One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott,The Hero of the Waverley Novelsis a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the ...entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive hero"--the protagonist who is acted upon by outside forces--he shows how Scott became such a powerful influence for nineteenth-century literature and history. Welsh has updated his book with an essay on history and revolution inOld Mortality, another on repression and the social contract in the novels, and an afterword on the contrast of styles.
Originally published in 1993.
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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon ...the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive hero"--the protagonist who is acted upon by outside forces--he shows how Scott became such a powerful influence for nineteenth-century literature and history. Welsh has updated his book with an essay on history and revolution in Old Mortality, another on repression and the social contract in the novels, and an afterword on the contrast of styles.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The soul or spirit has no materiality. One's mind is not the same as one's brain, nor is heaven the same as earth. Thought and consciousness of any kind dwell in the individual's body and evidently ...die with the body. Almost all the world's religions, past and present, rely on the invisibility of psyche, spiritus, menos, mens, animus, or anima to contend that some form of consciousness departs from that body after death and resides somewhere above or below the familiar surface of this earth. Yet, subsequently, the soul gains visibility and other indications of materiality, even if most people still living on earth, including direct descendants of the deceased, never witness this phenomenon and have taken it on faith. Perhaps it helps to joke about it: believers and unbelievers alike enjoy generic cartoons depicting souls in heaven and sometimes God also, in long white gowns and with feet in the clouds. Seeing is believing, as they say.
Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last ...weeks of the nineteenth century. Only by going public with his theory--that dreams manifest hidden wishes--did Freud establish a position to defend and embark upon a career. That position and career have been among the most influential in this century.
Focusing on Shakespeare'sHamletas foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and ...critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situatesHamletwithin the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in itself. Welsh also reminds us that the mourning of a son for his father may not always be sincere. This book relates the problem of dubious mourning to Hamlet's ascendancy as an icon of Western culture, which began late in the eighteenth century, a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress.
Welsh reveals how Hamlet inspired some of the greatest practitioners of modernity's quintessential literary form, the novel. Goethe'sWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Scott'sRedgauntlet, Dickens'sGreat Expectations, Melville'sPierre, and Joyce'sUlyssesall enhance our understanding of the play while illustrating a trend in which Hamlet ultimately becomes a model of intense consciousness. Arguing that modern consciousness mourns for the past, even as it pretends to be free of it, Welsh offers a compelling explanation of why Hamlet remains marvelously attractive to this day.
The fabrication of high-hardness non-hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) via standard magnetron sputtering (MS) is often hindered by the low sputtering yields and ionisation rates of carbon, ...therefore investigations into pulsed alternatives of MS, else sputtered species post-ionisation methods, are of particular interest. This work focuses on investigating the influence of pulsed-direct current MS (pDCMS), high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and their microwave plasma-assisted (MA-pDCMS, MA-HiPIMS) variants on the properties of the fabricated DLC films. Two setups were used for the pDCMS- and HiPIMS-based methods, respectively. The films were characterised using Raman spectroscopy, nanoindentation, X-ray reflectometry and scanning electron microscopy, where the pDCMS-produced films were additionally characterised by film-stress measurements. Moreover, in situ time-resolved Langmuir probe plasma analysis was performed under HiPIMS and MA-HiPIMS conditions to analyse the influence of the magnetron and microwave plasmas on one another. For both DCMS- and HiPIMS-based procedures, it was found that the addition of microwave plasma did not facilitate attaining hardnesses beyond 30 GPa, however, it did enable modifying the morphology of the films. Furthermore, this study shows the potential of synchronised sputtering with substrate biasing, as well as the importance of microwave plasma source positioning in relation to the substrate.
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•DLC films produced via pulsed magnetron sputtering and microwave plasma-assisted methods.•In situ plasma diagnostics were used to study magnetron-microwave plasma interactions.•Maximum DLC film hardness did not significantly exceed 30 GPa.•Microwave plasma caused DLC film surface morphology modifications.•Substrate biasing and microwave plasma source positioning affect DLC film tunability.
We present source design and process results of a linearly scalable ribbon ion beam for modifying materials by an ion implantation technique. Our source technology enables beam currents up to 30 ...mA/cm2 and ion implant energies up to 60keV enabling economically viable large format and high throughput processing. In this paper, we demonstrate application of this ion source towards the production of glass and sapphire substrates with durable broadband anti‐reflection surfaces with reflectance <0.5% in the visible spectra. In addition, the anti‐reflection surface is shown to remain after subsequent tempering and chemical strengthening processes.
There are an awful lot of stories out there that treat happiness as an experience, as put off to the end, or as both. So let us review two famous, distant, but related narratives of Western ...literature, each with a remarkable geometry of its own even though they putatively tell the same story: Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses. When Henry James associates his trade with drawing circles, he invokes more than two millennia of studying Euclidean geometry in the classroom. He doesn't insist on proof. The artist resorts to fiction, "a geometry of this own"; nevertheless he or she customarily envisions, within the artificial spatial and temporal confinement of the action, a sort of Q.E.D.: Quod erat demonstrandum. Whatever individual readers of Ulysses conclude about its treatment of happiness, however, it will be clear that Joyce does not subscribe to the convention (or religion) of living happily ever after. As Declan Kiberd argues at length, Ulysses is about "the reality of ordinary people's daily rounds" (2009: 10). Adapted from the source document.
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