Author: Thomas PercyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Ancient Ballads; Selected from Percy's Collection ... By a Lady
Author: Thomas PercyAncient Ballads: selected from Percy's Collection; with explanatory notes, ... for the use of young persons. By a Lady. With plates
Author: Thomas PercyRomantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend
Author: Katie GarnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women’s place in literary history.
Corporate Medievalism II
Author: Karl FugelsoPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy's Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History", salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin's Gates of Hell, film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.
The Ballad Book. A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by W. Allingham
Author: William AllinghamMonthly Review
Author: George Edward GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon
Author: Steve NewmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.