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Book Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes

Download or read book Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes written by Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière) and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Auction Records

Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frand Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.

Book Heroines and Local Girls

Download or read book Heroines and Local Girls written by Pamela L. Cheek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women's literature characterized by highly recognizable codes. Drawing on a literary geography of national types, women writers across Western Europe read, translated, wrote, and rewrote stories about exceptional young women, literary heroines who transcend the gendered destiny of their distinctive cultural and national contexts. These transcultural heroines struggle against the cultural constraints determining the sexualized fates of local girls. In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe between 1650 and 1810. Starting with an account of a remarkable tea party that brought together Frances Burney, Sophie von La Roche, and Marie Elisabeth de La Fite in conversation about Stéphanie de Genlis, she excavates a complex community of European and British women authors. In chapters that incorporate history, network theory, and feminist literary history, she examines the century-and-a-half literary lineage connecting Madame de Maintenon to Mary Wollstonecraft, including Charlotte Lennox and Françoise de Graffigny and their radical responses to sexual violence. Neither simply a reaction to, nor collusion with, patriarchal and national literary forms but, rather, both, women's writing offered an invitation to group membership through a literary project of self-transformation. In so doing, argues Cheek, women's writing was the first modern literary category to capitalize transnationally on the virtue of identity, anticipating the global literary marketplace's segmentation of affinity-based reading publics, and continuing to define women's writing to this day.

Book Tea Sets and Tyranny

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven C. Bullock
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0812248600
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Tea Sets and Tyranny written by Steven C. Bullock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tea Sets and Tyranny offers a political history of politeness in early America, from its origins in the late seventeenth century to its remaking in the age of the Revolution.

Book The Unfinished Manner

Download or read book The Unfinished Manner written by Elizabeth Wanning Harries and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Unfinished Manner examines the fragments produced by European writers and artists in the eighteenth century and earlier, fragments that were not the result of an inability to finish either texts or buildings but rather deliberate refusals to make the traditional gestures of conclusion. Most books published in the past few years on the fragment and the unfinished see it as a peculiarly "Romantic" early nineteenth-century exclusively poetic form. Elizabeth Wanning Harries argues, instead, that the fragment not only had a long history beginning with Petrarch but also played an important part in the history of the novel and other kinds of prose." "Conceptualizing the fragment as a genre, Harries sheds a new light on the practice of reading fiction and "reading" ruins in the eighteenth century, complex practices that often require oscillation between two perspectives or ways of reading. She also explores the gendering of forms in eighteenth-century aesthetics - the perception of fragments as feminine (beautiful) rather than masculine (sublime) - and speculates on the fragment's meaning within the context of eighteenth-century social mythologies as well as those of later eras. Finally, she rereads Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" to show its roots in eighteenth-century fragmentary textual practices." "The Unfinished Manner takes up the questions that arise when writers and artists treat apparently unfinished forms - fragments, ruins, torsos, sketches - as finished, both in the eighteenth century and, implicitly, today. Harries's treatments of Petrarch as the initiator of the fragment tradition, of Sterne in relation to biblical criticism, of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" in relation to Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and of fragments in their relation to the feminine are original and revisionary contributions that seriously challenge some critical assumptions about Romanticism and its relationship to eighteenth-century texts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Karma s Dirty Secrets Memoir

Download or read book Karma s Dirty Secrets Memoir written by Newoka LaShelle Baker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma's dirty secrets are exposed when her daughter speaks out in a detailed published diary reaching millions about being an adult survivor of child abuse at the hands of her biological mother, blamed for the death of her late great-grandmother, survivor of repeated rapes by a male babysitter, survivor of a convicted neighborhood child molester, survivor of child/stranger abduction, survivor of child gang rapes by teens, survivor of adult/child bullies and one stranger who left her daughter for dead. Jaw dropping facts exposed family secrets and law enforcement short falls that needed to be told. Karma played a major role and paid the ultimate price in the end.

Book Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe

Download or read book Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers 1,500 years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the Encyclopedia covers the authors of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism, social commentary, feminist manifestos, romances, mysteries, memoirs, children's literature, biography, and other genres. In signed entries, some of which are mini-essays, experts in the field examine writers' lives and achievements, comment on individual works, place artistic efforts in historical context, provide insights and analyses, and present more information than can be easily found elsewhere without undertaking more exhaustive research. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of primary works. Indexed by language, nationality, genre, and century. Spotlights the interesting lives of notable writers In these pages students and readers will meet hundreds of interesting women writers who made lasting contributions to the intellectual and popular culture of their countries while often leading fascinating lives, among them: * AGATHA CHRISTIE , who wrote her first book in response to her sister's demand for a detective story that was harder to solve than the popular fiction of her day, and whose work has been translated in more languages than Shakespeare's. * HILDEGARD VON BINGEN , the 12th-century German mystic, who wrote profusely as a prophet, a poet, a dramatist, a physician, and a political moralist, often communicated with popes and princes, and exerted a tremendous influence on the Western Europe of her time * MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, whose 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus became a literary sensation around the world * ILSE BLUMENTHAL-WEISS, one of the few concentration camp survivors to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in German verse * LINA WERTMULLER, who in addition to her work in films, has written plays for the stage and a novel, and who once was a member of a short-lived puppet theater that staged the works of Kafka. Special features: Ideal for quick reference and student research * Multicultural-covers over 30 languages and 15 centuries * Includes many contemporary writers * Provides essential biographic data on each writer * Each entry is followed by a chronological listing of the writer's published book-length works * Offers critical evaluations of major works * Indexes help find writers by country...research by time period...survey genres...focus on languages

Book 1639 1729

Download or read book 1639 1729 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dutch in the Early Modern World

Download or read book The Dutch in the Early Modern World written by David Onnekink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.

Book Lapham  Richards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luther Samuel Livingston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 716 pages

Download or read book Lapham Richards written by Luther Samuel Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature  Vol 1

Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Book A History of Women s Political Thought in Europe  1700   1800

Download or read book A History of Women s Political Thought in Europe 1700 1800 written by Karen Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Book Lapham  Richards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luther S. Livingston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Lapham Richards written by Luther S. Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opera and Politics in Queen Anne s Britain  1705 1714

Download or read book Opera and Politics in Queen Anne s Britain 1705 1714 written by Thomas McGeary and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.

Book Catalogue of a Collection of Books

Download or read book Catalogue of a Collection of Books written by Almon Whiting Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: