04369nam 2200685Ia 450 991046291610332120200520144314.00-8122-0316-X10.9783/9780812203165(CKB)2670000000418188(OCoLC)859160640(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748431(SSID)ssj0000981179(PQKBManifestationID)11505253(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981179(PQKBWorkID)10989364(PQKB)10487648(MiAaPQ)EBC3442064(MdBmJHUP)muse26827(DE-B1597)449183(OCoLC)979968271(OCoLC)987953699(DE-B1597)9780812203165(Au-PeEL)EBL3442064(CaPaEBR)ebr10748431(CaONFJC)MIL682387(OCoLC)932312862(EXLCZ)99267000000041818819981014d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe most beautiful man in existence[electronic resource] the scandalous life of Alexander Lesassier /Lisa RosnerPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Press19991 online resource (281 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51105-5 0-8122-3486-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-249) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Journal of Life -- CHAPTER 1. Interest or Love -- CHAPTER 2. Born to Misfortune -- CHAPTER 3. Hot from Your Studies -- CHAPTER 4. This Despicable Rock -- CHAPTER 5. The Most Beautiful Man in Existence -- CHAPTER 6. Tinsel of Military Reputation -- CHAPTER 7. Soothing Hope of Speedy Promotion -- CHAPTER 8. Arrived at Wealth and Dignity -- CHAPTER 9. Thrown on the Wide World -- CHAPTER 10. Appearances Are of Essential Consequence -- CHAPTER 11. Consecutive Chain of Corroborative Evidence -- CHAPTER 12. Compare What I Might Have Been with What I Am -- Epilogue: One Series of Hardships and Privations -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was deposited in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Alexander Lesassier died in 1839 during the First Afghan War; his trunk and its contents remained untouched for the next century and a half.It has now been opened and a remarkable tale, told in remarkable detail, has spilled forth. The life of Alexander Lesassier, as expertly reconstructed by Lisa Rosner, affords startling insight into the sensibilities of an era and of the man who, in his own eyes and those of the women who adored him, was its most perfect creation.Affable and self-absorbed, engaging and ignoble Lesassier was a physician, military surgeon, and novelist, who was also a shameless opportunist, charming scoundrel, seducer, and survivor. His is the story of a failed medical man who wanted to be something different and saw himself as entitled to more than he had; someone who can always be guaranteed to make the wrong choice, and then protest that he has done well.This fascinating and deeply absorbing book offers rare insights into Georgian, Regency, and early Victorian Britain through the fortunes and misfortunes, hopes and whims, of "the most beautiful man in existence."PhysiciansGreat BritainBiographyPhysiciansScotlandEdinburghBiographyGreat BritainSocial life and customs19th centuryGreat BritainSocial life and customs18th centuryElectronic books.PhysiciansPhysicians610/.92BRosner Lisa541989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462916103321The most beautiful man in existence2461645UNINA05596nam 2200709 a 450 991045790620332120200520144314.01-283-35836-0978661335836390-272-7574-2(CKB)2550000000074675(EBL)811290(OCoLC)778617820(SSID)ssj0000554751(PQKBManifestationID)11359212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554751(PQKBWorkID)10517022(PQKB)10293028(MiAaPQ)EBC811290(Au-PeEL)EBL811290(CaPaEBR)ebr10518069(CaONFJC)MIL335836(EXLCZ)99255000000007467519971007d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFocus on Ireland[electronic resource] /edited by Jeffrey KallenAmsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.c19971 online resource (278 p.)Varieties of English around the world. General series,0172-7362 ;v. 21Description based upon print version of record.90-272-4879-6 1-55619-718-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.FOCUS ON IRELAND; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; REFERENCES; Abbreviations; Maps; REFERENCES; Irish English Context and Contacts; 1. The study of Irish English; 1.1. Irish English and language contact; 1.2. Further development in the study of Irish English; 2. The spread of Irish English; 2.1. The introduction of English in Ireland; 2.2. Bilingualism, diglossia, and the spread of English; 2.3. The status of Irish English; 3. Irish English and linguistic variation; REFERENCES; Bilingualism and Substrate InfluenceA Look at Clefts and Reflexives1. Introduction2. Cleft sentences; 3. Reflexives; 4. Summary; 5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Influence of Irish on Perfect Marking in Hiberno-English The Case of the ""Extended-now"" Perfect; 1. Introduction1; 2. Hiberno-English perfects; 3.Meanings and uses of the extended-now perfect in HE dialects; 4. The origins of the EP; 4.1. Superstratum vs. substratum accounts; 4.2. The case for the Irish substratum reconsidered; 5. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Emerging Irish Phonological Substratum in Irish English; 1. Language contact2. The distribution of the Irish dialects3. Emerging cross-linguistic links; 4. The palatalization/velarization contrast; 4.1. The labial consonants; 4.2. The velar consonants; 4.2.1 Velar stops preceding the diphthong /ai/; 5. The alveolar/dental consonants; 6. The sonorants; 6.1. R-types; 7. Length and the vocalic system; 7.1. Length distinctions; 7.2. The raising of mid vowels; 8. Conclusion; REFERENCES; The Syntax Of Belfast English; 1. Introduction; 2. Standard Belfast English; 2.1. Inversion in embedded questions; 2.2. Inverted imperatives; 2.3. Subject contact relatives3. Local forms which are not strongly stigmatized3.1. Singular concord; 3.2. The historic present; 3.3. For-to infinitives; 3.4. Topic structures; 4. Stigmatized structures; 4.1. Non-standard past tenses and past participles; 4.2. Demonstratives; 4.3. Negative concord; 5. Stability and change; NOTES; REFERENCES; Aspects of Prosody in Hiberno-EnglishThe Case of Belfast; 1. Defining prosody and overcoming notions of standardness; 2. The neglect of prosody and the need for an analytic framework; 3. Intonation and the Anglo-Irish bias: The consequences4. Background to Belfast and northern Hiberno-English intonation4.1. Rises as a relic of Irish English?; 5. Intonation in British English and Hiberno-English: Establishing units; 6. A model for analysing Belfast English intonation; 6.1. Intonational divisions in Belfast English; 6.2. Acoustic correlates of prominence in Belfast intonation: primacy of obtrusion; 6.3. Pitch movement; 6.4. The phonetic basis for identifying more than one prominence per tone sequence; 7. Tonal characteristics of prominences in Belfast intonation; 8. Non-prominent components of the tone sequence8.1. Leading segment typesIrish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this variety in the Irish diaspora and its use in literature, provide the main impetus for research into Irish English. This volume brings together 12 original papers which use a variety of methods to examine these aspects of English in Ireland. Following a historical introduction which looks critically at reVarieties of English around the world.General series ;v. 21.English languageIrelandHistoryEnglish languageVariationIrelandEnglish languageDialectsIrelandIrelandLanguagesElectronic books.English languageHistory.English languageVariationEnglish languageDialects427/.9417Kallen Jeffrey L868003MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457906203321Focus on Ireland1937626UNINA