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Author : Mrs. Chapone (Hester)
Publisher : William Pickering
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, 1773 written by Mrs. Chapone (Hester) and published by William Pickering. This book was released on 1996 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Webster Foster
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481079
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Coquette and The Boarding School written by Hannah Webster Foster and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitman’s experiences in her heroine, Eliza Wharton, Foster created a compelling narrative of seduction that was hugely successful with readers. The Boarding School, a less widely known work by Foster, is an experimental text, part epistolary novel and part conduct book. Together, the novels explore the realities of women’s lives in early America. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition, which explore female friendship and the education of women in the novels, frame Foster as more than a purveyor of the sentimental novel, and re-evaluate her placement in American literary history.
Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429969458
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley written by David Waldstreicher and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography “[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic “Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best.” —Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule; before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. She demonstrated a complex but crucial fact of the times: that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery. In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, “Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.”
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176473
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary, and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines, and comprehensive index complement the essays"--
Author : Betty A. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107128161
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture written by Betty A. Schellenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first examination of interconnected manuscript-exchanging coteries as an integral element of literary culture in eighteenth-century Britain. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Daniel R. Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199219176
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Historical Writing written by Daniel R. Woolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from c.1400 to c.1800.
Author : Paul Keen
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810922
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Age of Authors written by Paul Keen and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through an age of extraordinary change. The texts in this collection respond to a series of fundamental questions about the changing nature of the literary field during a tumultuous age: What types of writing mattered in a thriving commercial nation? What kinds of knowledge ought literature to offer, if it was to continue to be relevant? What did it mean to be an author in this busy modern world, and what sorts of social distinction should authors expect to enjoy? The Age of Authors explores the complexity, sophistication, and creativity with which the eighteenth century literary community (or “republic of letters”) responded to the challenges of the time.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322682
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Creation of the Modern World written by Roy Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engagingly written new work highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and culture of the Enlightenment. Moving beyond the numerous histories centered on France and Germany, the acclaimed social historian Roy Porter explains how monumental changes in thinking in Britain influenced worldwide developments. Here is a "splendidly imaginative" work that "propels the debate forward ... and makes a valuable point" (New York Times Book Review).
Author : Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460400291
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe written by Richard B. Sheridan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe revolve around young women who wish the world would conform to novelistic convention. Unlike most eighteenth-century heroines keen on novel reading, however, Lydia Languish and Polly Honeycombe are neither deluded nor in any real danger. Rather, they inhabit a world in which everyone is engaged in some sort of quixotic performance; the more appealing characters are just willing to admit it. Both farcical and wise, these plays teasingly celebrate the perennial appeal of fiction, while never letting us forget how much it relies upon the everyday rituals of performance. The introduction to this Broadview edition explores the interrelations between print and performance in the eighteenth century, including a detailed and well-illustrated account of what it was like to go to the theater. Appendices include material on the original casts, the often dubious reputation of novel reading and circulating libraries, Sheridan’s high-profile elopement with Elizabeth Linley (which made him a celebrity before he ever staged a word), and the narrative possibilities conjured up by setting The Rivals in the resort city of Bath.
Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1778-1840): 1778-June 1781.- v.2. June 1781-August 1786.- v.3. August 1786-June 1788.- v.4. July 1788-July 1791- v.5. July 1791-April 1802.- v.6. April 1802 -January 1840 written by Fanny Burney and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Ann W Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000309312
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering Women Philosophers written by Catherine Ann W Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers interpretations of the work of specific moral philosophers that can be used to present a challenge to what the author have been calling the view of moral philosophy. It focuses on interpreting women moral philosophers and discusses whether women have "prudence" or "natural sense".
Author : Deborah Kaplan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143346X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen among Women written by Deborah Kaplan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement—a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction.
Author : Arja Nurmi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027254281
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800) written by Arja Nurmi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521763088
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition with seven brand new essays.
Author : Charles James Sawyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book English Books 1475-1900: Caxton to Johnson written by Charles James Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118256573
Total Pages : 1668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Romanticism written by Duncan Wu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.” Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary “This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting.” Leslie Brisman, Yale University Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994, and is the most widely used teaching text in the field in the UK. Now in its fourth edition, it stands as the essential work on Romanticism. It remains the only such book to contain complete poems and essays edited especially for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with his explanatory annotations and author headnotes. This new edition carries all texts from the previous edition, adding Keats’s Isabella and Shelley’s Epipsychidion, as well as a new selection from the poems of Sir Walter Scott. All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, are revised for this new edition. Romanticism: An Anthology remains the only textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, The Two-Part Prelude, Michael, The Brothers and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edn, 1786), The Emigrants, Beachy Head Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems) Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion, The Mask of Anarchy and Adonais Keats, Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes Hannah More, Sensibility and Slavery: A Poem Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England As well as generous selections from the works of Mary Robinson, John Thelwall, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Letitia Landon and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Visit www.romanticismanthology.com for resources to accompany the anthology, including a dynamic timeline which illustrates key historical and literary events during the Romantic period and features links to useful materials and visual media.
Author : B. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554806
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Women, Gender and Enlightenment written by B. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
