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Author | : A. Ingram |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230306594 |
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Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
Author | : John Baker |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526123355 |
Download Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the notion of the ‘self’ as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self.
Author | : Robert DeMaria, Jr. |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118732421 |
Download A Companion to British Literature, Volume 3 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past 13 centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject"--Provided by publisher
Author | : Allan Ingram |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137487631 |
Download Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.
Author | : Jaap Grave |
Publisher | : V&R Unipress |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3847005200 |
Download Illness and Literature in the Low Countries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer's Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the "Corpus Hippocraticum" of antiquity until the "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis" (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.
Author | : Leigh Wetherall Dickson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2024-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040248837 |
Download Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Author | : Blair Hoxby |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191082392 |
Download Milton in the Long Restoration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French Revolution or the Reform Bill of 1832. What gets overlooked in such accounts is the rich story of Milton's relationship to his contemporaries and early eighteenth-century heirs. The essays in this collection demonstrate that some of Milton's earliest readers were more perceptive than Romantic and twentieth-century interpreters. The translations, editions, and commentaries produced by early eighteenth century men of letters emerge as the seedbed of modern criticism and the term 'neoclassical' is itself unmasked as an inadequate characterization of the literary criticism and poetry of the period—a period that could brilliantly define a Miltonic sublime, even as it supported and described all the varieties of parody and domestication found in the mock epic and the novel. These essays, which are written by a team of leading Miltonists and scholars of the Restoration and eighteenth century, cover a range of topics—from Milton's early editors and translators to his first theatrical producers; from Miltonic similes in Pope's Iliad to Miltonic echoes in Austen's Pride and Prejudice; from marriage, to slavery, to republicanism, to the heresy of Arianism. What they share in common is a conviction that the early eighteenth century understood Milton and that the Long Restoration cannot be understood without him.
Author | : Clark Lawlor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108368980 |
Download Literature and Medicine: Volume 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.
Author | : Amelia Worsley |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2024-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501776290 |
Download Singing by Herself Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Singing by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest records of the terms "lonely" and "loneliness" in British literature describe solitaries whose songs positioned them within the tradition of female complaint. Amelia Worsley shows how these feminized solitaries, for whom loneliness was both a space of danger and a space of productive retreat, helped to make loneliness attractive to future lonely poets, despite the sense of suspicion it evoked. Although loneliness today is often associated with states of atomized interiority, soliloquy, and self-enclosure, this study of eighteenth-century poetry disrupts the presumed association between isolation, singular speech, and bounded models of poetic subjectivity. In five chapters focused on lonely poet figures in the works of John Milton, Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Charlotte Smith—which also take account of the wider eighteenth-century fascination with literary loneliness—Singing by Herself shows how poets increasingly associated the new literary mode of being alone with states of disembodiment, dispersal, and echoic self-doubling. Seemingly solitary lonely voices often dissolve into polyvocal, allusive community, Worsley argues, when in dialogue with each other and also with classical figures of feminized lament such as Sappho, Echo, and Philomela. The book's provocative reflections on lyric mean that it will have a broad appeal to scholars interested in the history of poetry and poetics, as well as to those who study the literary history of gender, affect, and emotion.
Author | : Clark Lawlor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108420869 |
Download Literature and Medicine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.