Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
Author: Addison (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,
Author: Mr. AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
Author: AddisonA Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Author: Valerie DerbyshirePublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622737466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Sharon HarrowPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131717142X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Author: Robert BALDOCK
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