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342 - The Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial (DESCANT) intervention: Goal Attainment Scaling
- Helen Chester, Rebecca Beresford, Paul Clarkson, Charlotte Entwistle, Vincent Gillan, Jane Hughes, Martin Orrell, Rosa Pitts, Ian Russell, Eileen Symonds, David Challis
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 32 / Issue S1 / October 2020
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- 04 November 2020, p. 102
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The DESCANT (Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial) intervention provided a personalised care package to improve the cognitive abilities, function and well -being of people with early-stage dementia and their carers by providing a range of memory aids, with training and support for use. This presentation will explore findings from a goal attainment scaling exercise undertaken within a multi-site pragmatic randomised trial, part of a NIHR-funded research programme ‘Effective Home Support in Dementia Care: Components, Impacts and Costs of Tertiary Prevention.’
The aim was to describe the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) approach developed; investigate the types of goals identified by people with dementia and their carers and subsequent attainment; and explore the role of Dementia Support Practitioners (DSPs) in the process. This GAS exercise was designed by researchers, a clinical psychologist, a clinician and a DSP. Goal setting and attainment were conducted with the person with dementia and their carer and recorded by DSPs. Data were obtained from 117 intervention records and semi-structured interviews with five DSPs delivering the intervention across seven NHS Trusts in England and Wales. The GAS exercise was conducted as planned with goals and extent of involvement in the exercise tailored to individual participants and engagement was high. Demographic characteristics from the trial baseline dataset were analysed. Measures were created from intervention records to permit quantification and descriptive analysis. Interviews were professionally transcribed and subject to thematic analysis to identify salient themes.
A total of 293 goals were identified across the 117 participants. From these 17 goal types were distinguished across six domains: self -care; household tasks; daily occupation; orientation; communication; and well-being and safety. A measure of goal attainment appropriate to both the client group and a modest intervention was obtained. On average participants had evidenced some improvement regarding goals set. Qualitative findings suggested overall DSPs were positive about their experience of goal setting. Although several challenges were identified, if these were overcome, measuring goal attainment was generally viewed as straightforward. GAS can be used in the context of a psychosocial intervention for people with early-stage dementia to identify and measure attainment of personalised care goals.
7 - God's Grammar: Milton's Parsing of the Divine
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Now had th’ Almighty Father from above,
(From the pure Empyrean where he sits
High thron’d above all height) bent down his Eye,
His own Works and their Works at once to view.
About him all the Sanctities of Heav’n
Stood thick as Stars, and from his Sight received
Beatitude past utt’rance: On his right
The radiant Image of his Glory sat,
His only Son. On earth he first beheld
Our two first Parents, yet the only two
Of Mankind, in the happy garden plac’d,
Reaping immortal fruits of Joy and Love;
Uninterrupted Joy, unrival’d Love
In blissful Solitude. He then surveyed
Hell and the Gulph between, and Satan there
Coasting the Wall of Heaven on this side Night,
In the dun air sublime; and ready now
To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feel
On the bare outside of this world, that seem’d
Firm land imbosom’d without firmament;
Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.
Him God beholding from his prospect high,
Wherein past, present, future he beholds,
Thus to his only Son foreseeing spake. (Paradise Lost, 3.56–79)
Joseph Addison, in his famous discussion of this passage, awards extremely
high praise to Milton's sublime poetic ability:
As his Genius was wonderfully turned to the Sublime, his Subject is the noblest that could have entered into the Thoughts of Man. Every thing that is truly great and astonishing, has a place in it. The whole System of the intellectual World; the Chaos, and the Creation; Heaven, Earth and Hell; enter into the Constitution of his Poem.
In ascribing this grand, sublime view to Milton, Addison appears to be ascribing to him something approaching a divine perspective on the world, a synoptic, all-inclusive understanding that encompasses all the geographic regions of the universe. Yet, in Addison's view, even Milton's poetic sublimity ultimately must founder, and it founders against the impossible task of representing divine speech:
If Milton's Majesty forsakes him any where, it is in those Parts of his Poem, where the Divine Persons are introduced as Speakers. One may, I think, observe that the Author proceeds with a kind of Fear and Trembling, whilst he describes the Sentiments of the Almighty.
