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Author : Hannah Doherty Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100932196X
Explores the Romantic conviction that there were 'too many' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521829199
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801887054
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108418929
Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.
Author : Susan Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108831575
Demonstrates how Walter Scott, one of Romanticism's most globally influential authors, put Scotland's ecologies at the heart of nineteenth-century writing.
Author : Anne Toner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107073014
A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.
Author : Allen Reddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521568388
This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : London; New York : Macmillan
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1896
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Random House
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448181984
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth