Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias

Lea Heiberg Madsen, ‘Medicine and Female Monstrosity in Neo-Victorian Fiction ...’

Victorian medical advances, along with Darwinian science, triggered an increasingly medicalised understanding of Human, which pervaded all spheres of 19 th century culture and came to play a crucial role in the Victorians’ perceptions of the body and mind. The medico-scientific differentiation between ‘complete’ and ‘incomplete’ subjects provided the backdrop for a wide range of pathological ca...

The Victorian home

by the Group a recognizable pattern of the pre-industrial western European family can be detected. Mr. Laslett's classic paper on the villages ofClayworth and Cogenhoe, where this was first revealed, is here, as is one on long-term trends in bastardy. There are others on parental deprivation, the history of aging and the aged, age of sexual maturity in Europe since the Middle Ages, and the hous...

The Victorian country child

Neo Personality Inventory-revised (neo Pi-r)

Paul Detrick The NEO PI-R is one of a group of closely-related objective assessment instruments (NEO Inventories) designed to measure the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality (Digman, 1990; McCrae & John, 1992). The FFM has received widespread acceptance as a valid descriptor of normal personality (Mount & Barrick, 1998), as well as an organizing framework for the prediction of job performanc...

the influence of the neo-platonic concept of poetic imagination on wordsworth’s poetry

بر اساس نظریه افلاطون در باره شعر خلاقیت هنری مورد انتقاد قرار گرفته است. نظریه کلی در مورد شعر این بود که شعر از ظواهرتقلید میکند و نه حقیقت. چون سایه ای از حقیقت است. اما با پیدایش فلسفه نو افلاطونی، انتقاتات قبلی در مورد شعر و شاعری اصلاح شد. فلوطین در کتاب انئید، اساس خلق هنری را بر محور مُثل افلاطونی قرار داد. وی باور داشت که هنر مندان در خلق آثار هنری، تحت تاثیر مُثل افلاطونی بوده و عوالمی ...