"Colour'd shadows" [[electronic resource] ] : contexts in publishing, printing, and reading nineteenth-century British women writers / / Terence Allan Hoagwood and Kathryn Ledbetter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451069603321
• Autore: Hoagwood Terence Allan <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-36820-2; 9786611368203; 1-4039-7953-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): LedbetterKathryn
• Disciplina: 821.8099287; 821/.8099287
• Soggetti: English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism; Women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women - Great Britain - Intellectual life - 19th century; English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism; Printing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Scholarly Fantasy and Material Reality in Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon -- Ideology and Textuality in Hemans's Records of Woman -- Scandal as Commodity and the "Calumniated Woman" -- "The Very Roads of Literature": Women Editors of Nineteenth-Century British Literary Annuals -- Voluptuous Opportunities: Visual Images in the Keepsake -- "The Fate of Woman At Its Root": Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom -- "Varied Forms Pass Glitt'ring": Violet Fane's Denzil Place: A Story in Verse.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by ; women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.

The politics of evidence : from evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence / / Justin Parkhurst

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155153303321
• Autore: Parkhurst Justin O.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Taylor & Francis, 2017; London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 9781315675008; 1315675005; 9781317380870; 1317380878; 9781317380863; 131738086X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
• Classificazione: MED035000POL019000POL028000
• Disciplina: 320.6
• Soggetti: Policy sciences; Discrimination; Research - Evaluation; Social policy; Elaboration d'une politique; Sciences politiques; Politique sociale; Témoignages; policymaking; politics; political science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part 1. Evidence-based policymaking : opportunities and challenges -- part 2. The politics of evidence -- part 3. Towards the good governance of evidence.
• Sommario/riassunto: There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas. This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective. Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking. It explores the concern of evidence advocates that political interests drive the misuse or manipulation of evidence, as well as counter-concerns of critical policy scholars about how appeals to ‘evidence-based policy’ can depoliticise political debates. Both concerns reflect forms of bias – the first representing technical bias, whereby evidence use violates principles of scientific best practice, and the second representing issue bias in how appeals to evidence can shift political debates to particular questions or marginalise policy-relevant social concerns. Part II then draws on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand the origins and mechanisms of both forms of bias in relation to political interests and values. It illustrates how such biases are not only common, but can be much more predictable once we recognise their origins and manifestations in policy arenas. Finally, Part III discusses ways to move forward for those seeking to improve the use of evidence in public policymaking. It explores what constitutes ‘good evidence for policy’, as well as the ‘good use of evidence’ within policy processes, and considers how to build evidence-advisory institutions that embed key principles of both scientific good practice and democratic representation. Taken as a whole, the approach promoted is termed the ‘good governance of evidence’ – a concept that represents the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.