Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The Idler Magazine
Author: The Idler
Author: Jerome Klapka JeromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Idler
Author: The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion
Author: A Cosmography of Man
Author: Theresa SchönPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110612135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily on the representation of contemporary manners. In shaping such behavioural images, the authors made use of the satirical character sketch. Their character sketches (re)create social interactions between fictionalised representatives of moral types of men and women located in contemporary London. This study examines how Addison and Steele employed the character sketch to create a ‘cosmography’ of (wo)man by actively engaging with the observational approaches of contemporary naturalists. Addison and Steele adapted distinctly empirical methods (e.g. induction and deduction, note taking, repeated and collective observation) and appropriated the (medico-legal) case study to communicate and disseminate socio-moral knowledge. At the same time, the character sketch served them as a means to establish a taxonomic order of the socio-moral knowledge conveyed in the texts. The study sheds new light on the literary techniques and the methodological frameworks of two journals essentially associated with the British - and the European - Enlightenment.
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay ...
Author: Fanny BurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
An Idler
Author: John HayPublisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN: 1933146117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
John Hay's distinguished national service began when he was Lincoln's private secretary and continued until up to his death as Secretary of State for two presidents. This book discusses Hay's own battles with depression and how he believed his condition to be similar to Samuel Johnson's in the 18th century as well as to his chief, Abraham Lincoln.
Author: Fanny Burney
Author: John Ward
Author: G. L. Dawson Damer