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Romanticism and the Letter

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030293106
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and the Letter written by Madeleine Callaghan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature. Although the correspondence of the Romantics constitutes a major literary achievement in its own right, it has received relatively little critical attention. Essays focus on the letters of major poets, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats; novelists and prose writers, including Jane Austen, Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb; and lesser-known writers such as Melesina Trench and Mary Leadbeater. Moving from theories of letter writing, through the period’s diverse epistolary culture, to essays on individual writers, the collection opens new perspectives for students and scholars of the Romantic period.

The Republic of Letters

Author : Dena Goodman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481741
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Letters written by Dena Goodman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodman chronicles the story of the Republic of Letters from its earliest formation through major periods of change: the production of the Encyclopedia, the proliferation of a print culture that widened circles of readership beyond the control of salon governance, and the early years of the French Revolution.

Engendering the Republic of Letters

Author : Susan Dalton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571523
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Engendering the Republic of Letters written by Susan Dalton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

Author : Madeleine de Scudery
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226144127
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues by : Madeleine de Scudery

Download or read book Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues written by Madeleine de Scudery and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her writing and defended women's education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's Amorous Letters, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her Famous Women, or Heroic Speeches, and her series of Conversations. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.

Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century

Author : B. Khaldi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137106662
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century written by B. Khaldi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity.

Philosophy and Life

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241993210
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Life written by A. C. Grayling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker 'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent _______________ From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live 'There is a question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact, has to keep on asking and keep on answering. It is, 'How should I live my life?' meaning, 'What values shall I live by? 'What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?' The great majority of people do not ask this question, they merely answer it unthinkingly, by adopting conventional views of life and what matters in it...' From Stoics to existentialists, in philosophy and literature, discussion of the philosophy of life -- of love and death, of courage, fortitude and wisdom -- challenges us all to think about what kinds of life are truly worth living. In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about this great question, A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves. Drawing on the lives, experiences and works of a fantastically eclectic range of thinkers -- taking in not only philosophers such as Confucius, Seneca and Nietzsche, but also authors from Shakespeare to Ursula LeGuin, and modern thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum and Bernard Williams - Philosophy and Life brings together wisdom from across eras and continents in a tour de force on the philosophy of being human in a complicated world.

Postal Culture: Reading and Writing Letters in Post-Unification Italy

Author : Gabriella Romani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442647086
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Postal Culture: Reading and Writing Letters in Post-Unification Italy by : Gabriella Romani

Download or read book Postal Culture: Reading and Writing Letters in Post-Unification Italy written by Gabriella Romani and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix includes letters transcribed from Italian newspapers.

Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585095
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition by : Hilda L. Smith

Download or read book Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584221
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Author : S. Schmid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137063742
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries written by S. Schmid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.

Revealing Difference

Author : Jenene J. Allison
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135664
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Revealing Difference written by Jenene J. Allison and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.

Germaine de Staël in Germany

Author : Judith E. Martin
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470358
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Germaine de Staël in Germany written by Judith E. Martin and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise Mühlbach. These authors drew a significant impetus from Staël's exemplary life and writings, especially her influential novels of political and artistic heroines, Delphine (1802) and Corinne, or Italy (1807), referring to them in order to authorize their own discourses on art and politics, and to buttress their identity as writers in a period when female authorship generated intense controversy. Taking references to Staël and her texts as a starting point opens fresh perspectives on German women's novels, while at the same time revealing their authors' participation in the broader European women's literary tradition. Whereas several novels from the first decade of the century echo Delphine by uniting domestic fiction with political themes, Staël's epoch-making novel of female poetic genius, Corinne, left a more lasting literary legacy in a tradition of German female artist novels. Corinne exemplified the creative woman's dilemma between fame and love, and subsequent German novelists explore this conflict, while several also emulate Staël's myth-making in Corinne as a strategy for attributing transcendent genius to their heroines. Reading for subtexts of female self-expression and development brings to light counter-narratives of female creative transcendence, often evoked through allusions to mythological figures. Martin suggests a revision of German literary history by uncovering a neglected tradition of artist novels positioned between the German Künstlerroman and Staël's newly inaugurated international dialogue on women's role in public culture.

The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith

Author : Lucia McMahon
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813947871
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith written by Lucia McMahon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year 1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany, history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith’s fascinating life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon reveals a larger narrative about women’s efforts to enact learned and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike, McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque tourism, celebrity culture, and women’s literary productions, McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before we are no longer surprised?"

The World of the Salons

Author : Antoine Lilti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199772347
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Salons written by Antoine Lilti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal

Author : Faith E. Beasley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487502842
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal written by Faith E. Beasley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century "orientalism," Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's "Great Century."

Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664

Author : Diana G. Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317141946
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664 written by Diana G. Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form, printed letter collections make private matters public, and in so doing reveal, first how tenuous is the divide between these two realms in the early modern period and, second, how each collection helps to constitute particular communities of readers. Consequently, as Epistolary Community details, epistolary visions of community were gendered. This book provides a genealogy of epistolary discourse beginning with an introductory discussion of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser’s Wise and Wittie Letters (1580), and opening into chapters on six printed letter collections generated at times of political change. Among the authors whose letters are examined are Angel Day, Michael Drayton, Jacques du Bosque and Margaret Cavendish. Epistolary Community identifies broad patterns that were taking shape, and constantly morphing, in English printed letters from 1580 to 1664, and then considers how the six examples of printed letters selected for discussion manipulate this generic tradition to articulate ideas of community under specific historical and political circumstances. This study makes a substantial contribution to the rapidly growing field of early modern letters, and demonstrates how the field impacts our understanding of political discourses in circulation between 1580 and 1664, early modern women’s writing, print culture and rhetoric.

Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind

Author : Anna Battigelli
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183855
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind written by Anna Battigelli and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.