Albert D Pionke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert D Pionke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Pionke |
| SIGNATURE | PIONKE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Fictionalized Firsthand Account of Victorian Naval Ritual
Recently rediscovered and previously unpublished, “Neptune’s Visit to H. M. Ship Rocket on Crossing the Line,” by then-Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Robert Francis Bailey, offers twenty-first-century readers an especially engaging introduction to a naval ritual with roots in the sixteenth century. Although crossing the line narratives were quite familiar to sailors and lay readers alike by the 1870s, this manuscript is unusual in that it attempts to norm…
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status reconstructs the unusual, at times even paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status. Contrary to the most widely accepted ideas of status—themselves most often reliant upon Max Weber’s Economy and Society and/or Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction—which identify a range of individual and collective practices designed to establish social dominance on the basis of “styl…
The Nascent Indian National Congress Canvasses Britain’s Newest Electors
“Published and Distributed on behalf of the people of India” by five of the founding regional associations of the Indian National Congress, An Appeal on Behalf of the People of India to the Electors of Great Britain and Ireland is now exceedingly rare, with only one copy recorded in WorldCat’s digital database of library catalogs. The pamphlet attempts to influence Britain’s newest and largest constituency of electors—those enfranchised by the Th…
Reconstructing an Ancient Monument to Mid-Victorian Liberalism, One Annotation at a Time
John Stuart Mill inscribed nearly 1,200 individual examples of marginalia into his personal copy of George Grote’s twelve-volume History of Greece (1846–56). Of these, roughly two-thirds are verbal annotations ranging in length from a single letter to a short paragraph. Analysis of the 136 annotations found in volumes one and two, and comparison of each page containing annotations across five editions of Grote’s History, reveal not only that Mill…
Handwritten Marginalia and Digital Search
Victorian Britain’s leading philosophical empiricist and liberal theorist, John Stuart Mill left behind a significant body of unpublished writing, in the form of handwritten marginalia within the books of his personal library. Mill Marginalia Online is an international Digital Humanities collaboration between The University of Alabama and Somerville College dedicated to producing a digital edition of this material. This ongoing project’s organic …
The Epistemological Problem of British India in Rudyard Kipling's “The Man Who Would Be King”
First published in The Phantom Rickshaw (1888), the fifth volume in A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s “Indian Railway Library” series, “The Man Who Would Be King” may be the best and is almost certainly the last story that Rudyard Kipling wrote while still living in India. It is, then, the culmination of an annus mirabilis that saw its twenty-three-year-old author publish six books, albeit short ones, and achieve widespread fame in India. He also garnered su…
I do swear”
This essay examines the widespread practice of oath-taking among England's professional classes and the anxieties such ritual performances provoked. In instances like the Tolpuddle Martyr trials, unauthorized oath-taking proved problematic for Victorian elites by virtue of its potential for censure. Yet traditionally authorized oaths, including those sworn in the realms of medicine, law, and government, could likewise incite public concern. Such …
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I do swear”
This essay examines the widespread practice of oath-taking among England's professional classes and the anxieties such ritual performances provoked. In instances like the Tolpuddle Martyr trials, unauthorized oath-taking proved problematic for Victorian elites by virtue of its potential for censure. Yet traditionally authorized oaths, including those sworn in the realms of medicine, law, and government, could likewise incite public concern. Such …
The Epistemological Problem of British India in Rudyard Kipling's “The Man Who Would Be King”
First published in The Phantom Rickshaw (1888), the fifth volume in A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s “Indian Railway Library” series, “The Man Who Would Be King” may be the best and is almost certainly the last story that Rudyard Kipling wrote while still living in India. It is, then, the culmination of an annus mirabilis that saw its twenty-three-year-old author publish six books, albeit short ones, and achieve widespread fame in India. He also garnered su…
Handwritten Marginalia and Digital Search
Victorian Britain’s leading philosophical empiricist and liberal theorist, John Stuart Mill left behind a significant body of unpublished writing, in the form of handwritten marginalia within the books of his personal library. Mill Marginalia Online is an international Digital Humanities collaboration between The University of Alabama and Somerville College dedicated to producing a digital edition of this material. This ongoing project’s organic …
Reconstructing an Ancient Monument to Mid-Victorian Liberalism, One Annotation at a Time
John Stuart Mill inscribed nearly 1,200 individual examples of marginalia into his personal copy of George Grote’s twelve-volume History of Greece (1846–56). Of these, roughly two-thirds are verbal annotations ranging in length from a single letter to a short paragraph. Analysis of the 136 annotations found in volumes one and two, and comparison of each page containing annotations across five editions of Grote’s History, reveal not only that Mill…
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status reconstructs the unusual, at times even paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status. Contrary to the most widely accepted ideas of status—themselves most often reliant upon Max Weber’s Economy and Society and/or Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction—which identify a range of individual and collective practices designed to establish social dominance on the basis of “styl…
The Nascent Indian National Congress Canvasses Britain’s Newest Electors
“Published and Distributed on behalf of the people of India” by five of the founding regional associations of the Indian National Congress, An Appeal on Behalf of the People of India to the Electors of Great Britain and Ireland is now exceedingly rare, with only one copy recorded in WorldCat’s digital database of library catalogs. The pamphlet attempts to influence Britain’s newest and largest constituency of electors—those enfranchised by the Th…
A Fictionalized Firsthand Account of Victorian Naval Ritual
Recently rediscovered and previously unpublished, “Neptune’s Visit to H. M. Ship Rocket on Crossing the Line,” by then-Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Robert Francis Bailey, offers twenty-first-century readers an especially engaging introduction to a naval ritual with roots in the sixteenth century. Although crossing the line narratives were quite familiar to sailors and lay readers alike by the 1870s, this manuscript is unusual in that it attempts to norm…
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