Author: Colette H. Winn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317944585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame, to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.
Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women
Author: Colette H. Winn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317944585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame, to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317944585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame, to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.
Madame de Svign
Author: Frances Mossiker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231061537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231061537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.
Reading Typographically
Author: Geoffrey Turnovsky
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503639169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading as an immersive activity, exemplified by the experience of "losing oneself in a book." Against the backdrop of digital distraction and fragmentation, such immersion leads readers to become more focused, collected, and empathetic. How did we come to see the printed book as especially suited to deliver this experience? Print-based reading practices have historically included a wide range of modes, not least the disjointed scanning we associate today with electronic text. In the context of religious practice, literacy's benefits were presumed to lie in such random-access retrieval, facilitated by indexical tools like the numbering of Biblical chapters and verses. It was this didactic, hunt-and-peck reading that bound readers to communities. Exploring key evolutions in print in 17th- and 18th-century France, from typeface, print runs, and format to punctuation and the editorial adaptation of manuscript and oral forms in print, this book argues that typographic developments upholding the transparency of the printed medium were decisive for the ascendancy of immersive reading as a dominant paradigm that shaped modern perspectives on reading and literacy.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503639169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading as an immersive activity, exemplified by the experience of "losing oneself in a book." Against the backdrop of digital distraction and fragmentation, such immersion leads readers to become more focused, collected, and empathetic. How did we come to see the printed book as especially suited to deliver this experience? Print-based reading practices have historically included a wide range of modes, not least the disjointed scanning we associate today with electronic text. In the context of religious practice, literacy's benefits were presumed to lie in such random-access retrieval, facilitated by indexical tools like the numbering of Biblical chapters and verses. It was this didactic, hunt-and-peck reading that bound readers to communities. Exploring key evolutions in print in 17th- and 18th-century France, from typeface, print runs, and format to punctuation and the editorial adaptation of manuscript and oral forms in print, this book argues that typographic developments upholding the transparency of the printed medium were decisive for the ascendancy of immersive reading as a dominant paradigm that shaped modern perspectives on reading and literacy.
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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