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Book The History of the Countess of Dellwyn

Download or read book The History of the Countess of Dellwyn written by Sarah Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Novel

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Novel written by Kate Rumbold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Book Fictions of Authority

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Sniader Lanser
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780801480201
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Fictions of Authority written by Susan Sniader Lanser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Writing from positions of cultural exclusion, women have faced constraints not only upon the "content" of fiction but upon the act of narration itself. Narrative voice thus becomes a matter not simply of technique but of social authority: how to speak publicly, to whom, and in whose name. Susan Sniader Lanser here explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. Drawing upon narratological and feminist theory, Lanser sheds new light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power.

Book A Literary History of Women s Writing in Britain  1660   1789

Download or read book A Literary History of Women s Writing in Britain 1660 1789 written by Susan Staves and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

Book The History of Ophelia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Fielding
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 2004-03-26
  • ISBN : 1770484477
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The History of Ophelia written by Sarah Fielding and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivaled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist’s Magazine edition, and excerpts from Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa.

Book Literary Relations

Download or read book Literary Relations written by Jane Spencer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Relations argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature. Through studies of writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that kinship between writers played a significant role not just in individual lives but in the formation of generic traditions. As writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing sons, the literary tradition was modelled on the patriarchal family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This marginalized but did not exclude women, and the study ranges from the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but significant progress towards understanding the woman writer as an inheriting daughter and generative mother.

Book A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding

Download or read book A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding written by Christopher D Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The making of a novelist -- 2 Her own story, The Adventures of David Simple -- 3 Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters of David Simple -- 4 The Governess, a new experiment in fiction -- 5 Forays into literary criticism -- 6 David Simple, Volume the Last -- 7 Collaboration and innovation, The Cry -- 8 The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia -- 9 The History of the Countess of Dellwyn -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index

Book The Novel  An Alternative History  1600 1800

Download or read book The Novel An Alternative History 1600 1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).

Book Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind

Download or read book Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind written by Mary Anne Schofield and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work concentrates on how eighteenth-century feminine novelists articulate the concerns important to women's lives and fates, and argues that these novelists used their romances to combat the controlling ideologies of the age.

Book Sensibility and Economics in the Novel

Download or read book Sensibility and Economics in the Novel written by G. Skinner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-12-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensibility and Economics in the Novel argues that the sentimental novel, usually seen as a 'feminine' genre concentrating exclusively on emotional response, is in fact actively involved in contemporary economic and political debates. Spanning the period encompassing the rise, heyday and decline of sentimentalism, the book considers how the trajectory of the movement affected the sentimental novel's use of discourses of economics, sensibility and femininity, and assesses the impact of the pressures of the post-Revolutionary 1790s on these areas.

Book Miscellaneous Correspondence

Download or read book Miscellaneous Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing a variety of subjects, relative to natural and civil history, geography, mathematics, poetry, memoirs of monthly occurrences, catalogues of new books, &c...

Book The Governess

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Fielding
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 2005-09-26
  • ISBN : 9781551114125
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Governess written by Sarah Fielding and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1749, the story of Mrs. Teachum and the nine pupils who make up her “little female academy” is widely recognized as the first full-length novel for children, and the first to be aimed specifically at girls. The daily experiences of Mrs. Teachum’s charges are interwoven with fables and fairy tales illustrating the book’s underlying principles, which draw on contemporary theories of education and virtue. As central to the history of the novel as it is to the development of children’s literature, The Governess is a pioneering work by one of the eighteenth century’s most respected women writers. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that places The Governess in its cultural and literary context; appendices include examples of eighteenth-century educational literature and selections from Fielding’s correspondence.

Book 4E Cognition and Eighteenth Century Fiction

Download or read book 4E Cognition and Eighteenth Century Fiction written by Karin Kukkonen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in Eliza Haywood's flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox's work as a cultural broker between Britain and France, Sarah Fielding's experimental novels, and Frances Burney's practice of life-writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors who are often written out of the history of the genre are here foregrounded in a critical account that emphasizes the importance of engaging readers' minds and bodies, and which invites us to revisit our understanding of the rise of the modern novel. Kukkonen's innovative theoretical approach is based on the approach of 4E cognition, which views thinking as profoundly embodied and embedded in social and material contexts, extending into technologies and material devices (such as a pen), and enactive in the inherent links between perceiving the world and moving around in it. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction investigates the eighteenth-century novel through each of these trajectories and shows how language explores its embodied dimension by increasing the descriptions of inner perception, or the bodily gestures around spoken dialogue. The embodied dimension is then related to the media ecologies of letter-writing, book learning, and theatricality. As the novel feeds off and into these social and material contexts, it comes into its own as a lifeworld technology that might not answer to standards of nineteenth-century realism but that feels 'real' because it is integrated into the lifeworld and embodied experiences. 4E cognition answers one of the central challenges to cognitive literary studies: how to integrate historical and cultural contexts into cognitive approaches.

Book Catalogue of Standard English Authors

Download or read book Catalogue of Standard English Authors written by Dawson, William, & Sons, of London and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Standard English Authors  Ancient and Modern     Also a Collection of Books Relating to America and the West Indies  On Sale by Wm  Dawson   Sons  Etc

Download or read book A Catalogue of Standard English Authors Ancient and Modern Also a Collection of Books Relating to America and the West Indies On Sale by Wm Dawson Sons Etc written by Dawson, William and Sons and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth Century England Vol 5

Download or read book Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth Century England Vol 5 written by Alysa Levene and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.