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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 430-456). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / 456 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Bibliography: p. 277-286.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1993. / Includes vita and abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 264-276).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis has two overarching aims. The first aim is to understand the origins and development of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism, particularly through the theology that informed what may broadly be called the Methodist teetotal movement in its period of greatest popularity from 1830 until 1919. The second is to consider the downfall of this movement in the period from 1945 until 1974, when the Methodist Connexion adopted the view that each Methodist “must consider his personal attitude to all drugs in relation to his Christian vocation”. The need for the study arises from the relative dearth of historical investigation regarding Methodism and abstinence. Representations of Methodism and abstinence tend either to be partisan or to lack wider understanding of the abstinence movement, or the theology of Methodism. Methodologically, this thesis attempts to hold together historical and theological considerations; it is important to consider both the socio-economic contexts in which diverse abstinence and teetotal movements arose and the theological motivations that drove British Methodist belief and practice. Regarding the origins and development of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism, it is proposed in this thesis that the Bible Christians were the first organised Methodist abstainers, and that their practice was likely to have been influenced by John Wesley's theologies of sanctification, holiness and Christian perfection. The thesis is an attempt to counter the Bible Christian’s diminished historical significance, as well as to investigate the likely impact of the theological underpinnings for their abstinence. Regarding the downfall of temperance and abstinence in British Methodism in the period from 1945 until 1974, this thesis will propose that a loss of focus upon holiness as a catalyst for abstinence was detrimental to the growth and continuation of the teetotal movement throughout Methodism after World War Two. It will highlight the general rejection of this focus on encouraged abstinence in the second half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the changes and disagreement within British Methodism to which this dismissal led. Concluding comments allude to the need for a renewed witness within British Methodism to societal and theological imperatives for both temperance and abstinence.

My dissertation is a historicist examination of the circulatory relationship among popular fiction, theatre, and related non–fiction texts in mid–nineteenth–century America. Though previous critics have acknowledged interactions between mid–century theatre and print, none have fully fleshed out the performative contexts or social consequences of this interplay. In contrast, I contend that the narrative and visual exchanges between theatre and literature are crucial to deciphering how different social classes formed and distinguished themselves. My central claim is that cultural arbiters from the print world (including activist authors and advice–text writers) and from the public amusement realm (entrepreneurial theatre producers and melodrama playwrights) poached each other's work in order to capitalize on preexisting consumer communities. By cultivating socially homogenous audiences, these arbiters became vital contributors to the consolidation of self–conscious, class–based identities in nineteenth–century America. Chapter One examines George Lippard's urban–crime novel The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall (1844). In it, I argue that Lippard reproduces apocalyptic scenes of disaster familiar to readers from spectacle–centric theatrical melodramas in order to unify a diverse working class. Chapter Two contends that W.H. Smith's temperance melodrama The Drunkard (1844) co–opts the real–life speeches of working–class temperance lecturers and reframes them as a middle–class landlord's story of redemption; through featuring this popular show at their curiosity museum theatres, proprietors Moses Kimball and P.T. Barnum established the nation's first theatrical spaces solely for middle–class audiences. Chapter Three claims that the 1860s proliferation of home theatrical guidebooks—which detailed how to construct makeshift stages, simulate special effects, and adapt well–known stage dramas—offered the emergent middle classes a viable substitute for commercial theatergoing and a key outlet to reinforce their social status. My final chapter studies Louisa May Alcott's sensation novella Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power (1866), a work which engages the dissertation's collective themes of theatricality, social class, and private space. By depicting a professional actress utilizing her theatrical skills to infiltrate an aristocratic family, Alcott presents the private estate as the ideal venue to gain social status and reveals performance as a critical means for upward mobility.

This diploma thesis deals with the design of injection molds, especially it is focused on their temperance and cooling. The aim is to design a beneficial technological process for tempering and cooling the injection mold for critically exposed sites. In the theoretical part I focused on a comprehensive outline of the issue of injection molding and the possibility of tempering and cooling circuits. In the practical part the specified injection was modeled and an injection mold was designed for its implementation. The construction was carried out in the Siemens NX program and the simulation analysis was done in Cadmould 3D - F and Aeroflow software. For the POM material the total shrinkage and warpage of 1.674 [mm] and the flatness of the hem of 0.403 [mm] at a total optimum mold temperature of 80 [°C.] were achieved. For PA material were total shrinkage and warpage 1,745 [mm] and flatness of hem 1,649 [mm]. I researched that the maximum mold temperature at POM injection is 94.862 [° C] and the end temperature at the end of the cycle is 87.259 [°C] at a critical point. The main finding is the possibility to affect the overall shrinkage and warpage along with the flatness of the hem by varying the temperature of the cooling circuits. Based on the detected data, the active cooling circuit is more suitable for installation than the passive cooling element. The results of this work enable shortening of the technological cycle time of the injection mold and selecting of a suitable cooling solution for exposed injection sites.

The purpose of the thesis is first to anatomize the concept of "temperance," studying it in its Classical and Christian contexts. After having done so I examine the use of the concept in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book II and in a series of works by Milton. We see that "temperance" is a many-sided term, variously defined as "quietness," "modesty," "doing one's own work," and "self-knowledge." Since its linguistic prototype was the Greek sophrosyne, the notion of "order" and "harmony" also carries over to the word "temperance." It becomes clear that temperance has cosmological significance--it is a manifestation of the orderly universe with regard to personal morality. As such it is an instrument of God's grace against the forces of Satanic disorder and intemperance. Temperance served to keep the Christian hero alive to grace and able to respond to it when the right moment arrived, only after much trial. Temperance, then, helps man to weather the state of trial which comes before the state of glory and makes him worthy of felicity. In Chapter One, the notion of temperance is examined with reference to various Classical and Christian works, thus uncovering a wide range of meanings for the term. Chapter Two is devoted to a chronological journey through Spenser's Book of Temperance, and showing how Spenser was alive to the tradition behind him. The third chapter examines Comus, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes and in so doing underscores Milton's understanding of and concern with temperance. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate