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This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic
poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It
focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron,
Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon,
published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De
Quincey, and others. It situates these within the context of the
development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s.
Starting with Johnson, Boswell, and female collective Lives, it
looks at how the market success of biography was built on its
representation and publication of domestic life. In the 1820s and
30s biographers 'domesticated' Byron, Shelley, and other poets by
situating them at home, opening up their (often scandalous) private
lives to view, and bringing readers into intimate contact with
greatness.
Biography was an influential transmitter of the myth of 'the
Romantic poet', as the self-creating, masculine genius, but it also
posed one of the first important challenges to that myth, by
revealing failures in domestic responsibility that were often seen
as indicative of these writers' inattention to the needs of the
reader. The Domestication of Genius is the most comprehensive
account to date of the shaping of the Romantic poets by biography
in the nineteenth-century.
Written in a lively and accessible style, it casts new light on the
literary culture of the 1830s and the transition between Romantic
and Victorian conceptions of authorship. It offers a powerful
re-evaluation of Romantic literary biography, of major biographers
of the period, and of the posthumous reputations of the Romantic
poets.
Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and
important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This
innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport
coaching research, examining the often implicit links between
research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions.
Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary
accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk
over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents
an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on
critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and
emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of
thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case
study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical
realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and
accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge
promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach
education and development practices. Sport Coaching Research and
Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is
fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports
coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or
sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.
A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of
London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives;
biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to
long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this
volume as examples of 'writing lives together': British life
writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins
together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this
book range over published and unpublished material from the late
eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography,
auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and
directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary,
practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain
their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the
lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We
conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet,
Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736-1819) and his family, in
a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the
collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in
theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives
might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time,
across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Life Writing.
A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of
London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives;
biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to
long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this
volume as examples of 'writing lives together': British life
writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins
together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this
book range over published and unpublished material from the late
eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography,
auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and
directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary,
practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain
their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the
lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We
conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet,
Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736-1819) and his family, in
a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the
collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in
theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives
might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time,
across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Life Writing.
Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and
important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This
innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport
coaching research, examining the often implicit links between
research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions.
Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary
accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk
over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents
an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on
critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and
emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of
thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case
study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical
realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and
accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge
promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach
education and development practices. Sport Coaching Research and
Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is
fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports
coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or
sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.
This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in
smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful
theorizing. Subjects covered include:
* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to
small firms
* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business
context, from formal standards to Total Quality Management
* interviews with a selected sample of over 150
owner-managers
* detailed case studies of small firms
* analysis of self-generated quality strategies
* the variety of formal methods of quality control.
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