Author: Elbridge ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A Bibliography of Thomas Holcroft
Author: Elbridge ColbyA Bibliography of Thomas Holcroft
Author: Elbridge ColbyThe Life of Thomas Holcroft
Author: Thomas HolcroftRe-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809
Author: A.A. MarkleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131706366X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler, Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.
The Life of Thomas Holcroft
Author: Thomas HolcroftPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 1
Author: Wil VerhoevenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist
Author: Thomas TaylorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691198535
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of Plato and Aristotle. Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a "golden chain of philosophers," a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged again and again, enriched in the School of Alexandria, in Renaissance art, in the works of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats. Kathleen Raine is well known as a poet. GEorge Mills Harper is Professor of English, University of Florida. Bollingen Series LXXXVIII. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Recollections of a Literary Life
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Thomas Abthorpe Cooper
Author: Geddeth SmithPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
It was in part for this service to the American public at large that Presidents John Tyler and James K. Polk awarded him, late in his life, with an appointment to the Customs House at the Port of New York, where, venerable and white-haired, Cooper held a position during the final years of his life, still a handsome and striking figure as he went about the routine duties of a customs inspector.
Thomas Holcroft
Author: Joseph RosenblumPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The first chapter discusses Holcroft's early life. The next three chapters examine his theories and practice as critic, dramatist and novelist, placing his writing within the context of the age and noting his literary debts. The fifth chapter concentrates on Holcroft's political views, which led to Holcroft's indictment for high treason in 1794. The final chapter provides a summary. Includes annotated bibliography and an index.