Author: Hester Lynch PiozziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)
Author: Hester Lynch PiozziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Author: Marianna D’EzioPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443818917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar with Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the light she came to be known in her lifetime and after: first, as the “formidable hostess” of Streatham House, South London, and then as an outcast from respectable eighteenth-century society after she had married the Italian piano teacher of her daughter. As a writer, her importance has long been that of a footnote to Samuel Johnson and as a consequence, she has been part of the official British literary canon only as a character. This volume introduces Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi as a whole, trying to link her fascinating and subversive biography to her development as a writer, emphasizing the innovative issues of her works, her style and her social and personal beliefs. Piozzi’s biography is an interesting example of the dynamic scene of the late eighteenth century, where she was both conservative and subversive: she was an eccentric, and although her decision to marry the Italian singer and composer Gabriele Piozzi disgraced her, it was through this act of subversion that Hester Thrale Piozzi could finally make her own entrance into the world as a public writer. Once she had transgressed the social codes of so-called “feminine” behaviour, she was also ready to move into the public sphere, publish her works and make money out of them, pioneering several traditional literary genres through her passionate search for professional independence in the literary canon of the eighteenth century.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany
Author: Hester Lynch PiozziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Author: Michael John FranklinPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683541X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book is a detailed textual analysis It offers a Welsh perspective A feminist approach.
Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonJohnsoniana
Author: Hester Lynch PiozziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Thraliana
Author: Hester Lynch PiozziPublisher:
ISBN: 9780191824173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Tanya M. CaldwellPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684482267
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.
A Known Scribbler
Author: Frances BurneyPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770481656
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Frances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney’s literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney’s own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right. In addition to Burney’s letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney’s Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) and Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay.