Author: Julia Epstein
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299119447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best known as a novelist and social satirist whose work anticipated Jane Austen's, Frances Burney (1752-1840) has also been recognized as an important writer in the history of feminist literature. Julia Epstein now offers a new interpretation of Burney and her work: that Burney's anger at the economic and social conditions of women emerges in her writing in moments of barely contained violence, and that her representations of violence and hostility provide a key to Burney's literary power. The Iron Pen situates Burney's writings within the sociopolitical context of the late eighteenth century and proposes a new approach to the development of the novel of manners. In addition, Epstein presents a comprehensive study of the reception of Burney's work from its original publication to the present. This study illuminates the history of popular book reviewing and of academic literary scholarship as political enterprises. Beginning with an examination of Burney's journals and letters, including an account of the mastectomy she underwent without anesthesia while in exile in Paris in 1811, Epstein then offers readings of Burney's four novels, paying close attention to the depiction of repressed anger and violence that characterizes all her work. The final section traces critics' responses to Burney's published writings from 1778, when her first novel, Evelina, appeared anonymously, to the present in readings informed by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and feminist literary theory. Drawing upon the work of critics of eighteenth-century culture such as Mary Poovey, Ellen Pollak, Ruth Perry, and Margaret Doody, Epstein is successful in two ways: in combining an analysis of a set of texts with an analysis of a particular set of cultural assumptions and in her intentional underscoring of the complex nature of critical practice.
The Iron Pen
Author: Julia Epstein
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299119447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best known as a novelist and social satirist whose work anticipated Jane Austen's, Frances Burney (1752-1840) has also been recognized as an important writer in the history of feminist literature. Julia Epstein now offers a new interpretation of Burney and her work: that Burney's anger at the economic and social conditions of women emerges in her writing in moments of barely contained violence, and that her representations of violence and hostility provide a key to Burney's literary power. The Iron Pen situates Burney's writings within the sociopolitical context of the late eighteenth century and proposes a new approach to the development of the novel of manners. In addition, Epstein presents a comprehensive study of the reception of Burney's work from its original publication to the present. This study illuminates the history of popular book reviewing and of academic literary scholarship as political enterprises. Beginning with an examination of Burney's journals and letters, including an account of the mastectomy she underwent without anesthesia while in exile in Paris in 1811, Epstein then offers readings of Burney's four novels, paying close attention to the depiction of repressed anger and violence that characterizes all her work. The final section traces critics' responses to Burney's published writings from 1778, when her first novel, Evelina, appeared anonymously, to the present in readings informed by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and feminist literary theory. Drawing upon the work of critics of eighteenth-century culture such as Mary Poovey, Ellen Pollak, Ruth Perry, and Margaret Doody, Epstein is successful in two ways: in combining an analysis of a set of texts with an analysis of a particular set of cultural assumptions and in her intentional underscoring of the complex nature of critical practice.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299119447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Best known as a novelist and social satirist whose work anticipated Jane Austen's, Frances Burney (1752-1840) has also been recognized as an important writer in the history of feminist literature. Julia Epstein now offers a new interpretation of Burney and her work: that Burney's anger at the economic and social conditions of women emerges in her writing in moments of barely contained violence, and that her representations of violence and hostility provide a key to Burney's literary power. The Iron Pen situates Burney's writings within the sociopolitical context of the late eighteenth century and proposes a new approach to the development of the novel of manners. In addition, Epstein presents a comprehensive study of the reception of Burney's work from its original publication to the present. This study illuminates the history of popular book reviewing and of academic literary scholarship as political enterprises. Beginning with an examination of Burney's journals and letters, including an account of the mastectomy she underwent without anesthesia while in exile in Paris in 1811, Epstein then offers readings of Burney's four novels, paying close attention to the depiction of repressed anger and violence that characterizes all her work. The final section traces critics' responses to Burney's published writings from 1778, when her first novel, Evelina, appeared anonymously, to the present in readings informed by psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and feminist literary theory. Drawing upon the work of critics of eighteenth-century culture such as Mary Poovey, Ellen Pollak, Ruth Perry, and Margaret Doody, Epstein is successful in two ways: in combining an analysis of a set of texts with an analysis of a particular set of cultural assumptions and in her intentional underscoring of the complex nature of critical practice.
With an Iron Pen
Author: Tal Nitzan
Publisher: Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438426471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.
Publisher: Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438426471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134313713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Pen of Iron
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Examines the way that the King James version of the Bible--especially the Old Testament--has influenced literary style in the works of Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Examines the way that the King James version of the Bible--especially the Old Testament--has influenced literary style in the works of Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy.
Morals on the Book of Job
Author: Pope Gregory I
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Morals on the Book of Job: Parts III and IV
Author: Pope Gregory I
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Author: Adam Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The Holy Bible
Author: Adam Clarke
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Industry Week
Author:
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Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
A Chinese-English Dictionary
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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