Download or read book Leonora Lydia et les autres written by Alain Bony and published by Presses Universitaires Lyon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rassemble des études parues dans des revues sur les évolutions de la littérature romanesque en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle, sur le lecteur de roman et sur les débats théoriques qui l'ont accompagnée.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth Century Book written by Paddy Bullard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.
Download or read book Music in the Georgian Novel written by Pierre Dubois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.
Download or read book Swift and Others written by Claude Rawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of the great satirist Jonathan Swift on other writers of the English Augustan tradition.
Download or read book Hilarion s Asse written by Anne Bandry-Scubbi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne’s birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent, the incongruous and the facetious, sending the text spiralling out of the page.
Download or read book The New Bath Guide written by Christopher Anstey and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated edition of The New Bath Guide by Christopher Anstey is based on the Second Issue of the First Edition which was published in 1766. It includes two major additions made by the author, the «Epilogue» and «A Charge to the Poets». It aims at widening the perspective on the eighteenth century by examining the work of a minor poet and challenges conventional assumptions about the scope of minor poetry. This series of satirical letters in verse written by the members of a provincial family staying in Georgian Bath provides an inexhaustible source of fun and has great sociological interest. Thanks to the individual and varied voices which are heard in this epistolary poem, a whole society in the making comes alive through the distorting mirror of satire. The introduction, notes and appendices throw new light on a once famous and provocative text and make extensive use of little-known material such as significant parts of the author's correspondence. They situate Anstey's work in its literary and historical contexts, by locating it at the junction of fiction and documentation, at a time of emergence, when new social codes were defined for a new society.
Download or read book Swift Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventure written by Serge Soupel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As readers of medieval and Renaissance literature know, etymologists associate "adventure" with chance: with that which happens surprisingly - "at" a "venture" - through an unexpected confluence of unpredictable events. Reading the whole history of the word, however, reveals that the long eighteenth century presided over the modernization of the term and its underlying idea. Happenstance fell into the background, while grandeur, risk, and novelty entered the spotlight. One could even plan an adventure, and by the time of Defoe, Catesby, Charlevoix, and Humboldt, adventure was already linked to significant prestige and robust standards: one needed plenty of gusto, at least a little money, a modicum of social standing, and a lot of gumption in order to qualify for a career in risky business." "Full of colorful anecdotes, the adventure idiom prevalent in eighteenth century culture provides abundant material that is interesting in its own right, while also helping scholars of the long eighteenth century to grapple with key issues of the period. To the exploration of the many new possibilities for understanding the early modern zest for adventure the contributors of this volume have dedicated themselves. Essays address the subjective production and reception of adventurous thought in the works of Boswell, Bunyan, Cowper, Richardson, and pastor Edward Young; the embodiment of adventure in the varied generic forms of Defoe, Swift, Falconer, and Hannah Snell, a cross-dressing woman soldier; and the locations and social processes relevant to the adventure idiom, both in the lives of Thomas Gray, Defoe, Boswell, Fielding, Swift, and Lord Orford, and in the contacts between native and colonizing populations." "With approaches that are economic, socio- and literary-historical, genre-based, eco-critical, and biographical in nature, Adventure: An Eighteenth-Century Idiom will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students, from specialists in long-eighteenth-century literature to those interested in the general modernizing influence of the Augustan age." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne written by Anne Bandry-Scubbi and published by Armand Colin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'irruption de Tristram Shandy sur la scène littéraire en 1760 fit sensation. Ce livre déconcertant et provocateur, au croisement de la culture classique et de la modernité, suscite depuis deux siècles et demi des réactions ambivalentes. Par sa mise à nu des procédés narratifs, il interroge la littérature et fut souvent pris comme modèle par les tenants de la déconstruction. Mais les vignettes sentimentales eurent aussi leur heure de gloire. Sterne aimait à dire qu'une lettre adressée à " Tristram Shandy, Europe " lui parviendrait, où qu'il se trouve. La parution du texte étalée de 1759 à 1767 le força à renouveler ses trouvailles afin d'entretenir sa réputation d'originalité, toujours d'actualité à l'heure de l'hypertexte et des adaptations postmodernes, des interrogations sur l'héritage du roman et sur l'avenir de la fiction.
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by Modern Humanities Research Association and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes both books and articles.
Download or read book My Body in Pieces written by Marie-Noëlle Hébert and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman’s struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn’t make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn’t call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn’t fall within society’s beauty standards. When, as a young teen, Marie-Noëlle begins a fitness regime in an effort to change her body, her obsession with her weight and size only grows and she begins having suicidal thoughts. Fortunately for Marie-Noëlle, a friend points her in the direction of therapy, and slowly, she begins to realize that she doesn’t need the approval of others to feel whole. Marie-Noëlle Hébert’s debut graphic memoir is visually stunning and drawn entirely in graphite pencil, depicting a deeply personal and emotional journey that encourages us to all be ourselves without apology. Key Text Features graphic novel comic style
Download or read book Republican Learning written by Justin Champion and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book argues that Toland shaped the republican tradition after the Glorious Revolution into a practical and politically viable programme, focused not on destroying the monarchy, but on reforming public religion and the Church of England. The book also examines how Toland used his social intimacy with a wide circle of men and women (ranging from Prince Eugene of Savoy to Robert Harley) to distribute his ideas in private. It also explores the connections between Toland's erudition and print culture, arguing that his intellectual project was aimed at compromising the authority of Christian knowledge as much as the political power of the Church."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Age of Credulity a Letter to N B H in Answer to His Testimony in Favour of R Brothers with an Appendix in Vindication of the Scripture Prophecies By the Author of The Age of Infidelity and Other Tracts i e Thomas Williams written by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of an American Prima Donna written by Klara Louise Kellogg and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Sky of My Africa written by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.
