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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Godwin"”.
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The political philosophy of William Godwin
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Political Science, 1957
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… regarding the historical fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley, specifically considering the importance of Godwin’s unpublished essay on genre, “Of History and Romance” (1797), in the creation of a unique approach to historical fiction, the Godwinian historical novel. To do this, three …
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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish
… by analyzing the themes presented in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin. Focusing primarily on Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of …
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Doctoral thesis recital (lecture recital)
Three wedding songs / Godwin Sadoh -- Six Yoruba folk songs / Akin Euba -- Because of you / Fela Sowande -- Two songs for Julie-Ju / Noel da Costa -- Songs of separation / William Grant Still -- Early in the mornin' / David Baker -- Heart on the wall / Robert Owens.
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
This thesis examines the work of William Godwin in terms of a conjunction between secular Enlightenment optimism and the psychology of Christian hope. This conjunction produced his particular inflection of human perfectibility, where the idea of liberal improvement in society becomes a …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… Romantic period such as Olaudah Equiano, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley responded to this moral dilemma of liberal individualism by developing a new understanding of humility in their works. The meaning of humility in the West has been fundamentally shaped by the Jewish and Christian traditions …
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Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… My final chapter devotes space to William Godwin, whose novels underscore the moral horror of the scaffold not just as the ultimate reification of the law’s power but, more interestingly, as the terminus of the “poor deserted individual, with the whole force of the community conspiring his …
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
… change. The five men so studied are William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael [Mikhail] Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Gustav Landauer. These five represent the major tendencies of nineteenth century European anarchism, while also providing a broad geographical and chronological cross …
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Rilevamento e rappresentazione cartografica della variabilità spaziale dei suoli a differenti scale d'indagine: i casi studio di Monastir e del Foglio 549 Muravera
… nor to the dynamic character of the soil (Godwin and Miller, 2003; McBratney et al., 2003; Sommer et al., 2003). For the semi-detailed scale the area of Foglio Geologico Italia 549 - Muravera�is been chosen with a scale 1:50.000 Geopedological indications are from many executed profiles …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by three major elements noted in the criticism on Hardy’s literary art in general and on …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… for narrative. Through my readings of William Godwin, George Colman the Younger, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, I uncover a radical Romantic aesthetic that critiques the politics of witness and privileges the politics of social implication. We are accustomed to …
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Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy.
… writing of Smith, Kames, Mackenzie, Reeve and Godwin in order to illustrate both the promise and the danger that these authors attribute to imaginative sympathy and to the reading practices that promote sympathetic reactions. Chapter Four explores Scott's experiments with a form of fiction that …
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Mobile Mixed Reality Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning
… learners in enhancing vocabulary development (Godwin-Jones, 2016; Liu Tsai, 2013), motivation and engagement (Ibáñez, Kloos, Leony, Rueda, Maroto, 2011; Liu, Tan, Chu, 2010; Dunleavy Dede, 2014) and collaborative, multimodal meaning-making (Ho, Nelson, Müeller-Wittig, 2011). Despite these …
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Regulation of Connexin43 by Phosphorylation in Heart Development
… gap junctions formed by connexin 43 (Cx43) (Godwin et al.7 1993). The Cx43 protein expression levels are unclear and what role phosphorylation plays in the regulation of signal transduction through these gap junctions during heart formation. Reportedly, mutations which replace potentially …
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The Family, Morality and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813-1890
… It considers Smith, Hume, Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Subsequent chapters examine four distinct movements in the Anglo-American tradition, each of which engaged with the family to answer questions about morality, sociability and the role of the new social sciences. These movements include …
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Carriage rate of staphylococcus aureusamong healthcare workers at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. The carriage of S. aureus among healthcare workers has been associated with transmission of the bacterium to susceptible patients. The aim of this study was to determine the carriage rate, antimicrobial …
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Carriage rate of staphylococcus aureusamong healthcare workers at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. The carriage of S. aureus among healthcare workers has been associated with transmission of the bacterium to susceptible patients. The aim of this study was to determine the carriage rate, antimicrobial …
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