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... iu m he had invented, W illiam Henry Fox Talbot calls photography "n e w proof o f the value o f the inductive m eth o d s o f m o d e rn science" ("A c c o u n t" 25). S u b se q u e nt critica l discu ssio n s have emphasized th a t photography, in itia lly heralded as a triu m p h o f the em...

... by the way in which they were physically folded into the lives of their owners. 13The relatively sturdy calotype could be passed from hand to hand, or sent easily through the mail; the correspondence of W. H. Fox Talbot, who invent­ ed the calotype process, is lively w ith the excitement o f those who had...

... d nam e talbott (line 3, and Talbotte, line 30) may be familiar to readers of Chaucer; am idst the thro n g that pursues the fox at the en d o f the N un s Priest s Tale axe three dogs nam ed Colle, Talbot and G erland.8 In Chaucer, however, Talbot is the nam e of a particular dog, not o f...

... casts, fo r exam ple, like Fox Talbot's old m anuscripts, books, and view s o f a weather-beaten O xford, affirm not m erely th e ir photographer's fondness fo r old things, but the camera's potential fo r forging links w ith a specifically im agined past.3 And photography's narrative o f the past...

... the w o rld o f objects. W oolf's verbal engagem ent w ith this anachronistic and ontolog ica lly distinct fo rm o f photography recalls its e tym o lo g y ("lig h t w ritin g as w ell as the earliest "p ho to g e n ic drawings," to b o rro w the phrase used in itia lly by W illiam Henry Fox Talbot...

... British attitude toward French culture and manners. Douglas Grant,James Thom son s early twentieth-century biographer, char­ acterizes a stereotypically prejudiced attitude toward France when he describes Thom son s reaction to French culture on the occa­ sion of his accompanying Charles Talbot on the G...

... their structure. It would have been illogical and 84 English Language Notes confusing for the playwright to begin his historical narrative with the marriage of Henry and Margaret (where Part //opens), and Shakespeare seems purposefully to have telescoped all the material on the war with France and Talbot...

... relations. The im portant but relatively neglected subgenre o f w orks explored in these pages was born, not w ith the co n ve ntio n a lly cited The Pencil o f N a tu re by Henry Fox Talbot in 1844, b u t w ith the p riv a te ly p u b lish e d a lb u m P h o to ­ graphs o f B ritish A lgae by Anna A tkins...

... or traumatic injury” ( Talbot, “Addicts Next Door” ). 35 Herzberg, “Entitled to Addiction?” On the issue of racial bias in medical understandings of pain, see Sabin, “How We Fail Black Patients in Pain” ; and Hoffman et al., “Racial Bias.” 36 On the challenge of admission to hospitals...

... to save a m an from drowning, probably m ade a stronger impression on George Eliot. In 1856, George Eliot reviewed the recently published novel Young Singleton by Talbot Gwynne (pseudonym for Josepha H eath Galston) for h e r article Belles Lettres in The Westminster Review. Having probably read, in h...

... hagiographical and Marian imagery, reliquary pen­ dants, and other objects.17The wealthiest, like John Baret o f Bury Saint Edmunds o r Nicholas Talbot of Berkhamsted, suggest that consum ption was deeply influenced by devotion: In 1501 Talbot left "a relic contained in a pendant decorated w ith figures o f Our...

..., organized byJo h n M. Hill and William Askins. I wish to express my thanks to Professor Askins and Pro­ fessor Hill for inviting me to participate in their panel. 1Two of the most influential scholars who helped to establish this older critical consensus were D. W. Robertson,Jr. and E. Talbot Donaldson...

... so on the metrical grounds that such a change would improve the alliteration of the line, thus moving Beowulf s grasp from the shoulder of Grendel s mother to her hair; see Fur­ ther Thoughts on Beowulf, line 1537a: Gefengfa befeaxle, Notes and Queries ns. 48 (2001): 3-4. E. Talbot Donaldson...

... the im pulse tow ards the invention o f photography from its very beginnings. The firs t use o f " in s ta n t" in relatio n to p h o to g ra p h y seem s to have occurred, a p p ro p ria te ly enough, in Fox Talbot's 1839 paper, "S om e A ccount o f the A rt o f Photogenic Drawing," w here he describes...

... and Renaissance Literature in Honor o f E. Talbot Donaldson (Norman: Pilgrim Press, 1982), 25-50. Steven Justice explores why Robertson fell out of favor in "W ho Stole Robertson?" PMLA 124 (2009): 609-15. See particularly 613-14, in which Justice discusses how Robertson mistakenly reads the teeth...

... you clipped. (Ælfric, Ælfrics Grammatik, 121-22.) 12 T h e W anderer, trans. E. Talbot D onaldson, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, ed. M. H. A bram s et al., 6th ed. (New York: N orton, 1993) 68-70; reference from 69. 13 Translations are m ine unless otherw ise noted. 14 F or the form...

... m ­ era's special ap titud e , in W illia m H. Fox Talbot's w o rd s, fo r recording "th e inju rie s o f tim e " (qtd. in Sontag, 69) he also, in collaboration w ith Coburn, pro­ posed such an aptitude as fundam ental to his ow n life and career. A nother o f those ubiquitous closed doors (Figure...