Eccentricity
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Eccentricity Or A Check To Censoriousness
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Author : James Kendall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Eccentricity Or A Check To Censoriousness written by James Kendall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Character categories.
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth Century Paris
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Author : Miranda Gill
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-01-15
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth Century Paris written by Miranda Gill and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.
Science And Eccentricity
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Author : Victoria Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Science And Eccentricity written by Victoria Carroll and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Science categories.
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
In And Out
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Author : Sophie Aymes-Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
In And Out written by Sophie Aymes-Stokes and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with History categories.
The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English “character”. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideological constructs; the structural need for variation and divergence within accepted social norms; the paradoxical status of the eccentric as outsider – when eccentricity is transgressive and alienating – and as insider – eccentricity as socially acceptable deviation. Fundamentally eccentricity is a normative notion: being ex-centred enables eccentrics to delineate and negotiate boundaries between the margins and the centre, the canon and the norm. The contributors question the links between eccentricity, diversity and originality; the value of individual experience and character; and as a corollary, the struggle to retain individuality against increasing standardization, commoditisation and channelling within the normative discourse of normality. Eccentricity as display and performance is also tackled in several chapters, which focus on reception, image and (self)-representation, exhibition and voyeurism.
On The Perturbations Of Small Eccentricity Satellites
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Author : Theodore L. Felsentreger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
On The Perturbations Of Small Eccentricity Satellites written by Theodore L. Felsentreger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Artificial satellites categories.
Science And Eccentricity
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Author : Victoria Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-17
Science And Eccentricity written by Victoria Carroll and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with History categories.
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the 19th century understood their world. This book explores how, from the turn of the century, discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
The Portrait Of Eccentricity
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Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1991
The Portrait Of Eccentricity written by Giancarlo Maiorino and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque. In this interdisciplinary study, the term &"eccentricity&" refers to styles of playful extravagance. Maiorino focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by a critic-historian (Giorgio Vasari), on the willful artificiality of a painter (Giuseppe Arcimboldo), and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of a theorist (Gregorio Comanini). Maiorino draws subtle and persuasive connections between the images he discusses and the grotesque &"face&" of sixteenth-century poetics and rhetoric. He sets the mannerist and the grotesque against the philosophical seriousness of Renaissance humanism, interpreting them as a celebration of the ludic and fantastic possibilities of art itself. Aiming at pleasure rather than instruction, this art plays on the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the credible and the impossible, taking delight in parody, excess, disjunction, and exaggeration.
Study Of Effect Of A Non Newtonian Oil On Friction And Eccentricity Ratio Of A Plain Journal Bearing
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Author : G. B. DuBois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Study Of Effect Of A Non Newtonian Oil On Friction And Eccentricity Ratio Of A Plain Journal Bearing written by G. B. DuBois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Lubricating oils categories.
Eccentricity A Novel
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Author : Louisa MacNally
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1820
Eccentricity A Novel written by Louisa MacNally and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1820 with categories.
Influence Of Solar Radiation Pressure On Orbital Eccentricity Of A Gravity Gradient Oriented Lenticular Satellite
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Author : William M. Adams (Jr)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Influence Of Solar Radiation Pressure On Orbital Eccentricity Of A Gravity Gradient Oriented Lenticular Satellite written by William M. Adams (Jr) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Radiation categories.