scholarly journals A New Public Nature: Parks, Plants, and Periodicals In The Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sardella
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Failure ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Nature Parks ◽  
The Many ◽  
Botanical Magazine

In 1798, William Curtis published the sixth and last volume of Flora Londinensis, a beautifully coloured catalogue of over 400 plants that grew in London and in its nearby fields. Less than 300 copies were sold, and while the book was considered scientifically important, it was a financial failure (Field 106). Firstly, Flora Londinensis was prohibitively expensive because of its coloured plates, and secondly, the many illustrations of wild grasses and common plants included in the book failed to interest an audience outside of a small group of medical doctors and aristocratic hobby-botanists. The project, however, was not a complete failure for Curtis. While publishing Flora Londinensis, Curtis launched a considerably more successful, similarly formatted periodical for a slightly broader audience called Botanical Magazine. Botanical Magazine featured coloured plates of newly discovered exotic plants that satisfied the tastes of the public. It was published in thin issues containing only three plates each, and at a price of one shilling per monthly issue, Botanical Magazine was affordable enough for more readers to justify paying for the magazine’s exciting, colourfully illustrated content.

scholarly journals A New Public Nature: Parks, Plants, and Periodicals In The Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sardella
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Failure ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Nature Parks ◽  
The Many ◽  
Botanical Magazine

In 1798, William Curtis published the sixth and last volume of Flora Londinensis, a beautifully coloured catalogue of over 400 plants that grew in London and in its nearby fields. Less than 300 copies were sold, and while the book was considered scientifically important, it was a financial failure (Field 106). Firstly, Flora Londinensis was prohibitively expensive because of its coloured plates, and secondly, the many illustrations of wild grasses and common plants included in the book failed to interest an audience outside of a small group of medical doctors and aristocratic hobby-botanists. The project, however, was not a complete failure for Curtis. While publishing Flora Londinensis, Curtis launched a considerably more successful, similarly formatted periodical for a slightly broader audience called Botanical Magazine. Botanical Magazine featured coloured plates of newly discovered exotic plants that satisfied the tastes of the public. It was published in thin issues containing only three plates each, and at a price of one shilling per monthly issue, Botanical Magazine was affordable enough for more readers to justify paying for the magazine’s exciting, colourfully illustrated content.

Four-Hand Piano Transcription and Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Musical Reception

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Orchestral Works ◽  
Piano Transcriptions ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many ◽  
Musical Reception

Throughout the nineteenth century, massive quantities of four-hand piano transcriptions were published of virtually every musical genre. Indeed, no other medium before the advent of the radio and phonograph was arguably so important for the dissemination and iterability of concert and chamber repertories. Yet such transcriptions proved to be anything but innocent vehicles of translation. Not only did these four-hand arrangements offer simplified facsimiles of most orchestral works blanched of their instrumental timbres (a result that was often compared to the many reproductive engravings and black-and-white lithographs of artworks that were churned out by publishers at the same time); such arrangements also destabilized traditional musical divisions between symphonic and chamber genres, professional and amateur music cultures, and even repertories gendered as masculine and feminine. By bringing music intended for the public sphere of the concert hall, opera house, and salon into the domestic space of the bourgeois home parlor, the four-hand transcription profoundly altered the generic identity and consequent reception of musical works.

I'm Not Watching I'm Waiting: the Construction of Visual Codes about Womens' Role as Spectators in the Trial in Nineteenth Century England

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Mulcahy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Productive Labour ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many

AbstractAccounts of the interface between law, gender and modernity have tended to stress the many ways in which women experienced the metropolis differently from men in the nineteenth century. Considerable attention has been paid to the notion of separate spheres and to the ways in which the public realm came to be closely associated with the masculine worlds of productive labour, politics, law and public service. Much art of the period draws our attention to the symbiotic relationship between representations of gender and prevailing notions of their place. Drawing on well known depictions of women onlookers in the trial in fine art, this essay by Linda Mulcahy explores the ways in which this genre contributed to the disciplining of women in the public sphere and encouraged them to go no further than the margins of the law court.

“A Swarm of Laughter!” On Kierkegaard’s Conception of Enthusiasm and Its Comedic Remedy, an Enlightenment Inheritance

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Seabourn Webb
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many

AbstractToday the term “enthusiasm” signifies little more than innocuous excitement. During the Enlightenment, however, the term was abuzz with pejorative innuendos of sub-humanity, the many nuances of which were debated in the public sphere. Its significance was more sting than substance, however, and by the middle of the nineteenth century Kierkegaard could complain that the category of enthusiasm had become hopelessly unclear. Despite this, based on The Book on Adler and on three texts in which Kierkegaard uses Socrates as a prototype of enthusiasm, I argue that Kierkegaard’s concept of enthusiasm places him in the lineage of earlier Enlightenment writers, such as Lessing, Shaftesbury, and Kant, whose conceptions and critiques of enthusiasm Kierkegaard was familiar with. By putting Kierkegaard’s use of the comic in The Book on Adler into conversation with Shaftesbury’s and Kant’s comedic remedies for enthusiasm, the extent to which Kierkegaard is an inheritor of and detractor from this tradition becomes evident

