Author: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198024274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
Author: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198024274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198024274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Collected papers
Author: Gladwyn Kingsley Noble
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society (Edinburgh)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Masquerade and Civilization
Author: Terry Castle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes, M.A. ...
Author: William Alexander Forbes
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes
Author: Forbes
Publisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Unnatural Affections
Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"... compelling... One draws from Haggerty's very deft readings a strong understanding of the ways in which women writers worked to resist, with greater and lesser success, the increasing demand that gender relations be normalized by imagining ever more possibilities for deviance." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature George Haggerty examines the "unnatural" affections that abound in 18th-century novels. Their portrayal offered a complex understanding of the role of gender and the articulation of female desire during the age in which women novel writers came into their own. The novelists offered romantic friends, effeminized male partners, maimed heroines, paternal obsession, and lesbian couples -- relations that defied cultural taboos of the time
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"... compelling... One draws from Haggerty's very deft readings a strong understanding of the ways in which women writers worked to resist, with greater and lesser success, the increasing demand that gender relations be normalized by imagining ever more possibilities for deviance." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature George Haggerty examines the "unnatural" affections that abound in 18th-century novels. Their portrayal offered a complex understanding of the role of gender and the articulation of female desire during the age in which women novel writers came into their own. The novelists offered romantic friends, effeminized male partners, maimed heroines, paternal obsession, and lesbian couples -- relations that defied cultural taboos of the time
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.
Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830
Author: Elizabeth Eger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521771061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521771061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.