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Book The Flowers of Parnassus

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  • Author : T G
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-17
  • ISBN : 9781379376767
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Flowers of Parnassus written by T G and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T124918 Dedication signed: T.G. Titlepage in red and black. London: printed and sold by J. and T. Dormer, 1736. [10],5-180p., plate; 8°

Book Everywhere and Nowhere

Download or read book Everywhere and Nowhere written by Mark Vareschi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital age Everywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and mediation in the publication and circulation of eighteenth-century British literature—before the Romantic creation of the “author”—and what this means for literary criticism. Anonymous authorship was typical of the time, yet literary scholars and historians have been generally unable to account for it as anything more than a footnote or curiosity. Mark Vareschi shows the entangled relationship between mediation and anonymity, revealing the nonhuman agency of the printed text. Drawing richly on quantitative analysis and robust archival work, Vareschi brings together philosophy, literary theory, and media theory in a trenchant analysis, uncovering a history of textual engagement and interpretation that does not hinge on the known authorial subject. In discussing anonymous poetry, drama, and the novel along with anonymously published writers such as Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, and Walter Scott, he unveils a theory of mediation that renews broader questions about agency and intention. Vareschi argues that textual intentionality is a property of nonhuman, material media rather than human subjects alone, allowing the anonymous literature of the eighteenth century to speak to contemporary questions of meaning in the philosophy of language. Vareschi closes by exploring dubious claims about the death of anonymity and the reexplosion of anonymity with the coming of the digital. Ultimately, Everywhere and Nowhere reveals the long history of print anonymity so central to the risks and benefits of the digital culture.

Book Lyric Generations

Download or read book Lyric Generations written by G. Gabrielle Starr and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. "Refreshingly, this impressive study of poetic form does not read the eighteenth century as a slow road to Romanticism, but fleshes out the period with surprising and important new detail."—Times Literary Supplement G. Gabrielle Starr is the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and a professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature  edited by F W

Download or read book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature edited by F W written by F.W. Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature

Download or read book Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature written by Grolier Club and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Georgia Magazines

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  • Author : Bertram Holland Flanders
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010-05-01
  • ISBN : 0820335363
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Early Georgia Magazines written by Bertram Holland Flanders and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum Georgia. Flanders shows that literary activity was generally confined to middle Georgia and often concentrated on themes of religion and morality, early American life, and European adventures. An extensive bibliography and three appendices give a comprehensive list of magazines published during the time, including dates, places of publication, and names of editors and publishers. More than nine hundred footnotes further elaborate on the analysis of backgrounds, local historical events, and information on contributors.

Book The gentle shepherd

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  • Author : Allan Ramsay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1790
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book The gentle shepherd written by Allan Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus

Download or read book A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus written by Richard Pulteney and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Comic History of Rome

Download or read book The Comic History of Rome written by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beghinae in Cantu Instructae

Download or read book Beghinae in Cantu Instructae written by Pieter Mannaerts and published by Brepols Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beguinages ('begijnhoven') are unique to the Low Countries. Originally, beguine communities were disseminated over a large area comprising the northern and southern Low Countries, northern France, and parts of present-day Germany and Switzerland. The typical 'court' beguinages, however, are represented most strongly in the southern Low Countries, where a considerable number of them still exist. On account of their historical, architectural, and socio-religious value, a selection of thirteen beguinages was recognized as World Heritage by Unesco in 1998. Only recently, research has paid closer attention to the material culture of beguinage life, including literacy and book culture among beguines. Beguinae in cantu instructae focuses on another 'new' aspect of this musical culture, and for the first time describes and studies the sources of the beguines' musical life. The volume fills a void in current musicology and beguine scholarship, sketching the previously unassessed quality, quantity, stylistic diversity, and historical and geographical dissemination of the repertory. On the one hand, a number of source studies yield a deeper insight into several aspects of the preserved patrimony, which proves to be both rich and diverse. The 'story behind the music' provides the context necessary for a full understanding of the sources. On the other hand, this book aims at stimulating further exploration of the music by providing a repertory of all music manuscripts and prints that have been found thus far. Beguinae in cantu instructae will inform the general reader on new aspects of beguine life; furthermore, it will provide amateur and professional musicians with new material (from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century) and historians and musicologists with a basis for further study and research.

Book Auld Reikie

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  • Author : Robert Fergusson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1773
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Auld Reikie written by Robert Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Second Characters  Or  The Language of Forms

Download or read book Second Characters Or The Language of Forms written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Xerxes

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  • Author : Richard Stoneman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-15
  • ISBN : 0300216041
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Xerxes written by Richard Stoneman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’ failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.