Baudelaire Judged by his Contemporaries (1845-1867).

The Lunacy Commissioners and the East London Guardians, 1845-1867.

The social history of insanity has proved a seductive paradigm for students of the management of the dependent poor in nineteenth-century England. Largely through Andrew Scull's work, the insane have been perceived as "casualties" of class and gender power relations during the transformation from paternalistic laissez-faire rural economy into an industrialized capitalist state.' While the Eliza...

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

William Ford Robertson (1867-1923): his study of neuroglia.

THE PRESENCE of a supporting tissue within the central nervous system was first demonstrated by Keuffel in 1811,1 when he showed a definite meshwork left in crosssections of spinal cord after the nervous tissue had been brushed out. He interpreted this as representing prolongations of the pia mater. Arnold in 18452 and Virchow3 in the following year both described a granular ground substance wh...

A Synopsis of the Book Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers

Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. By 1955 computers produced by companies such as Ferranti, English Electric, Elliott Brothers and the British Tabulating Machine Co. had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his conte...

morality and literature (charles dickens and his english contemporaries)

examiningg the lilemry works of charls diceens, william makepmce thacktrqy, george elliot and thomas harq)•, the a11thor produces a momic of the victorimr morality in 19th centery e11gla11d. the author comes to tbe concluion that the viaorian age was not as pnritan as it is usually imagined and tlu moral problems that bumankind deals with in the cosrse of its developmml art in their e.mnce 1111...