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Equivocal Beings

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226401790
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Equivocal Beings written by Claudia L. Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."

On the Borders of Being and Knowing

Author : John P. Doyle
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058678954
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book On the Borders of Being and Knowing written by John P. Doyle and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Borders of Being and Knowing begins with Greeks distinguishing "being" from "something" and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of "supertranscendental being," which embraces both.

Philosophy of Being

Author : Gerard Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725276291
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Being written by Gerard Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Domain of Being

Author : Celestine M. Bittle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3868382682
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Domain of Being written by Celestine M. Bittle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accordance with the purpose as an introduction for students, the scope of the book is frankly positive and constructive. It attempts to build up an understanding of the matter of ontology in a logical manner, using simple language, illustrating the subjects with copious examples, and extracting the contents of each chapter into compact summaries. Some of the more abstruse problems of ontology, such as the problem of essence and existence, have been omitted; it was felt that the average student would derive little benefit from a lengthy discussion of problems which have taxed the ingenuity and acumen of the most profound intellects. Such problems may be attacked after the student has become acquainted with the ideas and subjects which form the foundation of the science of metaphysics. After all, the student cannot be expected to be a professional philosopher; it should be sufficient if he acquires a thorough grounding in fundamentals, so that he can deepen his knowledge through subsequent reading and study. In a general way we may define metaphysics as the science of the ultimate principles and properties of real beings.

Without the Novel

Author : Scott Black
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813942853
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Without the Novel written by Scott Black and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No genre manifests the pleasure of reading—and its power to consume and enchant—more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel demonstrates what literary history looks like from the perspective of such readerly excesses and adventures. Rejecting the assumption that novelistic realism is the most significant tendency in the history of prose fiction, Black asks three intertwined questions: What is fiction without the novel? What is literary history without the novel? What is reading without the novel? In answer, this study draws on the neglected genre of romance to reintegrate eighteenth-century British fiction with its classical and Continental counterparts. Black addresses works of prose fiction that self-consciously experiment with the formal structures and readerly affordances of romance: Heliodorus’s Ethiopian Story, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Fielding’s Tom Jones, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and Burney’s The Wanderer. Each text presents itself as a secondary, satiric adaptation of anachronistic and alien narratives, but in revising foreign stories each text also relays them. The recursive reading that these works portray and demand makes each a self-reflexive parable of romance itself. Ultimately, Without the Novel writes a wider, weirder history of fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the pleasures of reading that define the genre.

The Historical Austen

Author : William H. Galperin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202015
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Austen written by William H. Galperin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories—literary, aesthetic, and social—The Historical Austen is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, The Historical Austen sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing "things as they are," they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary Lady Susan and the uncompleted Sanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice—notably, free indirect discourse—but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument.

Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 146040131X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft wrote these two novellas at the beginning and end of her years of writing and political activism. Though written at different times, they explore some of the same issues: ideals of femininity as celebrated by the cult of sensibility, the unequal education of women, and domestic subjugation. Mary counters the contemporary trend of weak, emotional heroines with the story of an intelligent and creative young woman who educates herself through her close friendships with men and women. Darker and more overtly feminist, The Wrongs of Woman is set in an insane asylum, where a young woman has been wrongly imprisoned by her husband. By presenting the novellas in light of such texts as Wollstonecraft’s letters, her polemical and educational prose, similar works by other feminists and political reformists, the literature of sentiment, and contemporary medical texts, this edition encourages an appreciation of the complexity and sophistication of Wollstonecraft’s writing goals as a radical feminist in the 1790s.

The Talk in Jane Austen

Author : Jane Austen Society of North America
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643742
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Talk in Jane Austen written by Jane Austen Society of North America and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen's sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue. Features contributions from Juliet McMaster, Isobel Grundy, Linda Bree, Gary Kelly, Jan Fergus, Jocelyn Harris, Kay Young and others.

The Works of Washington Irving...

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Washington Irving... written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of a Traveller

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of a Traveler

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Tales of a Traveler written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teaching Romanticism

Author : D. Higgins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230276482
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Romanticism written by D. Higgins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, written by leading academics, presents innovative, practical approaches to teaching traditional and newer aspects of the curriculum and is essential to anyone teaching Romanticism at university level.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

Author : Catherine Packham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100939584X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy written by Catherine Packham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as incisive critic of the material, moral, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity.

Alhambra

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Alhambra written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Smile of Discontent

Author : Eileen Gillooly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226294025
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Smile of Discontent written by Eileen Gillooly and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like sex, Eileen Gillooly argues, humor has long been viewed as a repressed feature of nineteenth-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James, Gillooly finds an understated, wryly amusing perspective that differs subtly but significantly in rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression. Gillooly shows how such humor became, for mostly female writers at the time, an unobtrusive and prudent means of expressing discontent with a culture that was ideologically committed to restricting female agency and identity. If the aggression and emotional distance of irony and satire mark them as "masculine," then for Gillooly, the passivity, indirection, and sympathy of the humor she discusses render it "feminine." She goes on to disclose how the humorous tactics employed by writers from Burney to Wharton persist in the work of Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, and Penelope Fitzgerald. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.

Dying to be English

Author : Kelly McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323106
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Dying to be English written by Kelly McGuire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.