The Railway Controversy in Wordsworth’s Lake District

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Saeko Yoshikawa
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Explosive Mixture ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Railway Construction ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Subject

Chapter 2 explores how Wordsworth’s anti-railway arguments were variously redeployed by the Victorian conservationists, such as John Ruskin, Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley, and Gordon Wordsworth, all of whom campaigned against multiple railway projects in the Lake District. As the railway proposals became the subject of nationwide discussion, the question arose as to whose property the Lake District was, and who could claim a right to decide what to do with it: ‘stakeholders’ included local residents, farmers, aesthetic elites, and working-class tourists. Opponents of railways argued that the area’s aesthetic and literary value, and its Wordsworthian associations, were of national interest and also vital to local economic growth. Railway construction was thus debated, even by the anti-railway lobby, in terms of economics rather than what would now be termed environmental concerns. This chapter reveals how the railway controversy was an explosive mixture of aesthetics and class-struggle, democracy and populism, tourism and industrialization, commercialism, local economy and national heritage, and, lastly, an emergent environmental consciousness.

Drawing as a Creative Approach to Researching Extant Garments: A Case Study Involving John Ruskin's Clothing

Costume ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-221
Author(s):  
Ingrid Mida ◽  
Sarah Casey
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Dress History ◽  
Absent Presence

Reading the clues embedded in extant clothing demands both imagination and patience since the subtle marks of wear, use and alteration may only become evident with extended observation and reflection. During the course of a project undertaken in conjunction with the bicentenary celebrations of John Ruskin's birth culminating in the exhibition of Sarah Casey's drawings in Ruskin's Good Looking! (8 February–7 April 2019), the authors studied the garments of John Ruskin at Brantwood, his former home in the Lake District. The life-sized drawings of these garments produced by Casey mapped the absent presence of the former wearer, allowed visitors the opportunity to better see and reflect on Ruskin's clothing, and also revealed the hidden histories of Ruskin's garments. Drawing, the making of marks with meaning, is not an obvious research tool in dress history and curatorial practice but, as this case study shows, can expose subtle details and reveal new insights.

scholarly journals Introduction

Ramus ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
A.J. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Adequate Description ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ars Amatoria

oratio certam regulam non habet; consuetudo illam ciuitatis, quae numquam in eodem diu stetit, uersat.Style has no fixed rules; the usage of society changes it, which never stays still for long.Seneca Epistle 114.13This is the first of two volumes of critical essays on Latin literature of the imperial period from Ovid to late antiquity. The focus is upon the main postclassical period (A.D. 1-150), especially the authors of the Neronian and Flavian principates (A.D. 54-96), several of whom, though recently the subject of substantial investigation and reassessment, remain largely unread, at best improperly understood. The change which took place in Roman literature between the late republic/early Augustan period and the post-Augustan empire, between the ‘classicism’ of Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy and the ‘postclassicism’ of Seneca, Lucan, Persius, Tacitus is conventionally misdescribed (albeit sometimes with qualifications) as the movement from Golden to Silver Latin. The description misleads on many counts, not least because it misconstrues a change in literary and poetic sensibility, in the mental sets of reader and audience, and in the political environment of writing itself, as a change in literary value. What in fact happened awaits adequate description, but it seems clear that the change began with Ovid (43 B.C. to A.D. 17), whose rejection of Augustan classicism (especially its concept of decorum or ‘appropriateness’), cultivation of generic disorder and experimentation (witness, e.g., Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses), love of paradox, absurdity, incongruity, hyperbole, wit, and focus on extreme emotional states, influenced everything that followed. Ovid also witnessed and suffered from the increasing political repression of the principate; he was banished for — among other things — his words, carmen. And political repression seems to have been a signal factor, if difficult to evaluate, in the formation of the postclassical style.

II.—The Magnesian Limestone and New Red Sandstone in the Neighbourhood of Nottingham

1877 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
W. T. Aveline
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Made In

Since the Government Geological Survey of the country around Nottingham was made in the year 1859, and the Explanation on the Geological Map Quarter-sheet 71 N.E. was written in 1861, papers by local geologists have been written, stating that in the neighbourhood of Nottingham a perfect conformity existed between the Magnesian Limestone and the New Red Sandstone. This being totally at variance with conclusions I came to when I surveyed that country, I have been for some time past desirous to say a word on the subject, but being deeply occupied with the old rocks of the Lake district, I have put it off from time to time. I felt little doubt in my mind, when surveying the neighbourhood of Nottingham, that there was a considerable break between the Magnesian Limestone and the New Red Sandstone, and this opinion was completely confirmed as I continued my survey northwards through Nottinghamshire into Yorkshire.

scholarly journals MARXISMO, SUJEITO E SUBJETIVIDADE. NEGRI DIANTE DO ANTI-HUMANISMO ALTHUSSERIANO

Sapere Aude ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 250-273
Author(s):  
Émerson Pirola
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Antonio Negri

Um debate de longa data no interior do marxismo é o entre perspectivas que tenderiam para uma leitura da obra marxiana centrada nas análises sobre a constituição de sujeitos políticos de e em luta, na constituição de uma classe social revolucionária que enfrente a exploração capitalista, e perspectivas centradas nas transformações do capitalismo ou nas dinâmicas estruturais da economia. Podemos dizer, esquematicamente, que as primeiras perspectivas são “subjetivistas” e as segundas “objetivistas”. Nos anos 1960 esse debate se viu determinado pela chamada polêmica do anti-humanismo, lançada por Louis Althusser contra o marxismo por ele criticado como humanista, visto que advogaria por uma noção de Sujeito idealista e abstrata, descolada dos processos estruturais da economia política capitalista. Antonio Negri, por sua vez, deu e dá grande importância para a noção de subjetividade na análise crítica e enfrentamento do capitalismo. Negri, entretanto, não ignora as críticas efetuadas por Althusser ao chamado humanismo, tomando-as como pré-requisito para o desenvolvimento original de sua teoria. Mostramos, portanto, como Althusser desenvolve suas críticas do Sujeito e do humanismo para então desenvolver as posições de Negri diante destas, a construção de sua própria teoria da subjetividade, resgatada do Marx dos Grundrisse, e apontar as limitações do pensamento althusseriano no que concerne à subjetividade.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Sujeito. Anti-humanismo. Subjetividade. Negri. Althusser. ABSTRACTA long-standing debate within Marxism is the one between perspectives that would tend towards a reading of the Marxian work centered on analyzes of the constitution of political subjects in and in class struggle, the constitution of a revolutionary social class facing capitalist exploitation, and perspectives centered on the transformations of capitalism or the structural dynamics of the economy in general. We can say, schematically, that the first perspective are "subjectivist" and the second one "objectivist". In the 1960s this debate was determined by Louis Althusser's so-called polemic of anti-humanism, in which he criticized certain Marxism as an humanism, since it would advocate for an idealist and abstract notion of subject detached from the structural processes of capitalist political economy. Antonio Negri, in turn, gave and gives great importance to the notion of subjectivity in the dynamics and confrontation of capitalism. Negri, however, does not ignore the criticisms made by Althusser of the humanism, taking them as a prerequisite for the original development of his theory. We thus show how Althusser develops his criticisms of the Subject and humanism to develop Negri's positions for and against them, the construction of his own theory of subjectivity, rescued from Marx’s Grundrisse, and we point out the limitations of Althusser's thought as regards subjectivity.KEYWORDS: Subject. Antihumanism. Subjeticvity. Negri. Althusser.

Overview

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gothic Revival ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Medieval Archaeology ◽  
The Impact

This overview traces early engagements with the medieval past in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the impact of the Landscape Movement in gardens, Romanticism in poetry and fiction, the Picturesque in painting, and particularly the Gothic Revival in architecture. It discusses the seeds of later medieval archaeology in the twentieth century, framed by war and new ideals of a common national heritage, and picks out the influential people, projects, and institutions that have shaped the subject.

Cambridge in a Regional and National Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-316
Author(s):  
Catherine Casson ◽  
Mark Casson ◽  
John S. Lee ◽  
Katie Phillips
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Local Region ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
National Context ◽  
New Information ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
The Subject

Chapter 6 examines Cambridge’s performance at a regional and national level. Cambridge’s position relative to other leading towns nearby, such as Ely, Bury St Edmunds, King’s Lynn, Huntingdon and St Ives, is examined. The competitiveness of its market is evaluated through assessment of its transport connections and the local charters for market and fairs in the Cambridge area. Once again new information is brought to bear on the subject; in this case the account rolls of the Merton manor in Cambridge, previously owned by the Dunning family and subsequently acquired by Walter de Merton for the endowment of Merton College, Oxford. The chapter demonstrates the dominance of Cambridge market in the local economy. The strength of this market, combined with the town’s control of the export-oriented river trade, assured its leading position in local trade and contributed to attracting investors from the local region and beyond.

