20 research outputs found
Wasting Breath in Hamlet
This is the final version. Available on open access from Palgrave via the DOI in this recordThis chapter draws on instances of disordered breathing in
Hamlet in order to examine the cultural signifcance of sighs in the early
modern period, as well as in the context of current work in the feld
of medical humanities. Tracing the medical history of sighing in ancient
and early modern treatises of the passions, the chapter argues that sighs,
in the text and the performance of the tragedy, exceed their conventional
interpretation as symptoms of pain and disrupt meaning on the page and
on stage. In the light of New Materialist theory, the air circulating in
Hamlet is shown to dismantle narratives of representation, posing new
questions for the future of medical humanities
Activation and Deactivation of a Robust Immobilized Cp*Ir-Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst: A Multielement in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study
A highly robust immobilized [Cp*IrCl2]2 precatalyst on Wang resin for transfer hydrogenation, which can be recycled up to 30 times, was studied using a novel combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at Ir L3-edge, Cl K-edge, and K K-edge. These culminate in in situ XAS experiments that link structural changes of the Ir complex with its catalytic activity and its deactivation. Mercury poisoning and “hot filtration” experiments ruled out leached Ir as the active catalyst. Spectroscopic evidence indicates the exchange of one chloride ligand with an alkoxide to generate the active precatalyst. The exchange of the second chloride ligand, however, leads to a potassium alkoxide–iridate species as the deactivated form of this immobilized catalyst. These findings could be widely applicable to the many homogeneous transfer hydrogenation catalysts with Cp*IrCl substructure
Gardens of happiness: Sir William Temple, temperance and China
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this recordSir William Temple, an English statesman and humanist, wrote “Upon the
Gardens of Epicurus” in 1685, taking a neo-epicurean approach to happiness
and temperance. In accord with Pierre Gassendi’s epicureanism, “happiness” is
characterised as freedom from disturbance and pain in mind and body, whereas
“temperance” means following nature (Providence and one’s physiopsychological constitution). For Temple, cultivating fruit trees in his garden was
analogous to the threefold cultivation of temperance as a virtue in the humoral
body (as food), the mind (as freedom from the passions), and the bodyeconomic (as circulating goods) in order to attain happiness. A regimen that was
supposed to cure the malaise of Restoration amidst a crisis of unbridled
passions, this threefold cultivation of temperance underlines Temple’s reception
of China and Confucianism wherein happiness and temperance are highlighted.
Thus Temple’s “gardens of happiness” represent not only a reinterpretation of
classical ideas, but also his dialogue with China.European CommissionLeverhulme Trus