William Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 306409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8022-8915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Proof-Theoretic Validity isn’t Intuitionistic; So What
Several recent results bring into focus the superintuitionistic nature of most notions of proof-theoretic validity, but little work has been done evaluating the consequences of these results. Proof-theoretic validity claims to offer a formal explication of how inferences follow from the definitions of logic connectives (which are defined by their introduction rules). This paper explores whether the new results undermine this claim. It is argued t…
English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and proper females
There was a debate about women in the 1790s, addressing their nature, their capacities and their roles. These issues had become increasingly topical in the course of the eighteenth century, in medical and educational writings, in periodical essays from the Tatler onwards, in prose fiction and in the popular genre of conduct literature giving advice to women about proper behaviour. Increasingly women themselves contributed to the debate as a conse…
On the difficulty of discovering mathematical proofs
An account of mathematical understanding should account for the differences between theorems whose proofs are “easy” to discover, and those whose proofs are difficult to discover. Though Hilbert seems to have created proof theory with the idea that it would address this kind of “discovermental complexity”, much more attention has been paid to the lengths of proofs, a measure of the difficulty of verifying of a given formal object that it is a pro…
Mining at the crossroads: Sectoral diversification to safeguard sustainable mining
Representations of the Social Order in The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785-1815
This essay studies the issues of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1785 to 1715, selecting those years because of the common view that society and a class system crystalized following the French Revolution. Rather than view society from an economist's or a Marxist's perspective, I am concerned with how London society, during this period, viewed itself. The data demonstrate different ranks, although what constitutes a gentleman remains flexible, with …
Gentlemanly Masculinities as Represented by the Late Georgian Gentleman's Magazine
Almost half of the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine 1785–1815 consisted of readers’ contributions in the form of letters and obituaries, making it an excellent source for representations of elite masculinities. They convey abundant evidence of the social and cultural priority of gentlemen over gentlewomen, and contrary to some recent assertions by scholars furnish no evidence of a ‘gender panic’ or retreat from ‘gender play’. They imply no overm…
Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History
1University of Huddersfield Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History Jonathan Clark London Atlantic Books 2003 xiv + 336 £ 25
Empiricism and History
1University of Huddersfield Empiricism and History Stephen Davies Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2003 163 Paperback£11.99
Is Mill's ‘liberal’ feminism ‘masculinist
John Stuart Mill is examined as a test case of the charge levelled by some feminist critics that liberal ideology is essentially ‘masculinist’. This charge is rejected on the grounds that it misinterprets Mill, fails to recognize the variety and flexibility of liberal ideology, and falsely assumes unchanging concepts of masculinity and femininity. An older tradition regards this representative liberal as a ‘feminine philosopher’, and it can be ar…
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his work from the task of living responsibly -- What a person is shows up in what a person does -- ri…
The Gender of the Place: Building and Landscape in Women-Authored Texts in England of the 1790s
The paper surveys almost fifty women-authored texts of the 1790s, asking what they reveal about the gendering of space in elite houses, about the meaning of buildings and landscapes for women and about women's aesthetic preferences. They imply that elite houses had largely ungendered public, private and intermediate spaces. Castles had negative meanings for women, but not ‘olden time’ houses; there was some disapproval of exclusionary landscapes …
History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives
Mozart, Carl Thomas
Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang
Shorter notice. Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research. JR Hall
Journal Article Shorter notice. Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research. JR Hall Get access W Stafford W Stafford University of Huddersfield, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Page 671, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.671 Published: 01 June 2000
Shall We Take the Linguistic Turn? British Radicalism in the Era of the French Revolution
Intertextual war: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh . By Steven Blakemore. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-8386-3751-5. £32. Radical expression: political language, ritual, and symbol in England, 1790–1850 . By James Epstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi+233. ISBN 0-19-506550-6. £30. Tom Paine: a political life . By …
How can a paradigmatic liberal call himself a socialist? The case of John Stuart Mill
