Author: Cynthia WallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Author: Cynthia WallA Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Author: Cynthia WallPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470757493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.
Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Author: Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
Author: Markman EllisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351568663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1840
Book Description
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.
Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-century England
Author: Anja MüllerPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409426189
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions and concepts of identity were mediated in England in the long eighteenth century. Central to the project is consideration of the ways historically specific categories of identity, determined by class, gender, nationality, political factions and age, are negotiated through and interact with the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre.
Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrin BerndtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110650444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.
Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Alexander DickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: J. A. DowniePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191651079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel.
Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1688-1783
Author: Jeremy BlackPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350306924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789
Author: Paul BainesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444390082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century