Random Pandemic Perambulations: A Brief History of Literary Walks in the Age of Corona

Peter Arnds

doi:10.3366/ccs.2021.0402

Random Pandemic Perambulations: A Brief History of Literary Walks in the Age of Corona

Comparative Critical Studies ◽

10.3366/ccs.2021.0402 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (2-3) ◽

pp. 187-207

Author(s):

Peter Arnds

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

First Century ◽

History Of ◽

Oriented Movement ◽

Twenty First Century

This article focuses on the concept of randomness as the absence of goal-oriented movement in literary walks. The literature of walking displays the happenstance of adventure as one of the great antidotes to our inane, highly technologized, digitalized twenty-first-century lifestyle. In the end, however, such randomness may reveal itself as not so random after all, as the purpose of the journey, its inherent telos, discloses itself while travelling or in hindsight. This article provides brief glimpses into the history of literary walks to examine this tension between apparent randomness and the non-random. By drawing on a range of cultural theories and theorizations of travel and especially of walking, I look at literary foot travel in the nineteenth century, the Romantics and American Transcendentalists, some great adventure hikes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the urban and rural flâneur. In doing so the article does not lose sight of the question of how we can instrumentalize the literature of walking for life during the current pandemic.

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History of Recording Demotic Epigraphy

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.34 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 491-507

Author(s):

Jan Moje

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Seventh Century ◽

First Century ◽

Third Century ◽

Late Period ◽

Greco Roman ◽

Rosetta Stone ◽

Roman Egypt ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century

This chapter gives an overview of the history of recording and publishing epigraphic sources in Demotic language and script from the Late Period to Greco-Roman Egypt (seventh century bce to third century ce), for example, on stelae, offering tables, coffins, or votive gifts. The history of editing such texts and objects spans over two hundred years. Here, the important steps and pioneering publications on Demotic epigraphy are examined. They start from the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt found the Rosetta stone, until the twenty-first century.

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Marry Me?

Love, Inc. ◽

10.1525/california/9780520295018.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 83-112

Author(s):

Laurie Essig

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

First Century ◽

Financial Resources ◽

The Real ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Real Change ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Diamond Ring

Getting engaged now requires more emotional and financial resources than ever before. Here Essig traces the history of engagements from the birth of companionate marriages in the nineteenth century to the invention of rituals like the bended knee and fetish items like the diamond ring in the early twentieth century. But the real change happened at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as engagements became “spectacular,” requiring not just highly staged events but also highly produced videos and images that could then be disseminated to the larger world.

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The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: from nineteenth century paper to twenty first century data

Circumscribere International Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.23925/1980-7651.2018v21;p63-70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 63

Author(s):

Gavan McCarthy

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

History Of Science ◽

First Century ◽

Research Activity ◽

Digital Scholarship ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Correspondence Project

This paper presents a case study that demonstrates how a long term research activity, with the intention to create a scholarly edition of scientific correspondence, can be liberated from its print paradigm strictures to join the twenty first century world of interconnected knowledge. The Von Mueller Correspondence Project has produced a corpus of over 15,600 digitally transcribed letters and related materials focused on the period 1840 to 1896. These are complemented by materials in a range of forms that refer to Mueller dating from 1814 to 1931. Mueller was a prolific correspondent and established links with hundreds of fellow botanists and biologists across the globe; most of these, and certainly the most notable, will be registered in the History of Science Society Isis Cumulative Bibliography as Authority Records with links to publications about them and is some cases publications by them. The long-term plan is to systemically interlink the Von Mueller Correspondence Project digital corpus and the Isis Cumulative Bibliography and develop the synergies that will drive digital humanities analysis and future scholarly endeavour. That is the vision but what is the reality? At what stage is the project now? How did it get this far? What steps remain? How does the story of this project help us better understand the imperatives of digital scholarship – its strengths and its challenges?