This article examines the puzzle that while Mill called himself an advanced liberal and a socialist, most 20th century commentators have thought that he was not a socialist and could not be because the two ideologies conflict. It argues that the refusal to take Mill at his word is anachronistic, and contests the view that he retreated from socialism in his last years. It compares him with major varieties of socialist ideology, concluding that he …
Narratives of Women: English Feminists of the 1790s
Did ‘feminist’ writers of the 1790s produce narratives in which women could find self‐respect and authenticity? Before this ‘positive’ endeavour came the ‘negative’ task of constructing narratives revealing women’s oppression. More positive images may be found in narratives which relate women to political discourses and events. But the main type of narrative pointing the way towards authentic selfhood for women, free from the prisonhouse of gende…
Teaching and Assessing Oral Skills as Democratic Practice
Teaching and assessing oral skills is important, but relatively novel in the discipline of Political Studies; this article defends the practice, and outlines the ‘nuts and bolts’ of one methodology for doing it. Preliminary explanation in lectures, practice in seminars, assessment, feedback and self-assessment are all covered and the paperwork illustrated. The methodology is based in part on Habermas's theory of ‘communicative competence’ and the…
Ferdinand Tönnies: A Candidate for the Canon
Tönnies' classic work develops an account of contrasted models of society and associated personality types: a rational choice one and a communitarian one. There is a related philosophy of history, torn between nostalgia and modernity. He looks forward to a resolution of these oppositions which is socialist and loosely Marxist while rejecting the command economy and historical inevitability. These themes are saturated with ideas of gender, which a…
Story time
Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830
The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of social debate had been affected by intellectual develo…
Religion and the doctrine of nationalism in England at the time of the French revolution and Napoleonic wars
The Maxim my country right or wrong is unquestionably difficult and perhaps impossible to justify; certainly no Christian can easily regard the nation as the supreme object of loyalty. Yet during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars intensive efforts were made in press and pulpit, through the courts and through informal social pressure, to enhance patriotism. Patriotism almost certainly became stronger and more widely diffused. How did the denom…
Absences
Around you, your house
How can a paradigmatic liberal call himself a socialist? The case of John Stuart Mill
This article examines the puzzle that while Mill called himself an advanced liberal and a socialist, most 20th century commentators have thought that he was not a socialist and could not be because the two ideologies conflict. It argues that the refusal to take Mill at his word is anachronistic, and contests the view that he retreated from socialism in his last years. It compares him with major varieties of socialist ideology, concluding that he …
Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History
1University of Huddersfield Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History Jonathan Clark London Atlantic Books 2003 xiv + 336 £ 25
Gentlemanly Masculinities as Represented by the Late Georgian Gentleman's Magazine
Almost half of the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine 1785–1815 consisted of readers’ contributions in the form of letters and obituaries, making it an excellent source for representations of elite masculinities. They convey abundant evidence of the social and cultural priority of gentlemen over gentlewomen, and contrary to some recent assertions by scholars furnish no evidence of a ‘gender panic’ or retreat from ‘gender play’. They imply no overm…
Shall We Take the Linguistic Turn? British Radicalism in the Era of the French Revolution
Intertextual war: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh . By Steven Blakemore. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-8386-3751-5. £32. Radical expression: political language, ritual, and symbol in England, 1790–1850 . By James Epstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi+233. ISBN 0-19-506550-6. £30. Tom Paine: a political life . By …
Mining at the crossroads: Sectoral diversification to safeguard sustainable mining
Teaching and Assessing Oral Skills as Democratic Practice
Teaching and assessing oral skills is important, but relatively novel in the discipline of Political Studies; this article defends the practice, and outlines the ‘nuts and bolts’ of one methodology for doing it. Preliminary explanation in lectures, practice in seminars, assessment, feedback and self-assessment are all covered and the paperwork illustrated. The methodology is based in part on Habermas's theory of ‘communicative competence’ and the…
Ferdinand Tönnies: A Candidate for the Canon
Tönnies' classic work develops an account of contrasted models of society and associated personality types: a rational choice one and a communitarian one. There is a related philosophy of history, torn between nostalgia and modernity. He looks forward to a resolution of these oppositions which is socialist and loosely Marxist while rejecting the command economy and historical inevitability. These themes are saturated with ideas of gender, which a…
