Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (328 pages)
Disciplina	410.188
Soggetto topico	English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Life sciences - Great Britain - History - 18th century Life sciences - Great Britain - History - 19th century Life sciences literature - Great Britain - History and criticism
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- "All families and genera" -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- About this book -- Explorations of life sciences writing (1700-1900): A Preface -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1. The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines -- 1. Introduction: Biology or something else? -- 2. The structure of CELiST -- 3. The authors in CELiST -- 3.1 The sex of the authors -- 3.2 Geography -- 4. The texts in CELiST -- 4.1 The genres in CELiST -- Works cited -- Chapter 2. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Criteria, conventions, encoding and editorial marks -- 1. General remarks -- 1.1 Headers -- 1.2 Fonts -- 1.3 Page numbers -- 1.4 Chapter and section titles -- 1.5 Paragraphs and lines -- 1.6 Analysable items -- 1.7 Omissions and amendments -- 2. Mark-up language -- 2.1 Tags in CELiST -- 3. Editorial marks and decisions -- 3.1 Pages -- 3.2 Lines and paragraphs -- 3.3 Words -- 4. List of editorial marks used in CELiST -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 3. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The eighteenth-century samples in CELiST -- 1707. James Douglas, M. D. -- 1707. Sir Hans Sloane -- 1717. James Keill -- 1720. William Gibson -- 1723. Patrick Blair -- 1730. Thomas Boreman -- 1737. Elizabeth Blackwell -- 1737. John Brickell M. D. -- 1743. George Edwards -- 1750. Griffith Hughes -- 1752. James Solas Dodd -- 1758. William Borlase -- 1766. Thomas Pennant -- 1769. Edward Bancroft -- 1774. Oliver Goldsmith -- 1774. William Withering -- 1786. William Speechly -- 1789. James Bolton -- 1794. Edward Donovan -- 1795. Sir James Edward Smith -- 3. A note on the Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited. Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of the nineteenth-century life sciences texts -- 1804. Maria Elizabetha Jacson -- 1808. Alexander Wilson -- 1816. Priscilla Wakefield -- 1819. Sir William Lawrence -- 1824. Edward Jenner -- 1828. John Davidson Godman -- 1832. Almira Hart Lincoln (Phelps) -- 1835. Sir William Jardine -- 1840. Anne Pratt -- 1848. Sir John Graham Dalyell -- 1859. Elizabeth (Cabot Cary) Agassiz -- 1859. Charles Robert Darwin -- 1863. Thomas Henry Huxley -- 1867. Herbert Spencer -- 1876. Alexander Macallister -- 1879. Phebe Lankester -- 1880. Francis Maitland Balfour -- 1889. Sir Francis Galton -- 1895. Emily Lovira Gregory -- 1898. Alpheus Spring Packard -- Works cited -- Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness: An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus and representativeness -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Findings and discussion -- Qualitative representativeness -- Quantitative representativeness -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Chapter 6. Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and methodology -- 3. The analysis -- 3.1 Structure variable -- 3.2 Chronological distribution -- 3.3 Genre variable -- 3.4 Semantic categorisation -- 3.5 Reversibility of components -- 4. Conclusions -- Works cited -- Chapter 7. Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Flourishing female scientific writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botany -- 2.1 Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botanists -- 2.2 Sources. 3. Directives in female and male botanists -- 4. Historical evolution of directives -- 5. Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 8. Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women scientists, prefaces and persuasion -- 3. Material and methodology -- 4. Data analysis and discussion -- 4.1 Prefaces and bodies: General data -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Chapter 9. Persuasion in English scientific writing: Exploring suasive verbs in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and posthumanism English texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Persuasion, stance and suasive verbs in scientific writing -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 4. Analysis of data -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Chapter 10. "If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much": Authorial presence through conditionals and citation sequences in late modern English life sciences texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The author in the text in late modern English scientific writing -- 3. An overview on studies of authorial presence -- 4. Conditionals and authorial presence -- 5. Expressing opinions by means of citation sequences -- 6. Corpus and methodology -- 7. Analysis of the results -- 7.1 Conditionals -- 7.2 Citation sequences -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- Works cited -- Chapter 11. "This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth": The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction and objectives -- 2. On adverbs and examples: Expressing true facts in Life Sciences -- 3. Evidence in context: data from CELiST -- 4. "My views amount to the following": A brief analysis of the examples -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited. Chapter 12. Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stance and evaluative-that -- 3. Method -- 4. Evaluative that-expressions: Analysis and results -- 4.1 Evaluative entity -- 4.2 Evaluative stance -- 4.3 Evaluative source -- 4.4 Expression -- 5. Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 13. Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deontic modality -- 3. Method -- 4. Deontic modals in CELiST -- 4.1 The form of deontic modals -- 4.2 The function of deontic modals -- 5. Conclusions -- Works cited -- Chapter 14. A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register: Conjunctions in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Corpus description -- 2.2 Variables and procedure -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 Type of relation -- 3.2 Sex of author -- 3.3 Age of author -- 3.4 Place of education -- 3.5 Genre and level of specialisation -- 4. Conclusions -- Works cited -- Appendix 1. Conjunctions not found in the corpus -- Appendix 2. Conjunctions found in the corpus -- Additive conjunctions -- Causal conjunctions -- Adversative conjunctions -- Temporal conjunctions -- Chapter 15. Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences: Descriptivemess and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Register variation and change in historical and scientific English -- 3. Methodology: The Multidimensional Analysis applied -- 4. Analysis of data -- 4.1 Variation across time and disciplines -- 4.2 Variation across genres -- 4.3 Variation across male and female scientific discourse -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Index.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Birkbeck College, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Soggetto topico	English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Civilization English literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc. Periodicals.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Nineteen
