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Author | : Christopher D Johnson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351624989 |
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A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding’s works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding’s artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read author who sought to claim a place within literary culture for women’s experiences. As a practical didacticist, Fielding sought to teach her readers to live happier, more fulfilling lives by appropriating and at times resisting the texts that defined their culture. While Fielding often retreats from the overtly political concerns that captured the attention of her contemporaries, her works are daring forays into the public sphere that both challenge and reinforce the foundations of British society. Giving voice to those who have been marginalized, Fielding’s creative productions are at once conservative and radical, revealing her ambiguous appreciation for tradition, her fears of modernity, and her abiding commitment to women who must live within forever imperfect worlds.
Author | : Christopher D Johnson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351624997 |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The making of a novelist -- 2 Her own story, The Adventures of David Simple -- 3 Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters of David Simple -- 4 The Governess, a new experiment in fiction -- 5 Forays into literary criticism -- 6 David Simple, Volume the Last -- 7 Collaboration and innovation, The Cry -- 8 The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia -- 9 The History of the Countess of Dellwyn -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index
Author | : Gillian Skinner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351003402 |
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Sarah Fielding was one of the most respected women authors of her generation and a key figure in the development of the novel. She was admired especially by Samuel Richardson, who famously commented that her ‘knowledge of the human heart’ was greater than that of her brother, the novelist Henry Fielding. This edition revives The Countess of Dellwyn, the only one of Sarah Fielding’s major works not previously available in a modern scholarly edition. The novel is satirical and didactic, taking as its targets fashionable life and modern marriage (and scandalous divorce) and narrated with acerbic wit by its anonymous third-person narrator. This edition benefits greatly from Gillian Skinner’s editorial work and it is a book that will be of great interest to researchers into the eighteenth-century novel and women’s writing of the period worldwide.
Author | : Arnold Edwin Needham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : Mary Alvernon Hartman |
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Genre | : England |
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Download Sarah Fielding and Her Contribution to the Social Thinking of Her Age ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : J A Downie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317314824 |
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Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what 'being a Whig' meant to Fielding.
Author | : Nicholas Hudson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317323432 |
Download A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.
Author | : Timothy Alborn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000586006 |
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This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before, the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers, as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label, populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843, many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period, this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Author | : Amanda Hiner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108837360 |
Download British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women's satire.
Author | : Alex Eric Hernandez |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192585762 |
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The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's literature tells a very different story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the sorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. Whereas neoclassical aesthetics aligned tragedy with the heroic and the admirable, this 'bourgeois and domestic tragedy' treated the pain of common people with dignity and seriousness, meditating upon a suffering that was homely, familiar, entangled in the nascent values of capitalism, yet no less haunted by God. Hence, where many have seen aesthetic stagnation, misfiring emotion, and the absence of an idealized tragicness in the genre, this volume sees instead a sustained engagement in the emotional processes and representational techniques through which the middle rank feels its way into modernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy turns the critical account of eighteenth-century tragedy on its head. It reads the genre's emergence in the period as a vigorous cultural conversation on whose life—and whose way of life—is grievable, as well as how mourning might be performed