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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Wedgwood"”.
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The discursive shaping of intellectual ownership: the case of James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood
… some similarities between James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood's legitimation of their respective intellectual properties. More particularly I mean to investigate the literary technologies involved in their discourses over authorship, originality, invention and imitation. Such an analysis provides an …
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“Die manskap”: How gender, class and race inform understandings of violence among young ‘coloured men’ in contemporary South Africa
… (Morrell, 1994; Lorber, 1994; Connell, 2005; Wedgwood, 2009). Connell’s research deconstructed the biological association of male behaviour as natural to highlight how masculinity is learnt. Connell (1982) noted that what was considered ‘natural’ male behaviour in 1982 was associated with …
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Disability Identity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Letters
… his letters to his ill friend and patron Thomas Wedgwood in which he emphasizes their shared connection of living with a disability. Coleridge’s letters have potential to reshape modern assumptions about the experience of disability, inviting an reassessment of disabled futures and changing the …
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A knowledge-based approach to modelling fast response catchments
This thesis describes research in to flood forecasting on rapid response catchments, using knowledge based principles. Extensive use was made of high resolution single site radar data from the radar site at Hameldon Hill in North West England. Actual storm events and synthetic precipitation data …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, Richard Hutton and Julia Wedgwood. The thesis concludes with an epilogic section covering critics of the late nineteenth century, including Frederic Harrison and Andrew Lang. In each instance the context of each critic's wider work figures prominently. The thesis contends …