Download or read book A Philosophical Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids The 3 Ed written by William Hayley and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Philosophical Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids written by William Hayley and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Philosophical Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids written by William Hayley and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author presents a history of the position of single older women in society from ancient times, and includes examples of the treatment of old maids from literature."--Book dealer's description
Download or read book Charlotte Smith written by Loraine Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-06-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books c Belonging to the Library Company of Baltimore written by Library Company of Baltimore and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singlewomen in the European Past 1250 1800 written by Judith Bennett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the significant number of never-married laywomen in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been very limited. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation.
Download or read book John Adams Writings from the New Nation 1784 1826 LOA 276 written by John Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 1257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon S. Wood presents the final chapter in his definitive three-volume edition of the writings of a great American Founder and president A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final volume of a comprehensive three-volume edition makes his important writings from the early national period broadly available to general readers. Bringing together letters, diary excerpts, political essays, speeches, and presidential messages, Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826 illuminates Adams's service as a diplomat in the Netherlands and England; his eight years as vice president under Washington; and his tumultuous single term as president. The first person to win a contested presidential election and then to be defeated for reelection, Adams faced bitter criticism from both Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists while striving to prevent an undeclared naval conflict with Revolutionary France from escalating into full-scale war. Selections from A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787–88) and Discourses on Davila (1790–91) demonstrate his insights into the strengths and weaknesses of ancient and modern political systems, while letters to his wife and children illuminate the passionate and mercurial personality of one of our most fascinating Founders. This volume is published simultaneously with Abigail Adams: Letters, the first comprehensive collection of the extraordinary correspondence of Adams's wife and key advisor. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature 3 Volume Set written by Frederick Burwick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 1767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
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Download or read book In Full Flower written by Lois W. Banner and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And we see the emergence that followed of the idealized, domesticated, and sentimentalized nuclear family centered around the mother--and the concurrent vilification or mockery of the older unmarried woman, which continues to the present. Banner provides new perspective on such subjects as goddess-young god stories in ancient religions, witchcraft, menopause, changes in male and female dress, the rise of the grandmother as a social type, and affectionate and erotic relationships through history, particularly between older women and younger men. She contemplates the mature women portrayed in high and popular art, from Penelope in the Odyssey and the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. She writes about attempts over the centuries to mute the voices of older women--and about those who could not be silenced, from Sappho to Elizabeth I, from the women of France's eighteenth-century salons to nineteenth-century reformers and twentieth-century writers.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare Curious and Valuable Old Books on Sale by Alfred Russell Smith written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE “This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful introductory surveys... All specialists on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume.” History, The Journal of the Historical Association This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. It considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe. Placing Europe within an international context, contributors investigate key areas of society, economics, culture, and political development. The book concludes with the French and other European revolutions that brought the century to a close, both chronologically and as regards the Ancien Régime. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe examines both established and emerging areas of interest in the field, making it an essential guide for students and scholars.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of British Literature 3 Volume Set written by Gary Day and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com
Download or read book Milton s Rival Hermeneutics written by Richard J. DuRocher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent critical conversation has described John Milton’s major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion—as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton’s poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. While accepting the presence of uncertainty and welcoming the multiple perspectives that Milton builds into his works, this volume offers a variety of nuanced approaches to Milton’s texts. As these eleven essays demonstrate, Milton’s own acts of interpretation compel readers to reflect not only on the rival hermeneutics they find within his works but also on their own hermeneutic principles and choices—an interpretive complexity that is integral to his poetry’s enduring appeal. Thus, each of the contributors takes up the problem of this interpretive dilemma in some way: several explore Milton’s own engagement with the texts of Scripture and the classics; some examine the ways in which Milton represents the process of interpretation in his narrative poems; and still others are intrigued by the challenges that Milton’s works present for the reader’s own interpretive skills. Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics, in responding directly to the “incertitude critics” of Milton, will be of interest to those on all sides of this debate and will certainly redirect the ongoing conversation.
