scholarly journals The Clothing of a Regency Poet, Lord Byron (1788–1824)

Costume ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-239
Author(s):  
David Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Private Person ◽  
Companion Article ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Public Output

Byron was a best-selling poet and a celebrity with a notorious reputation. This article seeks to examine how his public image and private person were related, the part clothing played in the projection of his public image, and the degree of control he exerted over his body and his self-image. The article examines a number of sources relating to Lord Byron — his journals and letters, his poetry and public output, biographies, bills and accounts, paintings and illustrations, and the surviving clothing associated with the poet. From these a clothing narrative of the poet's early life, up until the time of his departure for Europe in 1816, can be constructed and examined in relation to the fashions of his era and the idiosyncrasies of the poet. Some of the surviving clothes are examined for their cut and construction and discussed in relation to others of the period. A companion article, dealing with his life abroad until the time of his death in 1824, will follow at a later date.

Effects of Public Image Concerns and Self-image on Compliance

1994 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Rind ◽  
Daniel Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Public Image ◽  
Self Image

scholarly journals Die beeld van verpleging - publieke, professionele en persoonlike implikasies

Curationis ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. De Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Media

Two aspects are involved in the image of the nursing profession - the public image and the self-image. The public image has been improving but is negatively influenced by the image presented in the media which does not usually reflect professionalism. The self-image held by the profession is even more important than the public image as this determines the profession’s influence in health services. The profession’s group image is determined by the self-image of individuals in the group. The self-image is influenced by external factors, such as support and encouragement by other nurses, and by internal factors such as the nurse regarding her work as a calling.

scholarly journals Editing and Noting: Vision and Revisions of Leigh Hunt's Literary Lives

2008 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ken A. Bugajski
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Literary Reputation ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Autobiographical Texts

Abstract This essay examines Leigh Hunt’s three major autobiographical texts: Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828), The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt (1850), and the second edition of the Autobiography (1860). From the earliest to the latest of these texts, Hunt transforms himself from the controversial author of The Story of Rimini and famous theatre critic to an editor of essay collections with a fading literary reputation. In both versions of the Autobiography, Hunt reuses and revises previously published passages, and these alterations highlight his changing self-image, especially his movement away from the literary spotlight.

Science and the Growth of the American Republic

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bernard Cohen
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Public Image ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
American Science ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Scientific Teaching ◽  
The Status ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Direction Of Movement ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Just a few years ago, it was estimated that 90 percent of all the scientists and engineers who had ever lived were still alive; and that more than half of them were resident in the United States. These numbers show the status of America as a major scientific nation, and the reason why this is a fact of critical importance for the historical analyst in 1976 is that only 40 years ago America could probably still be classed as an “undeveloped” (or “developing”) country on the highest scale of the international scientific community. Before addressing myself to the causes of this change and its consequences for American political and social thought and action, for the American conscience and for America's public image and self-image, let me indicate the kind of evidence that supports my assertion that America might be considered “underdeveloped” with respect to the sciences, prior to 1935. First of all, there was an almost wholly one-way direction of movement of graduate and postdoctoral students: eastward over the Atlantic to the great European centers of scientific teaching and research. Although there were some fields in which Americans had been making outstanding contributions, such as experimental and theoretical genetics, by and large the great overarching theories that either introduced order into one of the sciences, or brought diverse branches of science into an unexpected relationship, or revolutionized much of science, were produced by Europeans: Rutherford, the Curies, Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac. In 1963, in an address on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of our National Academy of Sciences, John F. Kennedy observed that of the 670 members of the Academy, 163 (or one out of every four) had been born in foreign lands—a figure that differed in order of magnitude from the condition in any other country, and that showed the degree to which the high estate that American science had gained was owing to the infusion of scientists from abroad.

Mortgaging One's Work to the World: Publication and the Structure of Montaigne's Essais

PMLA ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Lydgate
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Image ◽  
World Publication ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
The World ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

In seeking to distill into a public image a consciousness that changes over time, Montaigne faced moral and rhetorical dilemmas that confront all autobiographers. Unlike most literary self-portraitists, however, he gives evidence of having consciously tailored his project to the powers and limitations of his medium, the printed word. Montaigne's solution to the problem of imagining and addressing the reader reflects his perception of a new audience for printed books in the sixteenth century. Acknowledging that his public self-image has clarified and defined his private one, he reconciles the conflicting demands of a self in process and a book in print by making successive additions that temper the lapidary finality of the text. The deepest truth of Montaigne's claim to have written a book “consubstantial with its author” lies in the dynamic equilibration of past and current consciousness manifested both in the labile self and on the printed page.

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