[PDF] The Surprise Or Constancy Rewarded eBook

Author : Christopher R. Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801455782

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Christopher R. Miller studies the shift in the cultural meaning of "surprise" in 18th-century England from connoting violent attack to encompassing pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling.

Author : Cynthia Sundberg Wall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022622502X

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Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.

Author : Cheryl Turner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415044111

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Based on a listing of novels, authors and publication details from 1696 to 1796, the study traces the pattern of growth of women's fiction and offers an explanation fot the rise of women writers as a group during this period.

Author : George Frisbie Whicher
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Although Mrs. Haywood was evidently not responsible for the inclusion of her tale in "The Female Dunciad," and although the piece itself was entirely innocuous, her daring to raise her head even by accident brought down upon her another scurrilous rebuke, not this time from the poet himself, but from her former admirer, Richard Savage.

Author : Eliza Haywood
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460400429

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Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding’s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela’s preoccupation with virtue. This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women’s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.

Author : Charlotte E. Morgan
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434421260

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Columbia University Press published this Ph.D. disseration of Charlotte E. Morgan (1882-?).