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Autore	Wu Duncan
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (334 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/145
Soggetto topico	English literature - 19th century - History and criticism English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Romanticism - Great Britain Literature and society - Great Britain - History
ISBN	1-118-84318-5 1-118-84310-X 1-118-84317-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Note on Monetary Values; Myth 1 Romanticism began in 1798; Myth 2 English Romanticism was a reaction against the Enlightenment; 2.1 New Forms of Sociability; 2.2 The Language of Passion; 2.3 The Poet as Prophet; Myth 3 The Romantics hated the sciences; Myth 4 The Romantics repudiated the Augustans, especially Pope and Dryden; Myth 5 The Romantic poets were misunderstood, solitary geniuses; Myth 6 Romantic poems were produced by spontaneous inspiration; Myth 7 Blake was mad Myth 8 Blake wrote `Jerusalem' as an anthem to EnglishnessMyth 9 Lyrical Ballads (1798) was designed to illustrate `the two cardinal points of poetry', using poems about everyday life and the supernatural; Myth 10 Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads was a manifesto for the Romantic revolution; Myth 11 Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister; Myth 12 Tory Wordsworth; Myth 13 The person from Porlock; Myth 14 Jane Austen had an incestuous relationship with her sister; Myth 15 The Keswick rapist; Myth 16 Byron had an affair with his sister Myth 17 Byron was a great lover of womenMyth 18 Byron was a champion of democracy; Myth 19 Byron was a `noble warrior' who died fighting for Greek freedom; Myth 20 Shelley committed suicide by sailboat; Myth 21 Shelley's heart; Myth 22 Keats's `humble origins'; Myth 23 Keats was gay; Myth 24 Keats was killed by a review; Myth 25 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Frankenstein; Myth 26 Women writers were an exploited underclass-unknown, unloved, and unpaid; Myth 27 The Romantics were atheists; Myth 28 The Romantics were counter-cultural drug users Myth 29 The Romantics practised free love on principleMyth 30 The Romantics were the rock stars of their day; Coda; Further Reading; Index; EULA
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina	809.912 820.9/12
Altri autori (Persone)	BeaumontMatthew <1972->
Collana	Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Soggetto topico	English literature - 19th century - History and criticism English literature - 20th century - History and criticism Art and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Visual perception in literature Realism in literature
ISBN	1-78268-669-X 0-470-69131-X 1-282-12276-2 9786612122767 1-280-93256-2 9786610932566 1-4051-7745-4 0-470-69203-0 1-4051-8201-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Adventures in Realism; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reclaiming Realism; Chapter 1 Literary Realism Reconsidered: ""The world in its length and breadth""; Chapter 2 Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: ""That unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness""; Chapter 3 Space, Mobility, and the Novel: ""The spirit of place is a great reality""; Chapter 4 Naturalism: ""Dirt and horror pure and simple"" Chapter 5 Realism before and after Photography: ""The fantastical form of a relation among things""Chapter 6 The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: ""Serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry""; Chapter 7 Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: ""The fact of new forms of life, already born and active""; Chapter 8 Socialist Realism: ""To depict reality in its revolutionary development""; Chapter 9 Realism, Modernism, and Photography: ""At last, at last the mask has been torn away""; Chapter 10 Cinematic Realism: ""A recreation of the world in its own image"" Chapter 11 The Current of Critical Irrealism: ""A moonlit enchanted night""Chapter 12 Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: ""Strange shapes of the unwarped primal world""; Chapter 13 Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: ""What we really want most out of realism . . .""; Chapter 14 Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: ""What's truth got to do with it?""; Chapter 15 A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion; Index
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Autore	Eastham Andrew
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/18
Collana	Continuum literary studies
Soggetto topico	Aestheticism (Literature) English literature - 19th century - History and criticism English literature - 20th century - History and criticism Irony in literature Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4725-4291-6 1-283-30767-7 9786613307675 1-4411-3001-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Walter Pater's Acoustic Space: 'The School of Giorgione', Dionysian Anders-streben, and the Politics of Soundscape -- 2. Aesthetic Vampirism: The Concept of Irony in the Work of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Vernon Lee -- 3. 'Master of Irony': Henry James, Transatlantic Bildung and the Critique of Aestheticism -- 4. Irony's Turn: The Redress of Aestheticism in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks and Stories -- 5. Sacrificing Aestheticism: The Dialectic of Modernity and the Ends of Beauty in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love -- 6. Aristocracies of Mourning: The Reconsecration of Aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited -- 7. Sublime Ironies: The Remainders of Romanticism in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy and Krapp's Last Tape -- 8. Inoperative Ironies: Jamesian Aestheticism and Post-modern Culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty -- 9. The Aesthetic Afterlives of Mr W.P. : Reanimating Pater in Twenty-first-Century Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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