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Author : Michèle Plaisant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book L'excentricité en Grande-Bretagne au 18e siècle written by Michèle Plaisant and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Viviès
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351940007
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century written by Jean Viviès and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to Corsica and account of his trip to Scotland with Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne's enigmatic Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett's Travels through France and Italy. Negotiating between inventory and invention, these texts invite a reconsideration of conventional generic distinctions. They open up a literary space in which the full significance of the real and fictional journey motif can be explored.
Author : Miranda Gill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191562416
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris written by Miranda Gill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.
Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079166
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830 written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.
Author : Marie-Paule Laden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858453
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Self-Imitation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Marie-Paule Laden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear'' either as a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly adequate or unified. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Rocco Coronato
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004458557
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Jonson Versus Bakhtin written by Rocco Coronato and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Jonson has often been accused of needless erudition and of a morose refusal to join in the festive spirit. Further aggravation has come from the application of Bakhtin’s theory of carnival, especially in its posthumous form as a political allegory portraying the clash of high and low cultures. In an attempt to turn the tables on this tradition, Jonson Versus Bakhtin goes back to the sources, arguing that Jonson’s theatre allows for an original interpretation of the grotesque as a formal culture of antithesis and opposition that includes carnival. A robust observer of popular myths of festive liberation by way of a uniquely compendious adaptation of his sources, Jonson’s grotesque uncannily delves deep into the Renaissance theory of the coincidence of opposites as a way of envisaging virtue and other concepts of the mind, rather than serving up a pompous application of moral precepts or offering a political arena for ritual transgression. While richly based on an appropriate repertory of underlying sources, Jonson Versus Bakhtin steers away from any tiresome reference hunting mania, appealing to a broader audience interested in re-appraising Ben Jonson’s genius for richly contrastive imagery, as well as re-considering the relevance of Bakhtin’s theory to Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and to the Renaissance culture of the grotesque.
Author : Université de Lille III. Centre d'études victoriennes
Publisher : Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN 13 : 9782859390884
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Victorian writers and the city written by Université de Lille III. Centre d'études victoriennes and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comme pour l'anglais du XXe siècle finissant, la Ville - qu'il s'agisse de Londres ou des cités industrielles du Nord - était pour les sujets de la reine Victoria à la fois un paradis et un enfer. Peu d'écrivains de l'époque l'ont méconnue; ils ont, selon leur culture, leur sensibilité, leur tempérament, réagi de façons contradictoires à un phénomène d'une ampleur sans précédent, qui a été, et demeure, au centre des débats politiques et sociaux. Les essais contenus dans ce volume reflètent la variété des attitudes victoriennes envers l'urbanisation. Ils évoquent les dures réalités de la misère et de la corruption, les conclusions des enquêtes menées dans un labyrinth où trouvaient place aussi bien la criminalité qu'une culture nouvelle; mais ils montrent aussi la magie de la ville, "douce cité d'illusion, de mythes, d'aspirations et de cauchemars", qui, selon Jonathan Raban, est aussi réelle, sinon plus, que la cité perceptible dans les statistiques et les études des sociologues, des démographes et des architectes. Les principaux auteurs traités sont Charles Kingsley, John Ruskin, Frederic Harrison, George Gissing, Arthur Morrison et Rudyard Kipling. Les six essais qui leur sont consacrés sont précédés d'un essai plus général écrit par un spécialiste reconnu de la civilisation urbaine britannique. L'ensemble entend apporter un complément original aux études parues sur la question en Angleterre depuis une douzaine d'années. Il reflète l'ambiguïté des jugements humains devant un phénomène tangible, émminemment analysable, dont procèdent de multiples visions subjectives et substantielles.
Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804714686
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Masquerade and Civilization written by Terry Castle and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199246408
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Englishness Identified written by Paul Langford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire.These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolutionof the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622622
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 7 written by Royal Historical Society and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume seven of the sixth series will include: 'The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: IV Language and Historical Mythology', Rees Davies; 'The Limits of Totalitarianism: God, State and Society in the GDR', Mary Fulbrook; 'History as Destiny: Gobineau, H. S. Chamberlain and Spengler', Michael Biddiss; 'Constructing the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of the Royal Frankish Annals', Rosamond McKitterick; 'England, Britain and the Audit of War', Kenneth Morgan; 'The Cromwellian Decade: Authority and Consent', C. S. L. Davies; 'Place and Public Finance', R. W. Hoyle; 'The Parliament of England', Pauline Croft; 'Thomas Cromwell's Doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty', Conrad Russell; 'Religion', Christopher Haigh; 'Sir Geoffrey Elton and the Practice of History', Quentin Skinner.
Author : Liliane Blary
Publisher : Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN 13 : 9782859390648
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Myth and ideology in american culture written by Liliane Blary and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1976 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce volume - le premier publié par le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Nord-Américaines et Canadiennes de l'Université de Lille III - comprend une série d'articles sur un aspect difficile à cerner mais pourtant capital de la civilisation américaine contemporaine: le travail du mythe et de l'idéologie dans ses diverses manifestations exhaustives - que serait d'ailleurs une analyse "exhaustive" de l'idéologie? Mais il tente d'effectuer une saisie de cette question en examinant un très large éventail de textes. Dans la première partie sont interrogés successivement les poèmes de Erza Pound, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser; les romans de Henry James et ceux de Dashiell Hammet; la production picturale des Hyperréalistes. Dans la deuxième partie, les études s'organisent autour de la problèmatique des minorités dans la société américaine et plus particulièrement de la minorité noire. On y trouve des études sur Booker T. Washington, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, la musique noire et le problème des quotas. Cet ensemble, varié par les domaines abordés mais très cohérent par la perspective qu'il adopte, apporte une contribution substantielle à une branche des études américaines en plein développement.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Soulier-Detis
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718896998
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Guess at the Rest written by Elisabeth Soulier-Detis and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose ambiguity and apparent paradoxical relation with the eighteenth-century situations depicted have often been underlined, gain coherence and unity when they are analyzed in the symbolic framework of freemasonry and alchemy Hogarth was busy both using and concealing in his prints. The coded meaning is often entirely at odds with the surface one, a factsuspected but never proved by critics so far. A very original and titillating book for academics and general reader alike. Readers will be intrigued by the secrecy of symbols from mythological, biblical and Masonic references and hidden codes that have to be deciphered. Furthermore, they will be also left intrigued by the secret message that the very popular and well-known painter is attempting to deliver. Academics will be interested in the book since this thorough approach has never been proposed by any of Hogarth's scholars so far."
Author : Patrick Rafroidi
Publisher : Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN 13 : 9782859391119
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Ireland at the crossroads written by Patrick Rafroidi and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1979 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Ireland keeps eternal values, it is also a country that, yesterday economically under-developed, is now preparing, slowly but surely, its entry into the twenty-first century. This unprecedented mutation in its already turbulent history, affects Irish politics, industry, trade...
Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307547981
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book That Sweet Enemy written by Robert Tombs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship—rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection—and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightful images and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That Sweet Enemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined to become a classic.
Author : Carl Joseph Stratman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research written by Carl Joseph Stratman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Editions Bréal
ISBN 13 : 2749522935
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (495 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
