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Book Synopsis The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar by : George Cumberland
Download or read book The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar written by George Cumberland and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar is a utopian novel in two parts. In this scholarly edition, G.E. Bentley, Jr, places George Cumberland's late eighteenth-century work among the earliest historical novels in English and identifies it as a rare example of the "Romantic novel." He shows that while each part of the work adopts a very different form of utopia, the two utopias complement and modify one another. He also shows the work to be unusual for the sexual and political freedom encouraged and the Christian fundamentalism advocated, as well as for its setting, in lands never visited by Europeans at the time of writing.
Book Synopsis The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar, an African Tale: Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown to Mankind in General by : George Cumberland
Download or read book The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar, an African Tale: Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown to Mankind in General written by George Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The captive of the castle of Sennaar by : George Cumberland
Download or read book The captive of the castle of Sennaar written by George Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Reformed, Or, The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar by : George Cumberland
Download or read book The Reformed, Or, The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar written by George Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar by : George Cumberland
Download or read book The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar written by George Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caught between Worlds by : Joe Snader
Download or read book Caught between Worlds written by Joe Snader and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel. Until the mid-eighteenth century, British examples of the genre outpaced their American cousins in length, frequency of publication, attention to anthropological detail, and subjective complexity. Using both new and canonical texts, Snader shows that foreign captivity was a favorite topic in eighteenth-century Britain. An adaptable and expansive genre, these narratives used set plots and stereotypes originating in Mediterranean power struggles and relocated in a variety of settings, particularly eastern lands. The narratives' rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions often grew out of centuries of religious strife and coincided with Europe's early modern military ascendancy. Caught Between Worlds presents a broad, rich, and flexible definition of the captivity narrative, placing the American strain in its proper place within the tradition as a whole. Snader, having assembled the first bibliography of British captivity narratives, analyzes both factual texts and a large body of fictional works, revealing the ways they helped define British identity and challenged Britons to rethink the place of their nation in the larger world.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel by : April London
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by April London and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.
Download or read book Boondoggles written by G.E. Bentley, Jr and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Jerry’s greatest talents was creating research pretexts to travel to the far corners of the globe. He explored England and continental Europe, first as a student and later when he returned regularly for research. Once he had settled into his career at the University of Toronto, Jerry sought adventure with his young family while teaching for a year in places which did not at the time attract many Western academics - Algeria in the 1960s, India in the 1970s, China in the early 1980s. In each of these places he found expectations about teaching, university administration and social interactions vastly different, often baffling, and always entertaining. The volume concludes with three essays in which Jerry chronicles his academic endeavours, as a scholar of William Blake, forms the basis of the most important collection of Blake works in Canada. With eloquence and humour, Jerry brings to life in Boondoggles the people he met and the grandeur of the places he visited, as both a restless professor and an endlessly curious observer of human nature, long before the era of mass tourism made such travels commonplace.
Book Synopsis Blake in Our Time by : Karen Mulhallen
Download or read book Blake in Our Time written by Karen Mulhallen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work. Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.
Book Synopsis Selected Poems: Blake by : William Blake
Download or read book Selected Poems: Blake written by William Blake and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits dominate and the mind is the gateway to Heaven. This collection of his greatest works spans his entire poetic life from the early, exquisite lyrics of Poetic Sketches to his Songs of Innocence and Experience - a compelling exploration of good and evil. Together, they illuminate a self-made realm that has fascinated artists and poets as diverse as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Yeats and Ginsberg.
Book Synopsis 30 Great Myths about the Romantics by : Duncan Wu
Download or read book 30 Great Myths about the Romantics written by Duncan Wu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex andconfusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply,30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity towhat we know – or think we know – about one ofthe most important periods in literary history. Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated withRomanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarifyseveral of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of thisera Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romanticsthat have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist – for examplethat they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in freelove; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with hissister Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideasthat have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture– from Blake’s Jerusalem and Keats’sOde on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of thevampire Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarlyintroduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applyingthe most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths thatcontinue to shape our appreciation of their work
Book Synopsis Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness by : Susan Matthews
Download or read book Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness written by Susan Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
Book Synopsis Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by : Noah Heringman
Download or read book Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology written by Noah Heringman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.
Book Synopsis Blake and Tradition by : Kathleen Raine
Download or read book Blake and Tradition written by Kathleen Raine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake and Tradition is an investigation of the sources of Blake's knowledge of the Neoplatonic and Hermetic tradition and allied currents of thought. The volumes contain what was then new information on Blake's vast fund of exact knowledge in these fields, and Kathleen Raine interprets his works in the light of the ideas that originally inspired and informed them. The core of this important work of scholarship formed the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in 1962 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The expanded, two-volume work was originally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1969.
Download or read book Seduction written by Clement Knox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox explores seduction in all its historical and cultural incarnations. Moving from the Garden of Eden to the carnivals of eighteenth-century Venice, and from the bawdy world of Georgian London to the saloons and speakeasies of the Jazz Age, this is an exploration of timeless themes of power, desire, and free will. Along the way we meet Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Mary Shelley, and her friend Caroline Norton, and reckon with their fight for women’s rights and freedoms. We encounter Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, who became entangled in America's labyrinthine and racialized seduction laws. We discover how tall tales of predatory vampires, hypnotists, and immigrants were mobilized by Nazis and nativists to help propel them to power. We consider how after seduction seemingly vanished from view during the Sexual Revolution, it exploded back into our lives as The Game became a multi-million bestseller, online dating swept the world, and the ongoing male fascinating with manipulating women was exposed. In a big-thinking cultural history told through an extraordinary range of stories and sources, Knox explores how our ideas about desire and pursuit have developed in step with the modern world. This is a bold, modern charter of seduction, from the birth of the Enlightenment to the explosion of romantic literature and right up to our contemporary moments of reckoning around “incel” culture and #MeToo.
Book Synopsis Blake & Tradition V1 by : Kathleen Raine
Download or read book Blake & Tradition V1 written by Kathleen Raine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This is a collection of topics of A.W.Mellon Lectures of fine Arts stemming from 1962 on the works of Blake. This volume looks at Blake’s work in three sections; ‘The Northern Sun’, ‘The Myth of The Soul’ and ‘Zoas of Physical Life’. Includes works such as ‘Tireil’, Blake’s Cupid and Psyche’ and ‘Enion’
Book Synopsis Blake & Tradition V2 by : Kathleen Raine
Download or read book Blake & Tradition V2 written by Kathleen Raine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This is a collection of topics of A.W.Mellon Lectures of fine Arts stemming from 1962 on the works of Blake. This volume looks at Blake’s work in three discussions; Reason, Perception and ‘What is Man’. Includes poems such as The Tyger, The Ancient Trees and The Sickness of Albion.
