Описание: An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon`s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon`s view. This book maintains that the "dispute" was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Автор: Regan Shaun Название: Reading 1759 ISBN: 1611484782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611484786 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French writing, and ideas. Examining key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, the volume presents a wide-ranging account of the year`s work in literature and the key issues that preoccupied writers at this time.
Автор: Carrithers Michael Название: Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life ISBN: 0857458000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857458001 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4110.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Название: Realism and its vicissitudes ISBN: 1433130165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433130168 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 12422.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject from the traditional Festschrift theme of the honoree’s compelling contributions to the study of realism and the novel’s role in history, to chapters on Susan Sontag’s experimental films, the thought of the late Marxist philosopher Andr? Gorz, silence in the graphic novel, and linguistic disparities between American and Standard Italian – attests to the plasticity of Sandy Petrey’s mind and the ample indications of his work. Best-known (and well-loved) for his often gruff, no-nonsense style in teaching and prose, Petrey is celebrated by those whose careers and ideas he has helped to nurture, inform, and embolden. This collection is a fine text for courses in nineteenth-century as well as contemporary French studies and literature.
Автор: Marsden Название: The Re-Imagined Text ISBN: 0813156130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813156132 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shakespeare`s plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words.
Описание: Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar`s Opera, Gulliver`s Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the author breaks new ground in revealing that familiarity with this technique lived on into the eighteenth century, supplying the more artistically aware of the early British novelists with meaningful formal guidelines.
An account is given of the origins and continuity of the numerological tradition in Western European - and particularly English - thought as it affected literary structure. The careful structural patterning in the novels of Defoe and in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones is examined in detail. Smollett, too, is shown to have been interested in exploring the possibilities of number and pattern, and the clear-cut numerological framework of Sterne's Tristram Shandy is revealed.
This original and controversial study combines structural analysis with fresh interpretative insights, and draws parallels with painting, music and architecture. It also has an important bearing on the history of ideas in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Автор: Richards Kenneth R., Thomson Peter Название: Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage ISBN: 0367445115 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367445119 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. Originally published in 1972, the eleven papers collected in this title follow this historical emphasis.
Автор: Meehan Michael Название: Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth Century England ISBN: 0367445077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367445072 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The qualities and achievements of eighteenth century English literature have suffered denigration as a result of a prevailing Whig interpretation of literary history. It is the contention of this book, originally published in 1986, that an alternative form of Whig interpretation is possible and even desirable.
Chapter 2. Pastoral Authorship and Porcelain Figurines: Pope's Elite Aesthetic and the Fashionable Decorative Commodity by Lauren Miskin
Chapter 3. "Magnificent as well as Singular" Hester Thrale's Polynesian Court Dress of 1781 by Serena Dyer
Chapter 4. Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson's Nobody by Terry F. Robinson
Chapter 5. Nobleman Incognito: Byron's Albanian Dress by Gerald Egan
Chapter 6. Fraser's Magazine and the Instability of Literary Fashion by Richard Salmon
Chapter 7. Fashioning Femininity in the 1840s: Charlotte Brontл and Villette by Birgitta Berglund
Chapter 8. No Room for the 'Woman of Fashion': Male Authorship, Anti-fashion, and Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White by Loretta Clayton
Chapter 9. The Writer and the Couturiиre: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s by Patricia Zakreski
Chapter 10. 'Down to the last button . . . in the fashion of the hour': Virginia Woolf and the Writer of Modern Fiction by Randi Koppen
Chapter 11. Fashioning Modern and Modernist Authorship: Rebecca West in the 1920s and 1930s by Margaret D. Stetz
Chapter 12. Fashion as Self-Authorship, Escape from Fascist Terror, and Witness Testimony by Phyllis Lassner
Chapter 13. Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter's Authorial Self-Fashioning by Kimberly J. Lau
Chapter 14. "Style description: / Provenance: / Period: " Martin Margiela, Fashion Authorship and Romantic Literary History by Timothy Campbell
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Автор: Copley Stephen Название: Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England ISBN: 0367444739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367444730 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1984, this anthology of 18th century writings about contemporary society is divided into parts on the social order, economics, the poor and crime, with an introduction identifying some of the main social discourses of the time. They reflect the emergence of an embryonic capitalist society.
Автор: Rogers Pat Название: The Eighteenth Century: The Context of English Literature ISBN: 0367445301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367445300 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver`s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar`s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history.
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