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The rise and fall of dietetics and of nutrition science, 4000 BCE–2000 CE

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1079/phn2005766 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 8 (6a) ◽

pp. 701-705 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Geoffrey Cannon

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

First Century ◽

Second Phase ◽

Nutrition Science ◽

Third Phase ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century

AbstractObjectiveTo outline the history of dietetics since its beginnings in recorded history, and of nutrition science in its first phase beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and then its second phase in the second half of the twentieth century.MethodThree narrative overviews: of dietetics from its beginnings until after the end of the mediaeval and then Renaissance periods in Europe; of nutrition science in its first phase from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, with reasons for its rise; and of nutrition science in its second phase in the second half of the twentieth century, with reasons for its decline.ConclusionsIn its third phase in the twenty-first century, the new nutrition science should regain much of the vision and scope of its preceding disciplines.

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The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its cultural uses

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s0007087412000118 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

STEVEN SHAPIN

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Ivory Tower ◽

Historical Survey ◽

Modern History ◽

Academic Setting ◽

Figure Of Speech ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century

AbstractThis is a historical survey of how and why the notion of the Ivory Tower became part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural vocabularies. It very briefly tracks the origins of the tag in antiquity, documents its nineteenth-century resurgence in literary and aesthetic culture, and more carefully assesses the political and intellectual circumstances, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, in which it became a common phrase attached to universities and to features of science and in which it became a way of criticizing practices and institutions deemed to be ‘irrelevant’. The paper concludes by reflecting on the tag's relationship to pervasive cultural tropes and how its modern history may be used to appreciate better where science and its academic setting now stand in the ancient debate between the active and contemplative lives.

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The thoughts’ evolution on woman in Spain since the late Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century: Romanticism, labour market, violence and equality

Revista Pensamiento Americano ◽

10.21803/penamer.9.16.342 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (16) ◽

pp. 121-142

Author(s):

Francisco Pérez Fernández

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Labour Market ◽

First Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Twenty First Century

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Rethinking Mahler

10.1093/oso/9780199316090.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Structural Analysis ◽

First Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Temporal Experience ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Literature History ◽

Historical Past

Gustav Mahler’s anniversary years (2010–11) have provided an opportunity to rethink the composer’s position within the musical, cultural and multi-disciplinary landscapes of the twenty-first century, as well as to reassess his relationship with the historical traditions of his own time. Comprising a collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field, Rethinking Mahler in part counterbalances common scholarly assumptions and preferences which predominantly configure Mahler as proto-modernist, with hitherto somewhat neglected consideration of his debt to, and his re-imagining of, the legacies of his own historical past. It reassesses his engagement both with the immediate creative and cultural present of the late nineteenth century, and with the weight of a creative and cultural past that was the inheritance of artists living and working at that time. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives the contributors pursue ideas of nostalgia, historicism and ‘pastness’ in relation to an emergent pluralist modernity and subsequent musical-cultural developments. Mahler’s relationship with music, media and ideas past, present, and future is explored in three themed sections, addressing among them issues in structural analysis; cultural contexts; aesthetics; reception; performance, genres of stage, screen and literature; history/historiography; and temporal experience.

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American Custom, Ritual, and Holidays

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190840617.013.12 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 255-276

Author(s):

Jack Santino

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Life Course ◽

First Century ◽

The Political ◽

Public Events ◽

Close Study ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Life Course ◽

Comprehensive Study

Since the nineteenth century, attention in folklore and folklife studies has shifted from viewing certain customary symbolic actions such as “calendar customs” and rituals of the life course to a more inclusive performance-oriented perspective on holidays and customs. Folklorists recognize the multiplicity of events that people may consider ritual and festival, and the porous nature of these categories. The concept of the “sacred” has expanded to include realms other than the strictly religious, so as to include the political and other domains, both official and unofficial. A comprehensive study of ritual and festival incorporates a close study of folk and popular actions as well as institutional ceremony. In the twenty-first century, approaching events as both carnivalesque and ritualesque allows folklorists to describe purpose and intention in public events, and to account for political, commemorative, celebratory, and festive elements in any particular event.

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