British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century – serie
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Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
Av Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring …
Painting the Novel
Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Av Jakub Lipski
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the …
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830
Hours of Folly?
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices …
Bluestockings Now!
The Evolution of a Social Role
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an isolated phenomenon spanning the period from the 1750s through the 1790s. On the contrary, the contributors suggest, the …
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male …
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics
Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern …
Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson
The Novel Individual
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines are uniquely conceived as individuals who embody the agency and self-determination implied by that term. In addition to …
French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a …
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, …
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films
In conversation with Stanley Cavell
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell …
Painting the Novel
Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Av Jakub Lipski
Inbunden, 2017
2879 kr
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Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the …
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830
Hours of Folly?
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices …
Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
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Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British …
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
Av Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R. Beach
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
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In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the …
Graveyard Poetry
Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition
Av Eric Parisot
Häftad, 2016
1060 kr
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While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the …
Bluestockings Now!
The Evolution of a Social Role
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an isolated phenomenon spanning the period from the 1750s through the 1790s. On the contrary, the contributors suggest, the …
Graveyard Poetry
Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition
Av Eric Parisot
Inbunden, 2013
3146 kr
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While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the …
Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson
The Novel Individual
Inbunden, 2013
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines are uniquely conceived as individuals who embody the agency and self-determination implied by that term. In addition to …
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
Av Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R. Beach
Inbunden, 2013
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the …
Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
Inbunden, 2014
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British …
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics
Translation in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2014
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern …
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male …
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, …
French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a …
Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
Av Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring …
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films
In conversation with Stanley Cavell
Inbunden, 2016
3146 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell …
