Author: Mark LoveridgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A history of fable in written and illustrative media from classical times to 1800 and beyond.
A History of Augustan Fable
Author: Mark LoveridgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A history of fable in written and illustrative media from classical times to 1800 and beyond.
Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Author: Katherine ButlerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783273712
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Author: Emrys JonesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137300507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms
Author: Everett ZimmermanPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This collection of twelve essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Everett Zimmerman treats four topics that Zimmerman explored during his career: the representation of the self in narratives, the early British novel and related forms, their epistemological and generic borders, and their intellectual and cultural contexts. The collection is divided into two sections: Boundaries and Forms. The essays in Boundaries explore how epistemological and narrative distinctions between history and fiction meet or overlap in the novel's relationship to other forms, including providential history, travel narratives, uptopias, autobiography, and visual art. In Forms, the contributors investigate fictional, historical, and material forms; the impact those cultural phenomena had on the meaning and value attributed to literary works; and how such forms arose in response to historical conditions. The essays describe the historical range of Zimmerman's work, beginning with Defoe and ending with Coetzee, and treat such key writers of the long eighteenth century as Fielding, Richardson, Walpole, Austen, and Scott. Bakersfield. Robert Mayer is Professor of English and Director of the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University.
Arthur Golding’s 'A Moral Fabletalk' and Other Renaissance Fable Translations
Author: Liza BlakePublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1781886067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
This volume brings together five translations of Aesopian fables that range from the beginning to the end of the English Renaissance. At the centre of the volume is an edition of the entirety of Arthur Golding’s manuscript translation of emblematic fables, A Morall Fabletalke (c. 1580s). By situating Golding’s text alongside William Caxton’s early printed translation from French (1485), Richard Smith’s English version of Robert Henryson’s Middle-Scots Moral Fabillis (1577), John Brinsley’s grammar school translation (1617), and John Ogilby’s politicized fables translated at the end of the English Civil War (1651), this book shows the wide-ranging forms and functions of the fable during this period.
The World of Elizabeth Inchbald
Author: Daniel J. EnnisPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532581
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World (1753-1756).
Jane Williams (Ysgafell)
Author: Gwyneth Tyson RobertsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The first full account of the life and work of a nineteenth-century woman who carved out a unique career as an important writer in English on Welsh subjects. It is a major contribution to history of women’s writing in English. It is also a major contribution to knowledge of Welsh Writing in English in the nineteenth century.
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Author: David HopkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199219818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
"The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
On Second Thought
Author: Debra Taylor BourdeauPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139754
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Every ending marks a potential beginning; every act of reading is, in a very real sense an act of re-writing; and to revise is, literally, to re-see. These bits of conventional wisdom underlie the topic explored in this volume's collection of essays by literary critics who want to know more about the instinct to continue and the impulse to revise an existing text.
British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Amanda HinerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108945090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars on eighteenth-century British women satirists showcases women's contributions to the satiric tradition and challenges the assumption that women were largely targets, rather than practitioners, of satire during the long eighteenth century. The essays examine women's satires across diverse genres, from the fable to the periodical, and attend to women writers' appropriation of a literary style and form often viewed as exclusively masculine. The introduction features a new theory of women's satire and proposes a framework for analyzing satiric techniques employed by women writers. Organized chronologically, the contributors' essays address a wide range of authors and explore the ways in which satiric writings by women engaged in contemporary cultural conversations, influencing assumptions about gender, sociability, politics, and literary practices. This inclusive yet tightly-focused collection formulates an innovative and provocative new feminist theory of satire.