Author: John SheppardPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Letters After a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, in 1816
Author: John SheppardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Mistress of Udolpho
Author: Rictor NortonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847142699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a conventional Anglican, background. This places Radcliffe within the circle of other women writers nurtured in radical Dissenting backgrounds (such as Wollstonecraft, Hays, Inchbauld and Barbauld). Radcliffe's childhood and family background are documented and the rumours of her madness and reclusiveness investigated leading to an evaluation of the resons for her probable mental breakdown. The text constitutes a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place within radical culture, literary tradition and aesthetic discourse, and examining her role in the rise of the professional woman writer. Her novels are analyzed mainly in the context of her biography and sources.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution, With The Charter Laws And Regulations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, with an Account of the Institution, Charters, Laws and Regulations
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Alpine Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Summer in the Shadow of Byron
Author: Andrew McConnell StottPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857868942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Dr Polidori could not believe his luck. That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary and her step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity from which would emerge Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction, Byron's Childe Harold, Shelley's Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori, the first great vampire novel. It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalise them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.
