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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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, 2016 Science fiction (SF) emerges as a distinct literary and cultural genre out of a familiar set of world-famous texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (1966–) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–) that have,
Canavan, Gerry
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Taming Data Explosion in Probabilistic Information Integration [PDF]
, 2006 Data integration has been a challenging problem for decades. In an ambient environment, where many autonomous devices have their own information sources and network connectivity is ad hoc and peer-to-peer, it even becomes a serious bottleneck.
Keijzer, Ander de +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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'“A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse": Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions' [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal, this essay attempts to perform a geocritical reading of the London district of Clerkenwell. After discussing the spatial turn in the Humanities and introducing a range of spatial critical approaches, the essay ...
Vuohelainen, M.
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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