Author: George William MacArthur ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Ellen Percy
Author: George William MacArthur ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
The American Stud Book
Author: The American Catalogue
Author: Ellen Percy; Or, The Memoirs of an Actress
Author: George William MacArthur ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Masquerade and Gender
Author: Catherine Craft-FairchildPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period&—Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential. Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman.
Ellen Percy
Author: Therese HuberPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 178
Book Description
Ungewohnt, in einem öffentlichen Fuhrwerk zu reisen, war ich anfangs, wie ich mich mit ein paar fremden Menschen in dem Wagen eingeschlossen sah, über meine Keckheit erschrocken. Ich zog meinen Hut in's Gesicht, drückte mich, als würde mich das ihrem Blicke entziehen, in die Kutschenecke hinein und wagte kaum zu athmen. Bald gewahrte ich, daß sie mich gar nicht beachteten; der kleine Weg ward ohne Störung fortgesetzt, so daß ich nicht mehr die Ueberfahrt, aber die Ankunft in London fürchtete. Die erstere hatte Miß Mortimers Barbara bei meinem Einsteigen bezahlt, indeß ich, gedankenlos für alles außer dem Zweck meiner Reise, mich so wenig mit Gelde versehen hatte, daß es mir beim Aussteigen an Mitteln fehlte, einen Miethwagen zu nehmen. Die Noth zwang mich, den Laden des Kaufmanns, mit dem ich meinen Handel machen wollte, zu Fuße aufzusuchen; und jetzt in einer der volkreichsten Straßen von London war ich nun wirklich den neugierigen Blicken, den kecken Anreden einiger Männer ausgesetzt und gerieth darüber so außer mir, daß ich, wie ich den Laden erreichte, gar nicht wahrnahm wie ein Wagen mit der du Burgh'schen Livree vor ihm hielt. Er war voll geputzter vornehmer Leute, aber nur Eine Gestalt zog meine Augen an – meine herzlose Freundin.
Ellen Percy; Or, the Memoirs of an Actress
Author: George W M 1814-1879 ReynoldsPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341612701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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Godey's Lady's Book
Author: Louis Antoine GodeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Includes music.
Author: Lady Lydia Scott