Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521300094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521300094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521300094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian Newman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855605
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855605
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199284806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's last literary work, the Lives of the Poets, offers a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to Johnson's own time. Always recognized as a major contribution to English biography and criticism, it is also one of Johnson's most readable and eloquent achievements. This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume two of four.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199284806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's last literary work, the Lives of the Poets, offers a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to Johnson's own time. Always recognized as a major contribution to English biography and criticism, it is also one of Johnson's most readable and eloquent achievements. This is the first scholarly edition since 1905 and includes a full introduction and critical apparatus. This is volume two of four.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
Author: H. B. Nisbet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
The British Essayists
Author: Alexander Chalmers
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Pages : 456
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The British Essayists. With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, by James Ferguson ...2d Ed
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Pages : 408
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The British Essayists: World
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Pages : 440
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Pages : 440
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The British Essayists: World
Author: James Ferguson
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The World
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Pages : 402
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The British Essayists
Author: James Ferguson (Advocate.)
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Pages : 420
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Pages : 420
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