Author: Katharine Cleland
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501753487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author: Theresa M. Kelley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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Botany in the romantic era played a role in debates about life, nature, and knowledge, as evidenced in this ambitious, beautifully illustrated study. Winner, 2012 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary discourses meet. Clandestine Marriage explores the meaning and methods of how plants were represented and reproduced in scientific, literary, artistic, and material cultures of the period. Theresa M. Kelley synthesizes romantic debates about taxonomy and morphology, the contemporary interest in books and magazines devoted to plant study and images, and writings by such authors as Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Letitia Barbauld. Period botanical paintings of flowers are reproduced in vibrant color, bringing her argument and the romantics' passion for plants to life. In addition to exploring botanic thought and practice in the context of British romanticism, Kelley also looks to the German philosophical traditions of Kant, Hegel, and Goethe and to Charles Darwin’s reflections on orchids and plant pollination. Her interdisciplinary approach allows a deeper understanding of a time when exploration of the natural world was a culture-wide enchantment.
Author: George Colman
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: George Colman (the Elder)
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Ellen Wallace
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Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Author: George Colman
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: George Colman
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: George Colman
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: George Colman
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: Ellen Wallace
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336874819X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