Evaluating the effectiveness of different approaches to home support for people in later stage dementia: a protocol for an observational study
- Helen Chester, Paul Clarkson, Jane Hughes, Ian Russell, Joan Beresford, Linda Davies, David Jolley, Julie Peconi, Fiona Poland, Chris Roberts, Caroline Sutcliffe, David Challis, Members of the HoSt-D (Home Support in Dementia) Programme Management Group
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 29 / Issue 7 / July 2017
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- 07 March 2017, pp. 1213-1221
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Dementia is a major health problem with a growing number of people affected by the condition, both directly and indirectly through caring for someone with dementia. Many live at home but little is known about the range and intensity of the support they receive. Previous studies have mainly reported on discrete services within a single geographical area. This paper presents a protocol for study of different services across several sites in England. The aim is to explore the presence, effects, and cost-effectiveness of approaches to home support for people in later stage dementia and their carers.
Methods:This is a prospective observational study employing mixed methods. At least 300 participants (people with dementia and their carers) from geographical areas with demonstrably different ranges of services available for people with dementia will be selected. Within each area, participants will be recruited from a range of services. Participants will be interviewed on two occasions and data will be collected on their characteristics and circumstances, quality of life, carer health and burden, and informal and formal support for the person with dementia. The structured interviews will also collect qualitative data to explore the perceptions of older people and carers.
Conclusions:This national study will explore the components of appropriate and effective home support for people with late stage dementia and their carers. It aims to inform commissioners and service providers across health and social care.
A Global View of Molecule-Forming Clouds in the Galaxy
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- Steven J. Gibson, Ward S. Howard, Christian S. Jolly, Jonathan H. Newton, Aaron C. Bell, Mary E. Spraggs, J. Marcus Hughes, Aaron M. Tagliaboschi, Christopher M. Brunt, A. Russell Taylor, Jeroen M. Stil, Thomas M. Dame
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 11 / Issue S315 / August 2015
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We have mapped cold atomic gas in 21cm line H i self-absorption (HISA) at arcminute resolution over more than 90% of the Milky Way's disk. To probe the formation of H2 clouds, we have compared our HISA distribution with CO J = 1-0 line emission. Few HISA features in the outer Galaxy have CO at the same position and velocity, while most inner-Galaxy HISA has overlapping CO. But many apparent inner-Galaxy HISA-CO associations can be explained as chance superpositions, so most inner-Galaxy HISA may also be CO-free. Since standard equilibrium cloud models cannot explain the very cold H i in many HISA features without molecules being present, these clouds may instead have significant CO-dark H2.
Agency policy preferences, congressional letter-marking and the allocation of distributive policy benefits*
- Russell W. Mills, Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Jason A. MacDonald
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- Journal of Public Policy / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / December 2016
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- 22 July 2015, pp. 547-571
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When allocating distributive benefits, bureaucrats must balance their own policy preferences with requests from members of Congress. The elimination of earmarking may provide agency personnel with greater discretion in the allocation of distributive benefits. Using a novel data set of congressional letters written in support of their community’s air traffic control towers, we estimate a model that explores the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to issue national interest exemptions to continue operations at towers slated for closure as a result of budget sequestration. Our analysis suggests that members of Congress do not enjoy the influence they possessed under earmarking when using a new method, letter-marking, to influence how agencies distribute benefits.
Fracture strength characterization of protective intermetallic coatings on AZ91E Mg alloys using FIB-machined microcantilever bending technique
- Mingyuan Lu, Hugh Russell, Han Huang
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- Journal of Materials Research / Volume 30 / Issue 10 / 28 May 2015
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The fracture strength of β-Mg17Al12 and τ-Mg32(Al, Zn)49 intermetallic coatings on AZ91E Mg alloy was investigated using a nanoindentation-based microcantilever bending technique. A set of micrometer-sized cantilevers with varying dimensions were machined using focused ion beam milling. A nanoindenter was then used to apply an increasing bending load until each cantilever fractured. The corresponding linear-elastic finite element models were created to simulate the deflection of the cantilevers and the fracture strength σm was derived from the models. The results showed that the fracture occurred at the root of the cantilever where the tensile stresses were highest; the average fracture strengths of the β-Mg17Al12 and τ-Mg32(Al, Zn)49 phases were 1.76 and 1.05 GPa, respectively. The potential sources of error are also discussed.
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. 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Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. 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Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
- Edited by Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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- By Mari C. Jones, Sjef Barbiers, Dorothee Beermann, Bernard Bel, Matt Coler, Jeffrey E. Davis, Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus, Tjeerd de Graaf, Petr Homola, Russell Hugo, Geraint Jennings, Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber, Aimée Lahaussois, Cecilia Odé, Nicholas Ostler, Hugh Paterson, Anthony Scott Warren, Cor van der Meer
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- Endangered Languages and New Technologies
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Beware of Artifacts When Characterizing Nanometer Device Features Smaller than a TEM Lamella Thickness in Semiconductor Wafer-foundries
- Wayne Zhao, Hugh Porter, Raghaw Rai, Esther (PY) Chen, Jeremy Russell
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 20 / Issue S3 / August 2014
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- 27 August 2014, pp. 1000-1001
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- By Janet Bottoms, Michael Cordner, Hugh Craig, Péter Dávidházi, Tobias Döring, John Drakakis, James Hirsh, Ton Hoenselaars, Russell Jackson, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Sonia Massai, Richard Meek, Michael Neill, Scott L. Newstok, Reiko Oya, Varsha Panjwani, Michael Pavelka, Stephen Purcell, Carol Chillington Rutter, Kiernan Ryan, David Schalkwyk, Charlotte Scott, James Shaw, Erica Sheen, Tiffany Stern, R. S. White, Richard Wilson, Cordelia Zukerman
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Dedication
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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Cosmetic Blackness: East Indies Trade, Gender, and The Devil's Law-Case
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With the recent shift in literary studies towards what is often described as a “global Renaissance,” it is hardly surprising that figures of merchants and travelers both in early modern travelogues and plays have come under greater scrutiny as sites for understanding the formation of a fluid English identity, transnational commerce, emergent colonialism, and nation building. What still remains largely unexplored, however, particularly in the context of the East Indies trade, is the impact of this emergent globalization on the bodies of the European women who were closely related to the merchants or factors. While scholarship on plays such as Fletcher's The Island Princess or Dryden's Amboyna emphasizes the roles of both European men and their beloved native women, the white woman still remains a shadowy presence at the fringes of our current academic interest in the early modern spice trade.
This essay seeks to address this gap by turning to the public stage, particularly to a play that explores how the emergent trade with the East Indies appeared to affect the physical and moral complexion of one such European woman. In the trial scene of John Webster's play The Devil's Law-Case (1623), Jolenta, the sister of Romelio, an East Indies merchant enters with “her face colour'd like that of a Moore,” accompanied by two Surgeons, “one of them like a Jew.” Although the assembled people quickly recognize her they still comment on her changed complexion. Ariosto the advocate exclaims, “Shee’s a blacke one indeed” (5.5.40) while Ercole, one of her suitors, wails “to what purpose / Are you thus ecclipst?” (5.5.57–58). Of course, Jolenta’s transformation is temporary and apparently superficial; yet her blackening appears to gesture towards deeper concerns regarding the impact of the East Indies trade, particularly on a woman who has never left her home or sailed the high seas to profit from pepper, cinnamon, cardamom and mace.
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From One Marvell to Another: Puritan Logic in “To His Coy Mistress”
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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Gods apprentice is a jorneyman: he must allwayes learne the mystery of his profession, & walking forward aime hard to the marke for the price of his high calling. as the teacher in Gods schoole must give Line upon Line, precept upon precept: so to the scholler likewise nulla dies sine linea, no day must pass without a new lesson, as Cato said, so Gods child must grow old every day learning many things. And so in practise also. he must adde to his faith vertue, | & to plowing, sowing. Like Charles the fifth, plus ultra must be his motto: he must go from strength to strength untill he appeare be=fore the Lord in Sion. And that because, he is leaving his abode in this world but an im=perfect pilgrime. he is not what, he is not where he should be … [There are those who] ‘looke behind them, that turne their face in the day of battell, & quite give over Gods husbandry’, [those] ‘that forget their first love who though they forsake not the plough yet are they idle companions that do the worke of the Lord negligently … [For them] it had beene better never to have knowne the way of righ=teousness then that they should bee like a dog to his vomit & a sow to wallowing in the mire.
“Bred Now of Your Mud”: Land, Generation, and Maternity in Antony and Cleopatra
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Analyses of Antony and Cleopatra have long noted the dialectical opposition between Rome and Egypt, an opposition that sets up a concomitant correspondence between geography and gender. Although recent scholarship has destabilized the categories, Rome has traditionally represented the masculine—solid, controlled, bounded—while Egypt is feminine—fluid, unchecked, limitless, and thus constantly generating. Egypt in the play evokes an elemental fecundity that is spontaneous and natural at the same time that it is corrupting and degenerate, “dungy,” in Antony's words. Further, the connection between Cleopatra and Egypt is inextricable in the play; she exists in metonymic relation to her country, the word “Egypt” used no less than seven times to refer to her directly. Picking up on Janet Adelman's argument that the play constructs Cleopatra as “one with her feminized kingdom as though it were her body,” this essay examines the complex idea of Egyptian earthiness in connection with Cleopatra and her fertile/infertile body by reading it in conjunction with various theories of reproduction—what the Renaissance called generation. Specifically, I seek to show how the trope of spontaneous generation allows Shakespeare to expand his interrogation of procreation in the play, blurring gender boundaries as he does so.
Ovid, Lucretius, and the Grounded Goddess in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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In the sticky, sweet, and sweaty world in which Shakespeare situates his Venus and Adonis, something has gone awry. According to Venus, “Nature” is “at strife” with herself for having made Adonis. By “Nature” Venus is, of course, referring to herself. Compared to the Venus of book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses—a goddess who makes men and women fall in love, who brings stone to life, and whose magical doves transport her anywhere she wishes to go—Shakespeare's Venus is, by comparison, a much more natural being. A creature of the senses, most especially smell, Shakespeare's Venus does not so much manipulate the natural world as bond with it. She experiences heightened, animal-like sensibilities that allow her to commune with Adonis's horse and to imagine herself as the earthbound and hunted Wat the Hare.
But why would Shakespeare strip Ovid's goddess of her supernatural powers and drive her so literally down to earth? The answer, I would suggest, is that Venus and Adonis traces its ancestry not only to Ovid's Metamorphoses but also to Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. Consider the powerful invocation to Venus with which Lucretius begins his great philosophical poem on “the nature of things”: “Venus, power of life, it is you who beneath the sky's sliding stars inspirit the ship-bearing sea, inspirit the productive land.
Getting Past the Ellipsis: The Spirit and Urania in Paradise Lost
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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In John Shawcross's book The Development of Milton's Thought: Law, Religion, and Government, he quotes that famous phrase from Milton, “fit audience, though few.” I was brought up short while reading because this quotation does not include an ellipsis. Can even Shawcross nod? I was reassured when I realized that he had not cited book and line numbers for the quotation; he was simply quoting an oft-used phrase rather than Paradise Lost itself. I thus felt better about John, but continued to be troubled by the broader implications of “fit audience … though few,” with or without the ellipsis. Here I shall argue that the ellipsis eliminates a central element, in the line and the poetic sentence and in terms of Milton's own concerns about the fate of his text. And what scholars so often omit by typifying Milton's audience using this phrase is the place of the ineffable Spirit of God in the communion or community of believers.
I shall dispense with the simple part first: how often is the ellipsis used, and what does it skate over? The phrase appears in the invocation to Book 7 of Paradise Lost:
Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole,
More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd
To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,
On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues;
In darkness, and with dangers compast round,
And solitude; yet not alone, while thou
Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn
Purples the East: still govern thou my Song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
(7.23–31)
Renaissance Papers 2012
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Edward Gieskes
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2012 volume opens with two essays on sexuality in Elizabethan narrative poetry: on homoeroticism in Spenser's Faerie Queene and on Shakespeare's "swerve" into Lucretian imagery in Venus and Adonis. The volume then turns to Renaissance drama and its links to the wider culture: the commodification of spirit in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare's evocation of the Acts of the Apostles in The Comedy of Errors, "summoning" in Hamlet and King Lear, discourses of procreation and generation in Antony and Cleopatra/, trade and gender in John Webster's Devil's Law-Case, and an examination of street scenes in Romeo and Juliet in relation to Paul's Cross Churchyard, the hub of the London bookselling market in the early modern period. The volume closes with essays on seventeenth-century literature and literary culture: on the "puritan logic" of the elder Andrew Marvell in his famous son's poem "To His Coy Mistress," on the "sociable lexicography" of a Royalist polymath attempting to reconcile with the English Commonwealth, and on the underestimated roles of Urania in Milton's Paradise Lost. Contributors: David Ainsworth, Thomas W. Dabbs, Sonya Freeman Loftis, Russell Hugh McConnell, Robert L. Reid, Amrita Sen, Susan C. Staub, Emily Stockard, Nathan Stogdill, Christina A. Taormina, Emma Annette Wilson. Andrew Shifflett and Edward Gieskes are Associate Professors of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Antipholus and the Exorcists: The Acts of the Apostles in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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In act 4 of The Comedy of Errors, Adriana, in response to her husband's wildly erratic behaviour, recruits one Doctor Pinch to cure his apparent madness. Antipholus of Ephesus is of course not really mad at all, but understandably frustrated and confused with the events of the day, which have seen him locked out of his own house and accused of failing to pay for valuables that he actually never received, thanks to a series of misunderstandings involving his identical twin, Antipholus of Syracuse. When Antipholus of Ephesus refuses to cooperate with his wife's well-intentioned intervention, Doctor Pinch attempts an exorcism to drive away the demons which he supposes to possess him:
I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers
And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!
Of course, Pinch's attempted exorcism fails, because there is no Satan to exorcise, and Antipholus becomes so angry that Adriana has him forcibly bound and taken away in Pinch's custody. In a later scene a messenger reports that Antipholus and his servant Dromio have gnawed through their bonds and escaped and then captured and tormented the hapless Doctor Pinch, burning off his beard “with brands of fire,” putting it out again with “Great pails of puddled mire,” and then preaching patience to him while cutting him with scissors and concludes that “unless you send some present help, / Between them they will kill the conjurer” (5.1.172, 74–76, 177–78).
“An Heap Is Form'd into an Alphabet”: Thomas Blount's Sociable Lexicography
- Edited by Andrew Shifflett, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Edward Gieskes, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
- With contributions by David Ainsworth , Thomas W. Dabbs , Sonya Freeman Loftis , Russell Hugh McConnell , Robert L. Reid , Amrita Sen , Susan C. Staub , Emily Stockard , Nathan Stogdill , Christina A. Taormina and Emma Annette Wilson
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In the criticism of the last thirty years, the consensus has been that the English Civil War was fought on the battlefield and on the page. Titles such as Writing the English Republic, Literature and Revolution, Literature and Dissent, Literature and Politics, and Poetry and Allegiance urge that politics and literature were inextricable in mid-century England. And, when talking about the English Civil War, when we say “political” we mean “partisan.” Lucasta, we have learned, is a royalist rallying cry and Paradise Lost a “Republican epic.” In these contentious times, the act of taking up the pen was a partisan one. But while much attention has been given to the expressions of partisanship, much less has been given to the concepts of sociability that marked its borders. While the violent disruptions of the English Civil War certainly created a culture of divisiveness, they also created an alternative culture increasingly attentive to the advantages of adaptability. Recent work on literary form in the period suggests that, far from sites of stable partisan expression, literary genres were inherently flexible spaces that lent themselves to experimentation not conflict. Lyric's association with “verses” or “turnings,” romance's many reversals and transformations, and the essay's function as a genre of “attempts” provided authors opportunities to explore and enact strategies of “flexibleness.” In this essay, I would like to consider this “flexibleness” as it appears in an unlikely place: the English vernacular dictionary.