Author: Percie Trowbridge HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Critical History of English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Percie Trowbridge HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mark LongakerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Degeneration
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Mark 1900-1985 LongakerPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014879967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Mark LongakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography as a literary form
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Appalachian Pastoral
Author: Michael S. MartinPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1638040192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This project overall attempts to recast Appalachian literature in terms of a ‘lost tradition’ of texts that are generally out-of-print though of central importance to understanding the history of the region and its current environmental and cultural challenges. The epilogue will also consider the way that ecological-based literary criticism offers a vital language for how antebellum travel writers sought to frame the region from a 19th-century environmental point of view. The book aims to resituate the field of Appalachian Studies to an earlier historic genesis in the 19th-century and bring to light several books which have received scant scholarly attention in the canon of Appalachian and American literature, respectively. The book centers on the argument that mid-19th-century travel writers going through or from the Appalachian region drew on familiar versions of 18th-century European, mainly British, landscape aesthetics that would help make the readerly experience less alien to their erudite regional and Northern audiences. These travel writers, such as Philip Pendleton Kennedy and David Hunter Strother, consciously appropriated such aesthetic tropes as the pastoral as a way to further dramatic the effect in their nonfiction accounts of Appalachia, while the reader could find such references comforting as they considered whether to domesticate or tour the Appalachian region.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789
Author: Paul BainesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444390082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Inner Life of Empires
Author: Emma RothschildPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.
The Victorian Eighteenth Century
Author: B.W. YoungPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Exploring the Victorian fascination with the generation of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Brian Young illuminates Victorian intellectual, religious, and cultural history. Examining the work of men such as Thomas Carlyle, the book reveals how the Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth century, both metaphorically and literally.
