Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writers
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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A History of English Literature
Author: John BuchanPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Literature of the Highlands
Author: Magnus MacLeanPublisher: London : Blackie
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Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A History of Literary Criticism
Author: Harry BlamiresPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349214957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Invention of the Oral
Author: Paula McDowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.
An Outline Sketch of English Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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An Outline Sketch of American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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