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Sister Novelists

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635575303
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Sister Novelists written by Devoney Looser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.

Sister Carrie

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679641386
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'

The Making of Jane Austen

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422832
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Jane Austen written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

Author : Benjamin Ajak
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395999
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky written by Benjamin Ajak and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a “moving, beautifully written account, by turns warm and tender.” Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses—dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; how they dodged the life-threatening predators—lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike—that dogged their footsteps; and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive.

The Daily Jane Austen

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022665544X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Daily Jane Austen written by Jane Austen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine—“if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad”—to Persuasion’s moving lines of love from its regret-filled hero: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late.” Devoney Looser, a.k.a. Stone Cold Jane Austen, has drawn 378 genuine, Austen-authored passages from across the canon, resulting in an anthology that is compulsively readable and repeatable. Whether you approach the collection on a one-a-day model or in a satisfying binge read, you will emerge wiser about Austen, if not about life. The Daily Jane Austen will amuse and inspire skeptical beginners, Janeite experts, and every reader in between by showcasing some of the greatest sentences ever crafted in the history of fiction.

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887054
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.

The Writer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Writer written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Women Novelists

Author : Reginald Brimley Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Women Novelists written by Reginald Brimley Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ballantyne's Novelist's Library

Author : James Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Ballantyne's Novelist's Library written by James Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pearson's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearson's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Novels and novelists; chapters on the Waverley novels, including the recent editions, with other novel articles

Author : Novels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Novels and novelists; chapters on the Waverley novels, including the recent editions, with other novel articles written by Novels and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230297013
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 written by J. Labbe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels

Author : Lynda A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319507362
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels written by Lynda A. Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen’s minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen’s minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and predators, or become superfluous women who have left the marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence. These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the marriage market economy, exposing women’s limited choices. This book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective individualism.

Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 1)

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9823 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 1) written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 9823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-artnow presents to you the complete novels by one of the greatest novelist of English literature. This collection includes: Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man

Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century

Author : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772892689
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century written by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.

Prose Works: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists, & other distinguished persons; v. 1; Memoir of Samuel Richardson; Henry Fielding; Tobias Smollett; Richard Cumberland; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Lawrence Sterne; Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Alain Rene Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Robert Bage

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prose Works: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists, & other distinguished persons; v. 1; Memoir of Samuel Richardson; Henry Fielding; Tobias Smollett; Richard Cumberland; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Lawrence Sterne; Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Alain Rene Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Robert Bage written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: