Author: Denise BulckaenPublisher: Presses Universitaires de Nancy
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Dictionary of Characters in Tobias Smollett's Novels
Author: Denise BulckaenPublisher: Presses Universitaires de Nancy
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:
Author: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1638040826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.
The Eighteenth Century
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Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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A Dictionary of European Literature
Author: Laurie MagnusPublisher:
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Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
The Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography; Embracing a Series of Original Memoirs of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Countries, Living and Dead. To which is Added, a Classified List of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Times, Arranged Chronologically. Illustrated by ... Portraits, Etc
Author: Dictionaries. - BiographyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Author: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611480485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but in the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a "travel narrative" but Jones argues that it should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.
Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction
Author: Kamilla ElliottPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money,the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver's licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and C. R. Maturin as well as artists, historians, politicians, and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culture—specifically, who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power. Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics, epistemologies, semiotics, and aesthetics, and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literature's best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total, expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work. -- Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona
The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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