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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Argentum: Or, Adventures of a Shilling
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Pages : 184
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Pages : 184
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Argentum: Or, Adventures of a Shilling
Author: Argentum
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Author: Lynn Festa
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental texts can be made to tell a simple story about the emergence of the modern psychological self. Placed in conversation with empire, however, sentimentality invites both psychological and cultural readings of the encounter between self and other. Sentimental texts, Festa claims, enabled readers to create powerful imagined relations to distant people. Yet these emotional bonds simultaneously threatened the boundaries between self and other, civilized and savage, colonizer and colonized. Festa argues that sentimental tropes and figures allowed readers to feel for others, while maintaining the particularity of the individual self. Sentimental identification thus operated as a form of differentiation as well as consolidation. Festa contends that global reach increasingly outstripped imaginative grasp during this era. Sentimentality became an important tool for writers on empire, allowing conquest to be portrayed as commerce and scenes of violence and exploitation to be converted into displays of benevolence and pity. Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental texts can be made to tell a simple story about the emergence of the modern psychological self. Placed in conversation with empire, however, sentimentality invites both psychological and cultural readings of the encounter between self and other. Sentimental texts, Festa claims, enabled readers to create powerful imagined relations to distant people. Yet these emotional bonds simultaneously threatened the boundaries between self and other, civilized and savage, colonizer and colonized. Festa argues that sentimental tropes and figures allowed readers to feel for others, while maintaining the particularity of the individual self. Sentimental identification thus operated as a form of differentiation as well as consolidation. Festa contends that global reach increasingly outstripped imaginative grasp during this era. Sentimentality became an important tool for writers on empire, allowing conquest to be portrayed as commerce and scenes of violence and exploitation to be converted into displays of benevolence and pity. Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human.
Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s
Author: A. Markley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.
British It-Narratives, 1750-1830, Volume 1
Author: Mark Blackwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
It-narratives are prose fictions that take as their central characters animals or inanimate objects. This four-volume reset collection includes numerous examples of narratives in different forms, including short stories, excerpts from novels, periodical fiction and serialized works.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
It-narratives are prose fictions that take as their central characters animals or inanimate objects. This four-volume reset collection includes numerous examples of narratives in different forms, including short stories, excerpts from novels, periodical fiction and serialized works.
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Pages : 612
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A Gothic Bibliography
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Catalogue of Sams's Royal Subscription Library, ... Comprising an Extensive Collection of Standard Works, and All the Most Interesting Modern Publications ...
Author: Joseph Sams
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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4 bookseller's catalogues
Author: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Pages : 1054
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London Catalogue of Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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