Claire Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 85478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1372-1598 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Are the Structural Barriers to Planning for Later Life? A Scoping Review of the Literature
The rollback of the welfare state in countries such as the UK, coupled with population ageing, have contributed to a situation in which responsibility for older people’s wellbeing is placed more heavily on the individual. This is exemplified in the notion in popular and policy circles that individuals should plan for later life, particularly financially, and a corresponding concern that they are not doing so sufficiently. This scoping review aime…
Ringing the changes: The role of telephone communication in a helpline and befriending service targeting loneliness in older people
The drive to deliver services addressing loneliness in older people by telephone and online makes it increasingly relevant to consider how the mode of communication affects the way people interact with services and the capacity of services to meet their needs. This paper is based on the qualitative strand of a larger mixed-methods study of a national phoneline tackling loneliness in older people in the United Kingdom. The research comprised thema…
The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some seventeenth-century descriptions
Three rhetorical figures associated with exact description – ekphrasis, topographia, and meronymy – are extensively deployed in the early-modern genre of spatial tours of galleries, laboratories, gardens, and natural-historical collections. In a variety of seventeenth-century writing these figures amount to technologies of looking, ones closely associated with developments in seventeenth-century natural-philosophical practice. Rhetorical naming a…
Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
2015). Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee. Anthrozoos: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 691-693
Meer nomenclature’ and the description of order in The Garden of Cyrus
The developing scientific culture of the seventeenth century demanded an augmented lexical range in E nglish that was supplied by natural philosophers and savants like T homas B rowne, R obert B oyle, and J ohn E velyn, whose humanist linguistic training qualified them to introduce learned neologisms. At the same time, they were engaged in ongoing debates about the propriety of semantic and rhetorical embellishment in the writing of science. This…
Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus
Little in the way of politics has ever been detected in Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus (1658). The following essay, however, reconsiders Cyrus in relation to the politically sensitive May Day celebrations of the mid‐seventeenth century, and to the host of orchard and planting manuals which were appearing at the same time, a genre able to contain the ideological, economic and spiritual aspirations of Anglicans and Puritans, Royalists and radi…
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science
The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some seventeenth-century descriptions
Three rhetorical figures associated with exact description – ekphrasis, topographia, and meronymy – are extensively deployed in the early-modern genre of spatial tours of galleries, laboratories, gardens, and natural-historical collections. In a variety of seventeenth-century writing these figures amount to technologies of looking, ones closely associated with developments in seventeenth-century natural-philosophical practice. Rhetorical naming a…
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
2015). Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee. Anthrozoos: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 691-693
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science
Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus
Little in the way of politics has ever been detected in Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus (1658). The following essay, however, reconsiders Cyrus in relation to the politically sensitive May Day celebrations of the mid‐seventeenth century, and to the host of orchard and planting manuals which were appearing at the same time, a genre able to contain the ideological, economic and spiritual aspirations of Anglicans and Puritans, Royalists and radi…
Meer nomenclature’ and the description of order in The Garden of Cyrus
The developing scientific culture of the seventeenth century demanded an augmented lexical range in E nglish that was supplied by natural philosophers and savants like T homas B rowne, R obert B oyle, and J ohn E velyn, whose humanist linguistic training qualified them to introduce learned neologisms. At the same time, they were engaged in ongoing debates about the propriety of semantic and rhetorical embellishment in the writing of science. This…
Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
2015). Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee. Anthrozoos: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 691-693
The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some seventeenth-century descriptions
Three rhetorical figures associated with exact description – ekphrasis, topographia, and meronymy – are extensively deployed in the early-modern genre of spatial tours of galleries, laboratories, gardens, and natural-historical collections. In a variety of seventeenth-century writing these figures amount to technologies of looking, ones closely associated with developments in seventeenth-century natural-philosophical practice. Rhetorical naming a…
What Are the Structural Barriers to Planning for Later Life? A Scoping Review of the Literature
The rollback of the welfare state in countries such as the UK, coupled with population ageing, have contributed to a situation in which responsibility for older people’s wellbeing is placed more heavily on the individual. This is exemplified in the notion in popular and policy circles that individuals should plan for later life, particularly financially, and a corresponding concern that they are not doing so sufficiently. This scoping review aime…
Ringing the changes: The role of telephone communication in a helpline and befriending service targeting loneliness in older people
The drive to deliver services addressing loneliness in older people by telephone and online makes it increasingly relevant to consider how the mode of communication affects the way people interact with services and the capacity of services to meet their needs. This paper is based on the qualitative strand of a larger mixed-methods study of a national phoneline tackling loneliness in older people in the United Kingdom. The research comprised thema…
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