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Author | : Jon Mee |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199591741 |
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Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. A welter of publications-periodical essays, novels, and poetry-enjoined the virtues of conversation and were enthusiastically discussed in book clubs and literary societies, creating their own conversable worlds.
Author | : Alison Elizabeth Hurley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2002 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robin Valenza |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139482815 |
Download Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680–1820 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialised, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought.
Author | : Alexander Cook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320166 |
Download Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.
Author | : Phil Jones |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1835536565 |
Download Reading Samuel Johnson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines how Samuel Johnson was assimilated by later writers, ranging from James Boswell to Samuel Beckett. It is as much about these writers as Johnson himself, showing how they found their own space, in part, through their response to Johnson, which helped shape their writing and view of contemporary literature.
Author | : Cynthia Aalders |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2024-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198872305 |
Download The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women's life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women's spiritual and writing lives.
Author | : Andrew O. Winckles |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786940604 |
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Andrew O. Winckles is Assistant Professor of CORE Curriculum (Interdisciplinary Studies) at Adrian College. Angela Rehbein is Associate Professor of English at West Liberty University.
Author | : David Bromwich |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674127753 |
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For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Sarah Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192569562 |
Download The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors' reading habits, burnish their own professional profiles, and establish a literary canon. Auditors wielded their own considerable influence, since their sustained approbation was necessary to a lecturer's success, and independent series could collapse midway if attendance waned. Two chapters are therefore devoted to the auditors, whose creative responses to what they heard often constituted cultural works in their own right. Auditors wrote poems and letters about lecture performances, acted as patrons to lecturers, and hosted dinners and conversation parties that followed these events. Prominent auditors included John Keats, Mary Russell Mitford, Henry Crabb Robinson, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, and Lady Charlotte Bury. The Romantic public literary lecture is a fascinating cultural phenomenon in its own right, but understanding the medium has significant implications for some of the period's most important literary criticism, such as Coleridge's readings of Shakespeare and Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818). The book's two main aims are to chart the emergence of the literary lecture as a popular medium and to develop a critical approach to these events by drawing on an interdisciplinary discussion about how to treat historical speaking performances.
Author | : Bruce Buchan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317052501 |
Download Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.