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Book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal

Download or read book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal written by Jonathan Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797 Robert Southey published a richly detailed account of his journey in Spain and Portugal between December 1795 and May 1796, from his arrival in Coruna in the northwest of the Spanish coast to the heart of Castile and into Madrid, before making his way to Lisbon. Structured as a series of letters written as he travelled across the Iberian Peninsula, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal engages with the tradition of English travelogues, while borrowing traits from other genres such as the journal, translation, literary criticism, history, and the picturesque guidebook. On his way, Southey comments on every aspect of Spanish and Portuguese society, from local food and wine, bizarre customs, literature and theatregoing, to Iberian politics and religion. In his letters Southey, who would grow to become one of the leading Hispanists in late Georgian England, contrasts the political, religious, cultural and social systems of Britain and two of the oldest nations in the European continent in a way that raises important questions about cultural contact and transmission during the Romantic period. This edition critically reassesses Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal by looking at Southey’s deeply ambiguous cultural cosmopolitanism and his life-long investment in all things Spanish and Portuguese.

Book Letters Written During a Journey in Spain and a Short Residence in Portugal

Download or read book Letters Written During a Journey in Spain and a Short Residence in Portugal written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of books belonging to sir William Heathcote  bart   at Hursley Park

Download or read book Catalogue of books belonging to sir William Heathcote bart at Hursley Park written by James Darling and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Divinity Hall Library of the United Presbyterian Church

Download or read book Catalogue of the Divinity Hall Library of the United Presbyterian Church written by Scotland. - United Presbyterian Church. - Theological Hall. - Library and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Southey

Download or read book Robert Southey written by S. Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Robert Southey , Andrews argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue, Southey was absolutely consistent in all his work and the Poet Laureate's partisan rhetoric reveals much about the religious culture of this stormy period in England.

Book The Quarterly Review  London

Download or read book The Quarterly Review London written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books in the Library of Sir William Heathcote  Bart   M P   at Hursley Park  in the County of Southampton  Second Edition  Arranged 1834  and Revised and Enlarged 1862  by the Late James Darling     Completed by His Son  James Darling      1865

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of Sir William Heathcote Bart M P at Hursley Park in the County of Southampton Second Edition Arranged 1834 and Revised and Enlarged 1862 by the Late James Darling Completed by His Son James Darling 1865 written by Sir William HEATHCOTE and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Belles lettres Repository  and Monthly Magazine

Download or read book The Belles lettres Repository and Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subtle Subversions

Download or read book Subtle Subversions written by Gwyn Fox and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women across early modern Europe suffered repressive and restrictive patriarchal measures that denied them education and a voice. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Counter-Reformation Iberia. Yet there is increasing awareness of a wealth of cultural activity by women, produced in spite of long-cherished masculine notions of biological determinism, masculine control, and feminine shame. Women proved that given the opportunity and the education they were equal in reason and intelligence to their male counterparts. Subtle Subversions is the first full-length, contextual, and analytical study of the sonnets of five seventeenth-century women in Spain and Portugal: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, Sor María de Santa Isabel, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, and Sor Violante del Cielo. Using the sonnets as a basis for inquiry, Gwyn Fox adds significantly to scholarship on women's interpersonal relationships through nuanced and revealing analyses of family and friendship as seen through the sonnets. She deciphers issues of subjectivity, interpersonal relationships, and power structures and engages with patronage as a major issue in women's writing. As a difficult form of poetry requiring wit, artistry and education, sonnets provided the ideal framework to display intellectual skills and education, but they also allowed the women to create a subtext of criticism of contemporary systems of control. Although their criticisms had to be subtle, since these systems still offered them much in terms of social advancement and privilege, these women and their works revise our understanding of women's lives in Baroque Spain and Portugal. English translations accompany the Spanish quotations throughout the book. Gwyn Fox is honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches Spanish language and literature. Fox is currently translating Los baños de Argel, a previously untranslated play by Miguel de Cervantes. "Fox demonstrates that the fixed form of the sonnet simultaneously allowed women to showcase their intellectual talents and critique predominant masculine norms in an understated fashion. . . . Recommended." -- P.W. Manning, Choice "In this beautifully written study of five early modern Iberian poets, Gwyn Fox offers a revisionary history of women's poetics as well as a challenge to conventional Renaissance hermeneutics. . . . Fox delves deeply into each theme, not only contextualizing, but also historicizing her analysis by comparing these women's writings with a broad range of examples. Indeed a bonus of this book is that it does not limit itself to the five women specified above or solely to their sonnets. Fox speaks knowledgeably about other women writers, such as Maria de Zayas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, to name the most well known, and mentions lesser-known figures such as Inarda de Arteaga. . . . [Fox's] close readings of individual poems are themselves subtle and nuanced. . . . She offers original insights into the poems' social purpose. . . . It is a welcome and much-needed addition to early modern Spanish scholarship." -- Anne J. Cruz, Renaissance Quarterly "Fox's contribution adds to prior rediscoveries and assessments of the poetry of five Iberian women of the Baroque about whose lives, in some cases, very little is known. . . . The critical analysis offered in Subtle Subversions present new insights into the interpersonal relationships of women as well as their engagement with structures of social power, affirming that their sonnets were meant to display these authors' intellect, wit, and education. . . . With her skillful readings of their sonnets, Fox offers a fuller picture of these women's poetic production and contributes to an overall understanding of upperclass women's lives in Spain and Portugal." -- Dana Bultman, Caliope

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lake Poets in Prose

Download or read book The Lake Poets in Prose written by Stuart Andrews and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on the Lake Poets’ prose writing—including their journalism and correspondence—this collection of essays challenges some widely held assumptions. Much of the narrative is Bristol-based, as the city’s reference library holds not only much of Southey’s personal library, but the borrowing registers of the old subscription library which still record the titles that Coleridge and Southey borrowed in the 1790s. It places the poets’ American Susquehanna project, customarily dismissed as the idealistic dreams of Oxbridge students, in the context of European emigration schemes prompted by the American Revolution. Similarly the label “Jacobin,” suggesting French revolutionary brutality, is shown here to be no more apt a description than “Communist” was in 1950s America. However, the book does show that the poets did challenge the government’s social and political assumptions of the day, often from a religious standpoint. The claim that the three poets abandoned democratic impulses when Napoleon invaded Switzerland is also here rebutted by their involvement—a decade later—in defending the independence of Spain and Portugal, not only against Bonaparte, but against their ancien-régime monarchies. When, in 1815, those monarchs were restored, Southey pinned his democratic hopes on the Portuguese colony of Brazil. At home, amid distress caused by wholesale demobilization and shrinkage of economically viable agricultural land, the poets understandably condemned the rabble-rousers and (correctly) predicted an assassination attempt. Coleridge and Southey, both youthful Unitarians and (like Wordsworth) devotees of the “religion of nature,” are argued here to have defended the Established Church against Catholic Emancipation, while the two brothers-in-law’s interest in Islam is shown to be more than mere obsessive Orientalism.

Book Robert Southey  Later Poetical Works  1811 1838 Vol 2

Download or read book Robert Southey Later Poetical Works 1811 1838 Vol 2 written by Tim Fulford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is 'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society

Download or read book A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society written by Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the books belonging to the Charleston Library Society

Download or read book A Catalogue of the books belonging to the Charleston Library Society written by Charleston Library Society (CHARLESTON, South Carolina) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: