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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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Effect of blood meals and mating on biodemographic characteristics of Aedes albopictus
Lifespan did not differ between virgin and mated males and females. The number of blood meals (one and two) significantly reduced adult lifespan compared with those with no blood meal. The effect of the second blood meal doubled females' egg production and their reproductive output.
Georgios D. Mastronikolos +1 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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For Goodness' Sake: The Coloniality of Research Ethics in Biological Anthropology
ABSTRACT Modern science has emerged in relation with European colonization whereby virtuous logics have often animated dis/possessions and governing authorities over Indigenous Peoples and their territories. Indigenous Peoples have long resisted extractive and exploitative scientific practices.
Rick W. A. Smith, Jessica Kolopenuk
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ABSTRACT Using three‐wave panel data from the United Kingdom (N = 604) and the United States (N = 512), we examined changes in system‐legitimization across the 2024 electoral cycle and whether trajectories differed for electoral winners and losers. In both countries, system‐legitimization increased after the election, suggesting that elections function
Evan A. Valdes +3 more
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ABSTRACT In just a few decades, historiography on gender and law in Latin America has grown from foundational works establishing the dimensions of women's legal status in colonial compilations and later national codes to scholarship that considers the distinctions among different social groups of women and traces women as active agents in pluralistic ...
Sarah C. Chambers
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Influences on Seasonal Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Landfall Probability
Abstract Modes of tropical atmosphere‐ocean variability, such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM), are useful predictors of seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone (TC) frequency. However, the percentage of TCs that make landfall has varied widely year‐to‐year since 1980 (13%–75%) and is weakly correlated with the ...
Christina M. Patricola‐DiRosario +2 more
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Uncovering <i>Cyperus polystachyos</i> in Europe: Nomenclatural Insights and New Historical Records. [PDF]
Iamonico D, Verloove F, De Mei S.
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