scholarly journals The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in the Nineteenth Century: Social Influences on Editorial Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (23) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Simone Celine Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Editorial Practices

A brief history of suicidal behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Navneet Kapur ◽  
Robert Goldney
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter places suicide and suicidal behaviour in a European historical context. Although suicide has been documented throughout history, its meaning and functions have varied over time. In the Middle Ages, suicide was regarded as sinful but, subsequently, was conceptualized in terms of social influences or mental illness. Systematic research into suicidal behaviour has been undertaken for more than two centuries. The contributions of Morselli, using statistical and epidemiological techniques, were particularly notable. Many of the accepted social and psychiatric antecedents of suicide we talk about today were well described by the nineteenth century.

LUDOLPH DISSEN, AUGUST BOECKH, GOTTFRIED HERMANN AND TYCHO MOMMSEN: TRACING ASYNDETON, STEERING INFLUENCE

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
MARIA G. XANTHOU
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Poetic Diction ◽  
Train Of Thought ◽  
Editorial Practices

Abstract Ludolph Dissen's Excursus II on the use of asyndeton in poetic diction, accompanying his 1830 edition of Pindar's odes and fragments, sparked a controversy among German classical scholars, August Boeckh, Gottfried Hermann, Theodor Bergk, Friedrich Schneidewin, and Tycho Mommsen among them. Set in a diachronic framework, this article explores Dissen's observations in his Excursus II and argues that Dissen's and Mommsen's views mark the two ends of a diachronic spectrum, constructing a virtual diptych of literary and textual criticism, as both classical scholars tackled the use of asyndeton in their editions. Along this train of thought, it scrutinizes Dissen's influence on Mommsen's editio maior. It also discusses the influence exerted on their views by Boeckh's and Hermann's editorial practices. Hence, in the light of the rivalry between Boeckh and Hermann, the article explores their reaction to Dissen's observations. In conclusion, it argues that nineteenth-century German classical scholarship fertilized Pindaric literary criticism through large scale projects e.g. the edition of texts, as well as through subtle observations resulting from textual criticism and close reading.

scholarly journals The Life of The Life of David Brainerd: Agency, Evangelicalism, and Book History

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Snead
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Book History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Material Texts ◽  
Editorial Practices

This article describes the editorial practices that Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley brought to their respective editions of The Life of David Brainerd, explains how those practices were informed by their opposing theological stances towards salvation, and traces the circulation and reception of each edition back to those theological stances. Finally, the article invokes classic models of the methodology of book history and recent work on the circulation of nineteenth-century evangelical publications, arguing that an understanding of the kind of theological editing eighteenth-century figures like Edwards and Wesley took can better help us to articulate nineteenth- and twentieth- (and twenty-first) century attitudes and assumptions about agency and material texts.

Chaucer among the Victorians

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-201
Author(s):  
Richard Utz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Manuscript Studies ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject

The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw a growing fascination with Geoffrey Chaucer and his texts. English Victorians as well as their contemporaries in other English-speaking countries imagined Chaucer as a predecessor to their own preferred aesthetics, ideologies, and mentalities. During the first half of the nineteenth century, antiquarians and gentlemen scholars discover the writer as part of the general enthusiasm about England’s medieval past. They lay the groundwork for the professional medievalists of the final third of the century, when Chaucer’s texts become the subject of manuscript studies, historical linguistics, and literary studies. This interest among the educated classes is accompanied by a strong interest among the general Victorian public. These readers encounter Chaucer via adaptations, translations, bowdlerized anthologies, children’s versions, and ‘Penny Dreadfuls’. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Chaucer is generally acknowledged as the father of English poetry and the source of immense nationalist pride.

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