The Process of Collectivization Approached in Romanian Propagandistic Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loredana Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Previous Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behavior

The article analyses one of the most representative propagandistic literary productions that approached the subject of collectivization in Romania, that is the short story entitled The Unfolding written by Marin Preda. The subject brought into attention cannot be discussed without a previous review over the social and political context in the communism, propaganda, situation of peasantry and new ideological patterns that marked people mentality and behavior, class struggle, Party doctrine and all the actions that changed completely the picture of the Romanian society.

scholarly journals Logística urbana e planejamento territorial: uma abordagem política

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (56) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Fander De Oliveira Silva ◽  
William Rodrigues-Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Business Perspective ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cargo Transportation ◽  
The City

A globalização aprofundou suas estratégias capazes de fomentar a competição global e de definir os agentes hegemónicos dessa corrida, que de um lado estão grandes corporações em concorrência e de outro os trabalhadores em uma luta de classes, sendo os atributos expressos a esse globaritarismo os responsáveis pelo (re) ordenamento do território, impactando na política, economia e cultura da sociedade. Portanto, a problemática apresentada tem servido como referência para a importância de analisar o conceito de logística sob o olhar geográfico e empresarial, compreendendo asua atuação e limitações a partir de procedimentos metodológicos que abrange desde levantamento bibliográfico sobre a temática até o mapeamento das condições atuais do sistema de transportes de cargas na cidade.ABSTRACT Globalization has deepened its strategies to foster global competition and to set its hegemonic agents having, on one side, large corporations in competition and, on the other side, workers on a class struggle, where the attributes in this globalization process are the ones responsible for spatial planning of cities, thus impacting politics, economy, and culture of the society. Therefore, the problems stated have served as a significant reference to analyze the concept of logistics from a geographic and business perspective by understanding their role and limitations from methodological procedures that range from literature on the subject to the mapping of current conditions of the cargo transportation system in the city.

Genetic impact assessments – summary of a debate

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 101-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Pilling
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Animal Genetic Resources ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Animal Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
Genetic Impact ◽  
Government Interference ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Practical Constraints

SummarySome countries have introduced a requirement for genetic impact assessments prior to granting permission for the import of new exotic livestock breeds. However, the merits of such a system are not universally accepted. During February 2007 a discussion on the subject took place on FAO's Domestic Animal Diversity Network (DAD-Net) electronic forum. This paper presents a description of how the discussion developed, and a summary of the issues raised. Arguments both for and against requiring impact assessments were put forward. Those opposing such measures focused on the risks of limiting access to animal genetic resources (AnGR), and questioned the benefits of government interference. Practical constraints to implementation and enforcement were also noted. Counter arguments pointed to the potential for avoiding the loss of valuable AnGR, and stressed governments' responsibilities to intervene where necessary to promote sustainable development, to defend the interests of the poor, or to protect national heritage. The debate ranged more widely — encompassing the respective roles of local and exotic AnGR in different regions of the world and in different production systems.

scholarly journals Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part II. — The explosion of hydrogen-air and carbon monoxide-air mixtures

1921 ◽  
Vol 100 (702) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Maximum Pressure ◽  
Chemical Affinity ◽  
Actual Rate ◽  
Sensible Heat ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Explosive Mixture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Time Required

In a previous paper upon the subject, the question was propounded whether or no there is any direct relation between the actual rate at which the potential energy of an explosive mixture is transferred on explosion as sensible heat to its products and the magnitude of the chemical affinity between its combining constituents. As the result of an experimental enquiry into the matter, it was proved:– ( a ) that, whereas the affinity for oxygen of methane is at least twenty to thirty times greater than that of hydrogen, the time required for the attainment of maximum pressure in the case of the primary methane-air mixture (CH 4 + O 2 + 4N 2 ) is at least some five to eight times as long as that required in the case of the primary hydrogen-air mixture (2H 2 + O 2 + 4N 2 );

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