Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel. Although her poetry was appreciated by poets such as Alexander Pope for its metrical craftsmanship, beauty, and imagery, by the time of her death in 1737 she was better known for her fiction. According to Paula R. Backscheider, Rowe's major focus in her novels was on creating characters who were seeking a harmonious, contented life, often in the face of considerable social pressure. This quest would become the plotline in a large number of works in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it continues to be a major theme today in novels by women. Backscheider relates Rowe’s work to popular fiction written by earlier writers as well as by her contemporaries. Rowe had a lasting influence on major movements, including the politeness (or gentility) movement, the reading revolution, and the Bluestocking society. The author reveals new information about each of these movements, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe emerges as an important innovator. Her influence resulted in new types of novel writing, philosophies, and lifestyles for women. Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel
Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel. Although her poetry was appreciated by poets such as Alexander Pope for its metrical craftsmanship, beauty, and imagery, by the time of her death in 1737 she was better known for her fiction. According to Paula R. Backscheider, Rowe's major focus in her novels was on creating characters who were seeking a harmonious, contented life, often in the face of considerable social pressure. This quest would become the plotline in a large number of works in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it continues to be a major theme today in novels by women. Backscheider relates Rowe’s work to popular fiction written by earlier writers as well as by her contemporaries. Rowe had a lasting influence on major movements, including the politeness (or gentility) movement, the reading revolution, and the Bluestocking society. The author reveals new information about each of these movements, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe emerges as an important innovator. Her influence resulted in new types of novel writing, philosophies, and lifestyles for women. Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel. Although her poetry was appreciated by poets such as Alexander Pope for its metrical craftsmanship, beauty, and imagery, by the time of her death in 1737 she was better known for her fiction. According to Paula R. Backscheider, Rowe's major focus in her novels was on creating characters who were seeking a harmonious, contented life, often in the face of considerable social pressure. This quest would become the plotline in a large number of works in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it continues to be a major theme today in novels by women. Backscheider relates Rowe’s work to popular fiction written by earlier writers as well as by her contemporaries. Rowe had a lasting influence on major movements, including the politeness (or gentility) movement, the reading revolution, and the Bluestocking society. The author reveals new information about each of these movements, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe emerges as an important innovator. Her influence resulted in new types of novel writing, philosophies, and lifestyles for women. Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.
Whitman's Print-collector's Handbook
Author: Alfred Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Standard Books
Author: Charles Frederick Tweney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Annual Library Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Including periodicals, American and English; essays, book-chapters, etc.; bibliographies, necrology, index to dates of principal events.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Including periodicals, American and English; essays, book-chapters, etc.; bibliographies, necrology, index to dates of principal events.
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Hackley Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts
Author: St. Bride Foundation Institute. Technical Reference Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Restoration England 1660-1689
Author: William Lewis Sachse
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521081719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521081719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description