Jain Identity and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century India

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-137
Author(s):  
John E. Cort
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arya Samaj

The author focuses on the creation of a new sense of religious identity across Indian religions over the nineteenth century, analysing in particular the process in which a pan-Indian concept of being ‘Jain’ developed. The chapter discusses two conflictual cases that turned around whether or not it is proper for Jains to worship icons of the Jinas. The cases involved Ḍhuṇḍhiyā or Sthānakvāsī and Mūrtipūjak Jains, critiques and proponents of icon worship, and, in the case of the second dispute, also the founder of the Arya Samaj, Dayanand Saraswati. Whereas in the 1820s, identity was primarily defined by caste, sixty years later the common identity was that of shared religious belonging. Demonstrating the role of the new public sphere, the author argues that two colonialism-driven projects came together here, the introduction of the British legal system, and the introduction of new technologies of travel, communication, and dissemination of information.

PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI

Nuncius ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-211
Author(s):  
MARIO DE GREGORIO
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The inventory of Giorgio Santi's correspondance preserved in the Public Library of Siena shows the many relations of this tuscan chemist, botanist and naturalist, from 1776 to 1822. He grew in France in close contact with the new theories put forward by Buffon and Lavoisier. He was Professor at the University of Pisa and since 1782 director of the botanical gardens of this town. Santi is one of the most interesting italian scientific personalities between eighteenth and nineteenth century, an important representative of that Tuscan group that worked towards the achievement of the great program of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, and then persued the goal under the new French administration.

scholarly journals Myths of the medical methods exclusion: medicine and patents in nineteenth century Britain

Legal Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-626
Author(s):  
Robert Burrell ◽  
Catherine Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Financial Reward ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Property System ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper explores the interaction of British medical practitioners with the nascent intellectual property system in the nineteenth century. It challenges the generally accepted view that throughout the nineteenth century there was a settled or professionally agreed hostility to patenting. It demonstrates that medical practitioners made more substantial use of the patent system and related forms of protection than has previously been recognised. Nevertheless, the rate of patenting remained lower than in other fields of technical endeavour, but this can largely be explained by the public nature of medical practice during this period. This paper therefore seeks to retell the history of the exclusion of medical methods from patent protection, an exclusion whose history has produced a substantial body of scholarship. However, its aims go beyond this in that it also seeks to illuminate how medical practitioners engaged with the broader political and policy landscape in order to secure financial remuneration for their inventions. Through an exploration of how prominent doctors interacted with Parliament around claims for a financial reward, it demonstrates that doctors sought to use reputational advantage to leverage financial success and the important role that Parliament could play in that process.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 232-242
Author(s):  
Jan-Melissa Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dramatic Form ◽  
Dramatic Writing ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This chapter suggests that all the works discussed in this study—both canonical and minor, composed in verse or in prose—ask profound questions about the nature of the tragic mode and its relation to Christian thought. The nineteenth-century dramatic imagination is deeply political, staging memorable protests against the rhetoric of utilitarianism in political economy, Calvinism in religion, and the unjustifiable sacrifice of the one for the welfare of the many in ethics and anthropology. In contradistinction to the many studies which sideline dramatic writing in the long nineteenth century, this chapter concludes that dramatic form retains its value in this period as a significant vehicle for comment upon far-reaching questions of justice and ethics. Ultimately, theology raised too many important questions to be permanently excluded from the public stage—and the theatre was too valuable a forum to ignore religious experience.

The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities, Second Edition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Fairgrieve ◽  
Dan Squires QC
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authoritative Text ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many

Whether, and in what circumstances, public authorities should be held liable for negligence in the performance of their public functions is a highly complex area of the law. Written by Cherie Blair and Dan Squires QC, the first edition of The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities provided a much needed guide to these complexities and offered a detailed account of the law for practitioners and academics. This second edition builds on the reputation of the first, including full coverage of the many important cases which have been decided since 2006. Divided into two parts, Part I focuses on the extent to which the public nature of a defendant affects civil liability and the principles that govern and limit that liability. Part II considers the law as it impacts upon specific areas of public authorities' activities. It examines cases in a range of key areas, including the police, social services, highways, education, and the emergency services and aims to set out in a comprehensive way the different legal issues that have arisen in each area. By examining cases in a variety of jurisdictions, including Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the USA, the authors further broaden the scope of this authoritative text. The book also identifies the underlying principles and policy arguments which have shaped the law more generally, making it an extremely useful resource for a wide variety of practitioners.

Wives on “Deposit”: Internment and the Preservation of Husbands' Honor in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Link ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Male Authority

In nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, “institutions of deposit” were often used instead of jails to house women who were in trouble with their husbands and the authorities, and therefore had to be interred while awaiting trial or for other reasons. The public nature of these institutions was seen as crucial for the shaming of women and for the development in them of a sense of repentance and reform. They can thus be interpreted as an important link in a chain of formal institutions and informal pressures that enforced male authority.

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