scholarly journals Sir James Ivory, F. R. S. (1765-1842)

Nature ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 150 (3803) ◽  
pp. 342-342
Keyword(s):  
James Ivory

The House of Mirth

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
James Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
James Ivory ◽  
Costume Drama ◽  
American Classic ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The House Of Mirth

The great British filmmaker Terence Davies adapts Edith Wharton's American classic, The House of Mirth, and the sensibilities of author and filmmaker mesh unexpectedly, producing a film of uncommon delicacy. Simulating the traditional costume drama as it has been codified by such directors as James Ivory, Davies actually works against the most entrenched conventions of the genre by countering naturalism with artifice. This review of Davies's film examines the aesthetic strategies of this extraordinary adaptation, and places the film in the context of Davies's work and contemporary art cinema more generally.

Topos and chronos of English country houseat the beginning of the XXth century in literature and cinema(the novel “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro and a film by James Ivory)

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Anna S. Sholokhova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
James Ivory ◽  
Second World

The Stately-house novel takes a special place in the English classical literature. The estate here is of key importance in the image-structure of the work. The world of an English estate is reflected as a multi-faceted text, extremely enriched with cultural signs. Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro “The Remains of the Day” can be regarded as one of the examples of typical British aristocratic prose. The narrator and protagonist of the novel is a butler, who serves in the large English Stately home Darlington Hall. The family estate is considered by the hero as a symbol of order and harmony, and at the same time it personifies the ideal world of the past that is gradually fading away. In 1993 the director James Ivory made a film based on the Ishiguro’s novel. He created different visual images of an English estate on the screen with particular accuracy. Fictional Darlington Hall is a combination of several Stately homes located in the southwest of England. The novel by Kazuo Ishiguro and the film by J. Ivory are memories of a bygone era of British Empire, ended with the Second World War.

James Ivory

BMJ ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 325 (7372) ◽  
pp. 1118-1118
Author(s):  
A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
James Ivory

scholarly journals Supplementary note to the thir­teenth series of experimental researches in electricity

1843 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 58-59
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Supplementary Note ◽  
Outer Plate ◽  
James Ivory ◽  
Experimental Researches ◽  
Universal Application

The author describes, in this supplementary note, experiments made with the view of determining the specific inductive capacities of dielectrics, by means of an apparatus of the following form. Three circular brass plates were mounted, side by side, on insulated pillars; the middle one was fixed, but the two outer plates were moveable on slides, so that all three could be brought with their sides almost into contact, or separated to any required distance. Two gold leaves were suspended in a glass jar from insulated wires, connecting each of the leaves respectively with the adjacent outer plate. The amount of disturbance in the electric equilibrium of the outer plates pro­duced by interposing a plate of the dielectric substance to be tried, after charging the middle plate, was taken as a measure of the spe­cific inductive capacity of that dielectric. By varying the size and one another, new conditions are supplied for the more exact deter­mination of the relative inductive powers of dielectrics of every de­scription ; and by sufficiently reducing the dimensions of the instru­ment, it may be rendered applicable to comparatively small masses of dielectrics, such as crystals, and even diamonds. An instrument capable of such universal application the author proposes to desig­nate by the name of Differential Inductometer . Also read, a Letter addressed to P. M. Roget, M. D., Secretary to the Royal Society, by James Ivory, Esq., F. R. S., accompanying a paper on Astronomical Refractions. Communicated by Dr. Roget.

James Ivory's last papers on the ‘Figure of the Earth’ (with biographical additions)

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.D.D. Craik
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Attraction ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Late Work ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Figure Of The Earth ◽  
James Ivory

Sir James Ivory, F.R.S. (1765–1842), was best known for his work on the gravitational attraction of ellipsoids, and the ‘Figure of the Earth’; a problem that attracted great attention. The mixed reception of Ivory's late work on this topic is examined. Although refereed fairly and favourably by George Biddell Airy, it was attacked by Isaac Todhunter long after Ivory's death. Further biographical information about James Ivory is given. This includes evidence that reveals the identity of his mother and shows that he was not born illegitimately, as I had claimed previously.

James Ivory, F.R.S., mathematician: ‘The most unlucky person that ever existed’

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Craik
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
James Ivory

James Ivory (1765–1842) has been described as the finest British mathematician of his time, and he received many honours. Yet his career was largely unsuccessful and unhappy, and from the age of 51 he lived reclusively in retirement in London. The explanation for this paradox is that he suffered repeatedly from mental illness, perhaps paranoid schizophrenia.

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