Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century, Tanya M. Caldwell
Автор: Caldwell Berglund Название: Writing lives in the eighteenth century ISBN: 1684482267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684482269 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D'Arblay's son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney's realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Автор: Sorensen Janet Название: The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing ISBN: 0521653274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521653275 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study, first published in 2000, examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing on the relationship between England and one of its `celtic colonies`, Scotland, Janet Sorensen examines how the expansion of the British empire influenced the formation of a national standard English.
What is the role of literary writing in democratic society?
Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control.
Ross argues that--with liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national value--the legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public discourse, and safeguarding public deliberation from the coercions of propaganda. For speech to be truly free, however, there had to be an enabling exception to the rules.
Since the late eighteenth century, Ross suggests, the role of this exception has been performed by the idea of literature. Literature is valued as the form of expression that, in allowing us to say anything and in any form, attests to our liberty. Yet, paradoxically, it is only by occupying no definable place within the public sphere that literature can remain as indeterminate as the public whose self-reinvention it serves.
Описание: In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment.
This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated the changes which the growth of literacy, the proliferation of writing and the emergence of print marketplace made in the social and cultural life of Britain and demonstrated the contingency of the emerging criticism on the technological and economic conditions of book production. The first part focusses on the representation of the tensions created by the emergence of literate society and on the hopes and fears awoken by the expansion of the cultural public sphere caused by the proliferation of print. The second part explores the contribution of literature to the shaping of the roles of authors, readers and patrons in the field of literary production.
Автор: O`loughlin, Katrina (university Of Western Australia, Perth) Название: Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century ISBN: 1107088526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107088528 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A wide-ranging study of women`s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive diplomatic missions, working governesses, and middle-class travellers. Katrina O`Loughlin explores women`s use of the travel genre to authorise their experiences and to engage in contemporary cultural debates.
Автор: Young, Paul J. Название: Seducing the Eighteenth-Century French Reader ISBN: 0754664171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754664178 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cryptology of the long eighteenth century became an explicit discipline of secrecy. Theorized in pedagogical texts that reached wide audiences, multimodal methods of secret writing during the period in England promoted algorithmic literacy, introducing reading practices like discernment, separation, recombination, and pattern recognition.
Автор: Tooley, Brenda Название: Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 0754654354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754654353 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: O`loughlin, Katrina (university Of Western Australia, Perth) Название: Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century ISBN: 1107459338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107459335 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A wide-ranging study of women`s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive diplomatic missions, working governesses, and middle-class travellers. Katrina O`Loughlin explores women`s use of the travel genre to authorise their experiences and to engage in contemporary cultural debates.
Автор: Tooley Название: Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 1138263036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138263031 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on eighteenth-century constructions of symbolic femininity and eighteenth-century women's writing in relation to contemporary utopian discourse, this volume adjusts our understanding of the utopia of the Enlightenment, placing a unique emphasis on colonial utopias. These essays reflect on issues related to specific configurations of utopias and utopianism by considering in detail English and French texts by both women (Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Isabelle de Charriere) and men (Paltock and Montesquieu). The contributors ask the following questions: In the influential discourses of eighteenth-century utopian writing, is there a place for 'woman,' and if so, what (or where) is it? How do 'women' disrupt, confirm, or ground the utopian projects within which these constructs occur? By posing questions about the inscription of gender in the context of eighteenth-century utopian writing, the contributors shed new light on the eighteenth-century legacies that continue to shape contemporary views of social and political progress.
Автор: Vanderheyden Название: Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot`s Writing ISBN: 0367173735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367173739 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot`s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot`s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works.
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