John O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4537522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theater without Theory: Comedy in the Eighteenth Century
La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought
First published in 1652–1654 and then in a new edition in 1666, the Discours politiques of the académicien Daniel de Priézac (1590–1662) have been characterized as a statement of Aristotelian politics in the service of absolutism. The aspect of interest in this article is Priézac’s hitherto unnoticed practice of quoting from La Boétie’s La Servitude volontaire. It may seem strange that a treatise so often associated with anti-tyrannical literatur…
Margaret as a Reader of French Renaissance Literature
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. The book offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don't date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and w…
States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation
This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on non-Western, non-modern cultures, the author demonstrates that the use of alcohol or other psychoactive substances is a universal across human societies, and indeed, has tended to be seen as unproblematic,…
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
Epilogue: Medieval Libraries in the Sixteenth Century: A Dream of Order and Knowledge
In 1698, the English doctor Martin Lister visited Paris. The library of the abbey of Saint-Victor was one of a number of sights he described: I see the Library of St. Victor: This most Antient Convent is the best seated of any in Paris; has very large Gardens, with shady Walks, well kept. The Library is a fair and large Gallery: It is open three days a week, and has a range of double Desks quite through the middle of it, with Seats and Convenienc…
Pantomimic Politics
Trends in Public Order Offences
M ontaigne, Sir Ralph B ankes and other E nglish readers of the E ssais
This article deals with a hitherto unknown and unpublished early modern E nglish manuscript account of M ontaigne's E ssais by S ir R alph B ankes (1631?–77) of K ingston L acy in D orset. B ankes's account covers a range of features in M ontaigne's work: crucial elements of self‐portraiture such as judgement, but also his attitude to women and doctors. These characteristics are analysed and compared first with M ontaigne's own pronouncements abo…
Wounded Artifacts: Vulnerability and Montaigne's Essais
Wounded Artifacts:Vulnerability and Montaigne's Essais John O'Brien (bio) "[C]omme j'ay trouvé Villon blessé en ses œuures, il n'y a si expert chirurgien qui le sceust penser sans apparence de cicatrice." Thus Marot in 1533, in the preface to his edition of Villon.1 While not unexpected in the sphere of humanist textual scholarship in Latin, the term "blessé" is as unusual in the vernacular as it is striking, although in context it is readily jus…
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais Cambridge Companions to Literature Hardcover
Critical Distance
Person-Centered Services and Organizational Context: Taking Stock of Working Conditions and Their Impact
Although the concept of person-centered services has gained much popularity, there are significant discrepancies in the extent to which service agencies are actually implementing it. Eight organizations, each of which was successfully providing person-centered services to at least some individuals, were examined. Some agencies were implementing the approach with significantly higher proportions of individuals receiving their services than were ot…
Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote
Labor's Troubador
At Montaigne's Table
AT MONTAIGNE'S TABLE Get access JOHN O'BRIEN JOHN O'BRIEN ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.1 Published: 01 January 2000
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections
(Mis)representing women Milan Kundera and feminism - seeing through the opposition double vision - a paradigm for reading Milan Kundera (mis)representing women/representions of violence against women
French Studies After Fifty Years
Journal Article FRENCH STUDIES AFTER FIFTY YEARS Get access MALCOLM BOWIE, MALCOLM BOWIE 1ALL SOULS COLLEGEOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN O'BRIEN JOHN O'BRIEN 2ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 385–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.4.385 Published: 01 October 199…
Reasoning with the Senses: The Humanist Imagination
The Renaissance fortunes of major treatise, De anima, have never received definitive study, no doubt principally because this task would be so dauntingly complex. Harvey, and more recently Park and Kessler, have done valuable work in surveying the range of Renaissance writing about psychology, while Cranz has dealt more specifically with the reception of De anima.1 Within De anima, short chapter on the (11.3; 427a17-430a25)2 is, one might suppose…
Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities
This paper discusses the ethics of professional use of pain as a means of changing people with severe disabilities. It states principles for selecting responses to a person who injures self or others, distingishes the professional application of pain from other occasions of pain, examines the limits of dealing with the ethics of inflicting pain from within the perspectives of professionalism and due process, and identifies some social conditions …
Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Emotions
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote
French Studies After Fifty Years
Journal Article FRENCH STUDIES AFTER FIFTY YEARS Get access MALCOLM BOWIE, MALCOLM BOWIE 1ALL SOULS COLLEGEOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN O'BRIEN JOHN O'BRIEN 2ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 385–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.4.385 Published: 01 October 199…
The Hello House Fire; Response of Alcoholics to Crisis
Analysis of responses of male psychiatric inpatients to a questionnaire indicated that those who had negative attitudes toward alcohol experienced more frequent and severe hangovers, regardless of the amounts they drank, than those who had favorable attitudes toward drinking
Assimilation Theory and Celtic Ethnicity
The Presence of the Past
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
IOWAfathers who periodically carried out "purity raids" on the brothels, while simultaneously making money from the illegal business.Although relatively few members of the ranking establishment drew direct revenues from the vice trade, prominent businessmen, office holders, and civic leaders indirectly profited because the prostitutes brought dollars and clients into the broader marketplace.Sizable towns which might have attempted to eliminate th…
A Divided Unity! Politics of N.S.W. teacher militancy since 1945
Translation, Philology and Polemic in Denys Lambin's Nicomachean Ethics of 1558
Translation, philology and polemic in Denys Lambin's Nicomachean Ethics of 1558
The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause
First published in 1987, Confederate Image examines the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War. These images helped sustain and revive identity following the collapse of the Confederacy. (Though, ironically, most were actually crafted by Northern artisans.) The book focuses on prints of the three most prominent figures of the conflict--Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson--but a…
Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Emotions
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities
This paper discusses the ethics of professional use of pain as a means of changing people with severe disabilities. It states principles for selecting responses to a person who injures self or others, distingishes the professional application of pain from other occasions of pain, examines the limits of dealing with the ethics of inflicting pain from within the perspectives of professionalism and due process, and identifies some social conditions …
Reasoning with the Senses: The Humanist Imagination
The Renaissance fortunes of major treatise, De anima, have never received definitive study, no doubt principally because this task would be so dauntingly complex. Harvey, and more recently Park and Kessler, have done valuable work in surveying the range of Renaissance writing about psychology, while Cranz has dealt more specifically with the reception of De anima.1 Within De anima, short chapter on the (11.3; 427a17-430a25)2 is, one might suppose…
Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections
(Mis)representing women Milan Kundera and feminism - seeing through the opposition double vision - a paradigm for reading Milan Kundera (mis)representing women/representions of violence against women
French Studies After Fifty Years
Journal Article FRENCH STUDIES AFTER FIFTY YEARS Get access MALCOLM BOWIE, MALCOLM BOWIE 1ALL SOULS COLLEGEOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN O'BRIEN JOHN O'BRIEN 2ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 385–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.4.385 Published: 01 October 199…
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
At Montaigne's Table
AT MONTAIGNE'S TABLE Get access JOHN O'BRIEN JOHN O'BRIEN ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.1 Published: 01 January 2000
Labor's Troubador
Person-Centered Services and Organizational Context: Taking Stock of Working Conditions and Their Impact
Although the concept of person-centered services has gained much popularity, there are significant discrepancies in the extent to which service agencies are actually implementing it. Eight organizations, each of which was successfully providing person-centered services to at least some individuals, were examined. Some agencies were implementing the approach with significantly higher proportions of individuals receiving their services than were ot…
Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote
Critical Distance
The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais Cambridge Companions to Literature Hardcover
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
Wounded Artifacts: Vulnerability and Montaigne's Essais
Wounded Artifacts:Vulnerability and Montaigne's Essais John O'Brien (bio) "[C]omme j'ay trouvé Villon blessé en ses œuures, il n'y a si expert chirurgien qui le sceust penser sans apparence de cicatrice." Thus Marot in 1533, in the preface to his edition of Villon.1 While not unexpected in the sphere of humanist textual scholarship in Latin, the term "blessé" is as unusual in the vernacular as it is striking, although in context it is readily jus…
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