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A Collection Of Novels Selected And Revised By Mrs Griffith
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Book Synopsis The True Story of the Novel by : Margaret Anne Doody
Download or read book The True Story of the Novel written by Margaret Anne Doody and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An erudite, intelligent and imaginative work of literary scholarship. With vivacity, grace, and wit, Doody traces the history (of the novel) from the ancient novels of Apuleium and Heliodorus through the Renaissance fictions of Boccaccio, Cervantes, and Rabelais to the 'official' birth of the novel in 18th-century England".--BOSTON GLOBE. 39 illustrations.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature by :
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Noble Slaves by : Penelope Aubin
Download or read book The Noble Slaves written by Penelope Aubin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever critical edition of Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves, a novel that shows women as both moral exemplars and independent adventurers in foreign lands. Its tales of seduction, imprisonment, and escape engage with contemporary debates about arbitrary authority and slavery—particularly in relation to the lives of women. In one brief and fast-paced novel, Aubin brings together the aristocratic romance and the world of trade with the themes of empire and colonialism. Sometimes assessed as a pious conservative or a popular sensationalist, Aubin used fiction as a vehicle for addressing the deepest moral and political concerns of her time, and The Noble Slaves will allow new readers to understand her importance to the history of the novel. The appendices to this Broadview Edition include contemporary fiction and historical documents on slavery, piracy, and Orientalism.
Book Synopsis Seductive Forms by : Rosalind Ballaster
Download or read book Seductive Forms written by Rosalind Ballaster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which three women novelists of the late-17th and early-18th centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention.
Book Synopsis The Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont by : Penelope Aubin
Download or read book The Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont written by Penelope Aubin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prose fiction of Penelope Aubin, including the two texts included in this edition—The Life of Madam de Beaumount (1721) and The Life of Charlotta Du Pont (1723), offers a delightful and provocative challenge to many of our standard ways of thinking about both the “rise of the novel” in eighteenth-century Britain and about women writers in that era. Aubin’s fast-paced highlights the persistence and vitality of romance as a form of storytelling, and the centrality of teenaged girls to tales that extend far beyond the domestic and amatory modes with which women writers have traditionally been associated. Aubin’s resourceful heroines and the often spectacular violence they engage in in order to defend their lives and bodily integrity against threats allow us a more expansive and exciting view of early eighteenth-century fiction than the current classroom canon often permits. In narratives spanning the globe and featuring pirates, North African corsairs, Jacobites, shipwrecks, and seraglios, Aubin delivers a form of fiction with roots that go back to antiquity and commitments that often feel far more modern than most other texts from the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Sale Catalogues by : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Polite Marriage Also the Didatic Lyre the Bristol Milkwoman the Scotch Parents Clio in Motley and Mary Hays, Philosophess by :
Download or read book The Polite Marriage Also the Didatic Lyre the Bristol Milkwoman the Scotch Parents Clio in Motley and Mary Hays, Philosophess written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library at Hendersyde Park by : J. Waldie
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library at Hendersyde Park written by J. Waldie and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Polite Marriage by : J. M. S. Tompkins
Download or read book The Polite Marriage written by J. M. S. Tompkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this book explores six 'minor phenomena' from eighteenth-century literature. Each figure is briefly discussed in Tompkins' earlier book, The Popular Novel in England, but here they are dealt with more fully. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in overlooked British authors.
Book Synopsis Recognizing the Romantic Novel by : Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
Download or read book Recognizing the Romantic Novel written by Jillian Heydt-Stevenson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of literature changed dramatically at the end of the eighteenth century, as under the shadow of Romanticism the novel became the most important literary genre of its day. Often neglected, the novels of the Romantic era puzzle critics yet are much more concerned with the unexpected, the unconventional, and the uncanny than their immediate predecessors or successors, and their authors include some of the most important novelists of British literary history—Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, James Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Sir Walter Scott among them. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars in the field, Recognizing the Romantic Novel evaluates the vibrancy and centrality of the Romantic novel, showcasing the important new voices and directions in the field and showing it can hold its own in the canon of literary scholarship. “These essays offer us a lens through which we may recognize the Romantic novel as it has never been recognized before.”—Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis The Delicate Distress by : Elizabeth Griffith
Download or read book The Delicate Distress written by Elizabeth Griffith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage—the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epistolary novel of sensibility in the tradition of Samuel Richardson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau from a feminist perspective that centers on strong, intelligent, and virtuous women. Two sisters exchange letters about urgent ethical questions concerning love, marriage, morality, art, the duties of wives and husbands, and passion versus reason, while two men correspond about the same subjects. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. The third volume in the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, The Delicate Distress contributes to our understanding of the development of the novel. As Cynthia Ricciardi and Susan Staves show, Griffith's exploration of the psychology of characters who observe and reflect but engage in no grand public actions anticipates Henry James. The editors' introduction places The Delicate Distress firmly in the tradition of the English novel, provides the most complete biography available on Griffith's life, and brings together the most important eighteenth- and twentieth-century criticism of the novelist's work.
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 4 by : Derek Hughes
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 4 written by Derek Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.
Book Synopsis English and British Fiction, 1750-1820 by : Peter Garside
Download or read book English and British Fiction, 1750-1820 written by Peter Garside and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Download or read book Oroonoko written by Aphra Behn and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Oronooko’ tells the story of a fictional African prince, who is duped into slavery and sent to Surinam, a British colony in South America. There, with his beloved Imoinda also enslaved, he must use every ounce of his reasoning and nobility to persuade his captors to free him. A poignant tale, ́Oroonoko ́ was first staged in the UK by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and featured Jo Martin, of TV’s ‘Doctor Who.’ ́Oroonoko ́ is a riveting read that swayed many of Behn’s critics toward abolitionism. Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689) lived many lives in one lifetime. While she is best known for her work as a poet, author, and playwright, she also worked as a spy for the court of King Charles II and spent some time in a debtor’s prison. However, very little is known about the UK’s first professional female author, possibly as the result of Aphra erasing her history to work in the field of espionage. What we do know is that a quick stay in jail prompted Behn to begin writing as a means of financing herself. Despite an initially successful run of plays, including ‘The Forc’d Marriage’, ‘The Amorous Prince’, and ‘The Dutch Lover’, critics panned her outings, on account they had discovered they had been written by a woman. However, she continued to write, and her play, ‘The Rover’, became a favourite in Charles II’s court. Towards the end of her life, Behn wrote prose until her death in 1689. She was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Book Synopsis Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose by : Anna Letitia Barbauld
Download or read book Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose written by Anna Letitia Barbauld and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with essays—some never before reprinted—on literature, religion, education, prejudice, women’s fashions, and class conflict.
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-century Women Playwrights: Elizabeth Griffith by : Derek Hughes
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Women Playwrights: Elizabeth Griffith written by Derek Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Aphra Behn by : Aphra Behn
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
