Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
ELEGANT EXTRACTS: Or Useful and Entertaining PIECES of POETRY, Selected for the IMPROVEMENT of YOUTH, IN Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the CONDUCT of LIFE; Being Similar in Design to ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE
Author: Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry
Author: Vicesimus KnoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Elegant Extracts
Author: Shakespeare and Quotation
Author: Julie MaxwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108640001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Shakespeare is the most frequently quoted English author of all time. Quotations appear everywhere, from the epigraphs of novels to the mottoes on coffee cups. But Shakespeare was also a frequent quoter himself - of classical and contemporary literature, of the Bible, of snatches of popular songs and proverbs. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to trace the rich history of quotation from Shakespeare's own lifetime to the present day. Exploring a wide range of media, including Romantic poetry, theatre criticism, novels by Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, political oratory, propaganda, advertising, drama, film and digital technology, the chapters draw fresh connections between Shakespeare's own practices of creative reworking and the quotation of his work in new and traditional forms. Richly illustrated and featuring an Afterword by Margreta de Grazia, the collection tells a new story of the making and remaking of Shakespeare's plays and poems.
Literary History Writing, 1770-1820
Author: April LondonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230283330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
Langland's Early Modern Identities
Author: S. KelenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230608760
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages.
What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)
Author: Susan Allen FordPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350416746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader, so it's perhaps no surprise that many of her characters are also readers-from Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice to Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. Beginning by looking at Austen's own reading as well as her interest in readers' responses to her work, the book then focuses on each of her novels, looking at the particulars of her characters' reading and unpacking the multiple (and often surprising) ways in which what they read informs our reading. What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why) uses Austen's own love of reading to invite us to rethink the ways in which she imagined her characters and their lives beyond the novels.
Romanticism and the Uses of Genre
Author: David DuffPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199572747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Kate RumboldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107132401
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.