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Selections from The Female Spectator
Av Eliza Haywood, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Inbunden, 1999
944 kr
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a …
Selections from The Female Spectator
Av Eliza Haywood, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Häftad, 1999
1441 kr
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a …
Selections from The Female Spectator
Av Eliza Haywood, Patricia Meyer Spacks
E-bok, 1999
654 kr
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important English female novelist of the early eighteenth century. She also edited several serial newspapers, the most important of which, the Female Spectator , was the first modern periodical written by a woman and addressed to a female audience. This …
Desire and Truth
Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
Inbunden, 1990
714 kr
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Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates …
Boredom
The Literary History of a State of Mind
Häftad, 1996
371 kr
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This text offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, the author shows us how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our …
Privacy
Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self
E-bok, 2011
1155 kr
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Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about …
Novel Beginnings
Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Inbunden, 2006
1198 kr
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A celebratory history and appreciation of the varied, wildly experimental nature of fiction in eighteenth-century EnglandIn this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings …
Gossip
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip--as subject and literary technique--in plays, letters, biographies, and novels.
Pride and Prejudice
An Annotated Edition
Av Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Inbunden, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
352 kr
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“Jane Austen lovers worldwide will cherish these books...Prepare yourself for a major treat.” —Christian Science Monitor Handsome enough to tempt.Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most beloved novel—a witty, insightful portrait of love, family, and society that has captivated readers for over …
Sense and Sensibility
An Annotated Edition
Av Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Inbunden, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
352 kr
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“Jane Austen lovers worldwide will cherish these books...Prepare yourself for a major treat.” —Christian Science MonitorWhen you fall in love with this book, it will be forever.Sense and Sensibility, published anonymously in 1811: “By A Lady,” marked Jane Austen’s début as a novelist. Austen’s real …
On Rereading
Häftad, 2013
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
364 kr
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After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was …
Female Imagination
A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women''s Writing
E-bok, 2022
643 kr
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Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there something about a novel, whether by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Doris Lessing, that tells us that it could only have been written by a woman? Do the …
Female Imagination
A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women''s Writing
E-bok, 2022
657 kr
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Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there something about a novel, whether by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Doris Lessing, that tells us that it could only have been written by a woman? Do the …
Female Imagination
A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women's Writing
Inbunden, 2022
2466 kr
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Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there something about a novel, whether by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Doris Lessing, that tells us that it could only have been written by a woman? Do the …
Female Imagination
A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women's Writing
Häftad, 2024
564 kr
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Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there something about a novel, whether by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Doris Lessing, that tells us that it could only have been written by a woman? Do the …
Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Inbunden, 2009
1513 kr
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Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer SpacksExposes the multiplicity …
Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Häftad, 2009
532 kr
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Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer SpacksExposes the multiplicity …
Boredom
The Literary History of a State of Mind
Inbunden, 1995
472 kr
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This work offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our …
Privacy
Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self
Inbunden, 2003
528 kr
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Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in 18th-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about …
Persuasion
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Häftad, 2012
81 kr
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This revised Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition text (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817). The editor has spelled out ampersands and made superscript letters lowercased. The novel, which is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations, is followed by the …
