Nineteenth-century Studies Research Articles

Imagination in Rousseau and Wordsworth

HE POETRY of William Wordsworth has generally been reregarded with indifference in France, even during the romantic period when French poets and critics were eagerly looking abroad for new literary models. In a review of Legouis' biography of Wordsworth, one of the few nineteenth-century studies of Wordsworth in French, the critic Joseph Texte mentioned the possibility of un irremediable divorce between le genie de Wordsworth et notre gout frangais: Nous aimons, avouons-le, a retrouver dans les vers d'un poete, l'echo de ses souffrances, du moins intellectuelles, et de ses malheurs, fussent-ils imaginaires.' Texte's polite distaste for what he calls Wordsworth's optimisme ardent echoes at the end of the nineteenth century Madame de Stael's prediction in 1800: A l'epoque ou nous vivons, la melancolie est la veritable inspiration du talent: qui ne se sent pas atteint par ce sentiment, ne peut pretendre a une grande gloire comme ecrivain; c'est a ce prix qu'elle est achetee.2 The comments of Madame de Stael and Texte, taken together, suggest the persistent bias in nineteenth-century France toward a poetry of personal suffering and melancholy. The belief of French poets and critics-particularly strong in the first decade of French romanticismthat poetry should be the confession of melancholy emotion has been traced to the influence of Rousseau and other preromantic prose writers like Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chateaubriand, and Madame de Stael. Margaret Gilman cites this influence to explain why the French romantics were so much less interested than their English contemporaries in creative imagination, so uninvolved in Wordsworth's chief poetic concern with the growth and operation of the poetic

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The Bible on the Childhood of Jesus. By L. Hermans. Christianity according to Paul. By Michel Bouttier. The Collection. By Keith F. Nickle. The Early Church. By W. H. C. Frend. St Augustine: The Catholic and Manichaean Ways of Life. Translated by D. A. and I. J. Gallagher. Thomae de Vio Cardinalis Caietani O.P. Commentaria in libros Aristotelis, De Anima, Liber III. Editionem curaverunt Guy Picard, s.j., Gilles Pelland, s.j. Readings in Church History. Volume III. The Modern Era, 1789 to the Present. Edited by Colman J. Barry, o.s.b. Religious Controversies of the Nineteenth Century: Selected Documents. Edited by A. O. J. Cockshut. F. D. Maurice and Company. Nineteenth Century Studies. By Alec R. Vidler. Hidden God. How do we know that God exists? By Fernand van Steenberghen. Translated by Theodore Crowley, o.f.m. A Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy. By Bernard Wuellner, s.j. An Interior Metaphysics. The Philosophical Synthesis of Pierre Scheuer, s.j. By Daniel J. Shine, s.j. Philosophy of Natural Science. By Carl G. Hempel. Issues in Science and Religion. By Ian G. Barbour. The Moving Image. By G. D. Yarnold. The Anticipation of Nature. By Rom Harre.

Kansas University Slang: A New Generation

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, the developing concern for the oral as opposed to the written tradition and the romantic attachment to the folk and their idiom resulted in a host of minor but scholarly studies of slang. The remarkable vitality of common speech attracted the attention of both anthropologists and poets. E. B. Tylor, one of the founders of modern anthropology, felt that an analysis of the evolution of slang would reveal those general laws common to the growth of all languages; Walt Whitman, thirty years after the first publication of Leaves of Grass, revealed his lifetime preoccupation with American speech in a meaty article covering many of the diverse types of slang, ranging from state soubriquets to hashhouse jargon.' The variety of Whitman's examples perhaps indicates the increased awareness of the great number of slang vocabularies employed by different social and occupational groups. The excitement generated by the active recording of American slang is clearly evidenced in the growing number of studies which concentrated upon the characteristic diction of the American undergraduate. As early as 185 I, B. H. Hall presented a compendium of college expressions in use in the New England area.2 Hall's collection is significant because, though primarily a study of the full range of university experiences, it does contain an abundant amount of student slang. The traditional dismissal of slang as a short-lived linguistic phenomenon is belied by the continuing currency of many of Hall's words and phrases, for example, cram, crib, cut, flunk, and grind. Perhaps the most scholarly nineteenth-century study of student slang was made by Willard C. Gore in I895.3 Gore attempted to find etymological origins, determine morphological changes, and describe the figurative direction of university expressions. Included in Gore's list are: bone, cram, crib, grind, and loaded. At the turn of the century, the most ambitious project for the collection of American college slang was undertaken by some members

The Roman Surveyors

It is curious that so little has been written in English about the Roman land surveyors and their work. Most of the nineteenth-century study of the subject was carried out by German scholars. In 1812 Niebuhr stressed the importance of the extant writings of the agrimensores and suggested that field-work in Italy would contribute to our understanding of them. In 1833 a Dane, Captain Falbe, noticed that the squares into which the land round Carthage was divided had sides corresponding to 2,400 feet and thus equalled a normal centuria. The standard edition of the agrimensores, edited by Blume, Lachmann, and others, appeared in 1848 and 1852. Mommsen contributed to this work, and he and other German scholars extended the study of Roman surveying. Before the First World War it was a Swede, Thulin, who furthered research on the ancient writings. Apart from that in German the bulk of the work on the subject is in Italian.

Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold by Basil Willey

Book Review| October 01 1950 Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold by Basil Willey Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold. By Willey, Basil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Pp. viii, 288. $4.00.. P. F. Baum P. F. Baum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (4): 551–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-49-4-551a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation P. F. Baum; Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold by Basil Willey. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1950; 49 (4): 551–552. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-49-4-551a Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press1950 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

English Musical Life—A Symposium (V)

From the middle of the nineteenth century studies in the History of Music developed on a scholarly basis all over Europe. The purely aæthetic approach to works of art gave way, with the development of historical methods, to the historical approach which included aesthetic appreciation within itself and placed it on a sound basis. Works of remote periods were no longer judged by merely contemporary standards. They were brought into the right context and the range of accessible music immeasurably enlarged.

The Present State of Nineteenth-Century Studies in German Literature

(1941). The Present State of Nineteenth-Century Studies in German Literature. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 278-285.

Prices of Wheat and Commodity Price Indexes for England, 1259-1930

IT is now many years since the publication of Wiebe's index of commodity prices in England for the period I50I-I702. Nineteenth-century studies of prices have latterly been carried back as far as I779, but there remains a substantial gap between the index based on Rogers' materials and the modern indexes. Recent developments of statistical method have disclosed deficiencies in the computations of Wiebe, so that we are now in position to make a number of important corrections in his figures, by interpolation of missing items. The theory of interpolation, too, suggests the possibility of connecting the earlier with the later series of index numbers by using the movements of wheat prices as the basis of interpolation. It has seemed best not to carry out the process of interpolation explicitly, but the effect is secured by the reduction of the various series to a common base and by the use of the series of wheat prices to supply the general character of movement in the period 1703-78. It thus becomes possible to establish the broader facts in regard to prices over a long historical period, and though results are necessarily tentative, they are certainly significant.

Three Martyrs of Science of the Nineteenth Century Studies from the Lives of Livingstone, Gordon, and Patterson

Three Martyrs of Science of the Nineteenth Century Studies from the Lives of Livingstone, Gordon, and Patterson