the study of the moorings of contemporary popular belonging. Finally, the introduction discusses methods and sources, and provides a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the book.

‘Stirring and advancing times’: Landlords, Agents and Improvement on the Castle Howard Estate, 1826–66

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
David Gent
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Condition

This essay explores the career of John Henderson, land agent to the Earls of Carlisle at their Castle Howard estate in Yorkshire between 1827 and the late 1860s. In recent scholarship, historians have increasingly begun to appreciate the importance of land agents in nineteenth-century rural life. It is now evident that agents, as intermediaries between landowners, their tenants and the wider local population, were deeply involved in the social relationships of rural communities. Making use of the voluminous and well-preserved estate records, the essay complements such studies by emphasising the multi-faceted nature of Henderson’s role in the Castle Howard district. It will particularly focus on Henderson’s role as a facilitator of social, economic and technical change. Under the active encouragement of the 7th Earl of Carlisle, a noted liberal politician and reformer, Henderson not only introduced a range of agricultural improvements to the estate, but also a large number of projects aimed at improving the social, economic and moral condition of its population. In doing so, the essay shows that landed estates - and land agents - may have played no less an important part than urban areas in the Victorian culture of 'progress': in participating in what the 7th Earl described as 'stirring and advancing times'.

Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France: Nancy Macdonald’s Musical Upbringing

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Women And Music ◽  
French Student ◽  
Musical Activities

Abstract This microhistory situates the musical activities of Nancy Macdonald, a French student at Madame Campan’s National Institute for Young Women and Napoleon Bonaparte’s school for daughters of Legion of Honour Recipients, in broader discourses about women and music in Napoleonic France. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of capital, it eschews a simplistic assessment of music as either constraining or liberating young women, by arguing instead that performance operated as a kind of ‘feminine capital’, accrued and then circulated to achieve tangible socio-economic ends. A feminine-capital framework exposes the paradoxes inherent in female music-making and reveals how values about music were enculturated from girlhood to womanhood in France. This approach contributes to recent scholarship that challenges the rigid binaries previously defining women’s musical labour during the Classical era and inserts France into historiographies of women’s musical practices in the early nineteenth century.

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