Author: John BowlePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Percy
Author: John BowleIllustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Amadis in English
Author: Helen MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance AmadÃs de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century by John Nichols
Author: Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Account to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John Bowyer NicholsIllustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John NicholsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108077412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 923
Book Description
This eight-volume set, published 1817-58 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols' Literary Anecdotes (1812-15), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we now take for granted were first being developed.
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