The Publisher

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Pages : 1116

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The Publisher

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record

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Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Biennial Report of the Librarian of the State Library for the Fiscal Years Ending October 31 ... and ..., and ... Biennial Supplement to the General Catalogue

Biennial Report of the Librarian of the State Library for the Fiscal Years Ending October 31 ... and ..., and ... Biennial Supplement to the General Catalogue PDF Author: Indiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 982

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Sister Novelists

Sister Novelists PDF Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635575303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.

Manchester Public Free Libraries. Index-Catalogue of the Rochdale Road Lending Branch

Manchester Public Free Libraries. Index-Catalogue of the Rochdale Road Lending Branch PDF Author: Public Free Libraries (MANCHESTER)
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Pages : 146

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The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814

The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814 PDF Author: Morgan Rooney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term "history" itself, were multiple and far reaching. Morgan Rooney elucidates these subtleties clearly and convincingly. While political writers of the 1790s--Burke, Price, Mackintosh, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and others--debate the historical meaning of the Glorious Revolution as a prelude to broader ideological arguments about the significance of the past for the present and future, novelists engage with this discourse by representing moments of the past or otherwise vying to enlist the authority of history to further a reformist or loyalist agenda. Anti-Jacobin novelists such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, and Jane West draw on Burkean historical discourse to characterize the reform movement as ignorant of the complex operations of historical accretion. For their part, reform-minded novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, and Maria Edgeworth travesty Burke's tropes and arguments so as to undermine and then redefine the category of history. As the Revolution crisis recedes, new novel forms such as Edgeworth's regional novel, Lady Morgan's national tale, and Jane Porter's early historical fiction emerge, but historical representation--largely the legacy of the 1790s' novel--remains an increasingly pronounced feature of the genre. Whereas the representation of history in the novel, Rooney argues, is initially used strategically by novelists involved in the Revolution debate, it is appropriated in the early nineteenth century by authors such as Edgeworth, Morgan, and Porter for other, often related ideological purposes before ultimately developing into a stable, nonpartisan, aestheticized feature of the form as practiced by Walter Scott. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814 demonstrates that the transformation of the novel at this fascinating juncture of British political and literary history contributes to the emergence of the historical novel as it was first realized in Scott's Waverley (1814).

British Books

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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