Author: Michael John Franklin
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book is a detailed textual analysis It offers a Welsh perspective A feminist approach.
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Author: Marianna D’Ezio
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443818917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar with Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the light she came to be known in her lifetime and after: first, as the “formidable hostess” of Streatham House, South London, and then as an outcast from respectable eighteenth-century society after she had married the Italian piano teacher of her daughter. As a writer, her importance has long been that of a footnote to Samuel Johnson and as a consequence, she has been part of the official British literary canon only as a character. This volume introduces Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi as a whole, trying to link her fascinating and subversive biography to her development as a writer, emphasizing the innovative issues of her works, her style and her social and personal beliefs. Piozzi’s biography is an interesting example of the dynamic scene of the late eighteenth century, where she was both conservative and subversive: she was an eccentric, and although her decision to marry the Italian singer and composer Gabriele Piozzi disgraced her, it was through this act of subversion that Hester Thrale Piozzi could finally make her own entrance into the world as a public writer. Once she had transgressed the social codes of so-called “feminine” behaviour, she was also ready to move into the public sphere, publish her works and make money out of them, pioneering several traditional literary genres through her passionate search for professional independence in the literary canon of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443818917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar with Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the light she came to be known in her lifetime and after: first, as the “formidable hostess” of Streatham House, South London, and then as an outcast from respectable eighteenth-century society after she had married the Italian piano teacher of her daughter. As a writer, her importance has long been that of a footnote to Samuel Johnson and as a consequence, she has been part of the official British literary canon only as a character. This volume introduces Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi as a whole, trying to link her fascinating and subversive biography to her development as a writer, emphasizing the innovative issues of her works, her style and her social and personal beliefs. Piozzi’s biography is an interesting example of the dynamic scene of the late eighteenth century, where she was both conservative and subversive: she was an eccentric, and although her decision to marry the Italian singer and composer Gabriele Piozzi disgraced her, it was through this act of subversion that Hester Thrale Piozzi could finally make her own entrance into the world as a public writer. Once she had transgressed the social codes of so-called “feminine” behaviour, she was also ready to move into the public sphere, publish her works and make money out of them, pioneering several traditional literary genres through her passionate search for professional independence in the literary canon of the eighteenth century.
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)
Author: James Lowry Clifford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Author: Michael John Franklin
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book is a detailed textual analysis It offers a Welsh perspective A feminist approach.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book is a detailed textual analysis It offers a Welsh perspective A feminist approach.
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Piozzi Marginalia
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)
Author: James Lowry Clifford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
3 Letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The French Journals of Mrs. Thrale and Doctor Johnson
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This collection includes Mrs. Thrale's French Journal, 1775, Dr. Johnson's French Journal, & Mrs. Piozzi's French Journey, 1784. Illus.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This collection includes Mrs. Thrale's French Journal, 1775, Dr. Johnson's French Journal, & Mrs. Piozzi's French Journey, 1784. Illus.