Is Mill's ‘liberal’ feminism ‘masculinist
John Stuart Mill is examined as a test case of the charge levelled by some feminist critics that liberal ideology is essentially ‘masculinist’. This charge is rejected on the grounds that it misinterprets Mill, fails to recognize the variety and flexibility of liberal ideology, and falsely assumes unchanging concepts of masculinity and femininity. An older tradition regards this representative liberal as a ‘feminine philosopher’, and it can be ar…
Frontiers of American Culture
Four Poems by William Stafford
Two Poems by William Stafford
Frontiers of American Culture
Poems
Report to Crazy Horse
Poems: Keeping a Journal, Even in Bad Times
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views Onthe Writer's Vocation
Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery
Absences
Around you, your house
Religion and the doctrine of nationalism in England at the time of the French revolution and Napoleonic wars
The Maxim my country right or wrong is unquestionably difficult and perhaps impossible to justify; certainly no Christian can easily regard the nation as the supreme object of loyalty. Yet during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars intensive efforts were made in press and pulpit, through the courts and through informal social pressure, to enhance patriotism. Patriotism almost certainly became stronger and more widely diffused. How did the denom…
Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830
The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of social debate had been affected by intellectual develo…
Story time
Ferdinand Tönnies: A Candidate for the Canon
Tönnies' classic work develops an account of contrasted models of society and associated personality types: a rational choice one and a communitarian one. There is a related philosophy of history, torn between nostalgia and modernity. He looks forward to a resolution of these oppositions which is socialist and loosely Marxist while rejecting the command economy and historical inevitability. These themes are saturated with ideas of gender, which a…
Narratives of Women: English Feminists of the 1790s
Did ‘feminist’ writers of the 1790s produce narratives in which women could find self‐respect and authenticity? Before this ‘positive’ endeavour came the ‘negative’ task of constructing narratives revealing women’s oppression. More positive images may be found in narratives which relate women to political discourses and events. But the main type of narrative pointing the way towards authentic selfhood for women, free from the prisonhouse of gende…
Teaching and Assessing Oral Skills as Democratic Practice
Teaching and assessing oral skills is important, but relatively novel in the discipline of Political Studies; this article defends the practice, and outlines the ‘nuts and bolts’ of one methodology for doing it. Preliminary explanation in lectures, practice in seminars, assessment, feedback and self-assessment are all covered and the paperwork illustrated. The methodology is based in part on Habermas's theory of ‘communicative competence’ and the…
How can a paradigmatic liberal call himself a socialist? The case of John Stuart Mill
This article examines the puzzle that while Mill called himself an advanced liberal and a socialist, most 20th century commentators have thought that he was not a socialist and could not be because the two ideologies conflict. It argues that the refusal to take Mill at his word is anachronistic, and contests the view that he retreated from socialism in his last years. It compares him with major varieties of socialist ideology, concluding that he …
Shorter notice. Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research. JR Hall
Journal Article Shorter notice. Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research. JR Hall Get access W Stafford W Stafford University of Huddersfield, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Page 671, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.671 Published: 01 June 2000
Shall We Take the Linguistic Turn? British Radicalism in the Era of the French Revolution
Intertextual war: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh . By Steven Blakemore. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-8386-3751-5. £32. Radical expression: political language, ritual, and symbol in England, 1790–1850 . By James Epstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi+233. ISBN 0-19-506550-6. £30. Tom Paine: a political life . By …
Mozart, Carl Thomas
Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang
History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his work from the task of living responsibly -- What a person is shows up in what a person does -- ri…
The Gender of the Place: Building and Landscape in Women-Authored Texts in England of the 1790s
The paper surveys almost fifty women-authored texts of the 1790s, asking what they reveal about the gendering of space in elite houses, about the meaning of buildings and landscapes for women and about women's aesthetic preferences. They imply that elite houses had largely ungendered public, private and intermediate spaces. Castles had negative meanings for women, but not ‘olden time’ houses; there was some disapproval of exclusionary landscapes …
Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History
1University of Huddersfield Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History Jonathan Clark London Atlantic Books 2003 xiv + 336 £ 25
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