Author: J. BURTON (of Rochester?.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Lectures on Female Education and Manners
Author: J. BURTON (of Rochester?.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Lectures on Female Education and Manners
Author: John BurtonLectures on female education and manners ... The fourth edition
Author: J. BURTON (of Rochester?.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Lectures on Female Education and Manners. By J. Burton
Author: Lectures on Female Education and Manners
Author: John BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etiquette for women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jane Austen
Author: Cris YellandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429941846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary, her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her most important contribution to the technique of fiction, free indirect discourse. The book draws extensively on historical sources, especially the work of writers like Johnson, Hugh Blair and Thomas Sheridan, and analyses how Austen negotiated her path between the fundamentally masculine concerns of eighteenth-century prescriptivists and her own situation of a female writer reading her work aloud to a female audience.
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Heather R BeattyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732109X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.
The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism
Author: Richard C. ShaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512807362
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of the age by persuading audiences that less is more. The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism investigates the varied implications of sketching in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century culture. Calling on a wide range of literary and visual genres, Richard C. Sha examines the shifting economic and aesthetic value of the sketch in sources ranging from auction catalogs and sketching manuals to novels that employed scenes of sketching and courtship. He especially shows how sketching became a double-edged accomplishment for women when used to define "proper" femininity. Sha's work offers fresh readings of Austen, Gilpin, Wordsworth, and Byron, as well as less familiar writers, and provides sophisticated interpretations of visual sketches. As the first full-length work about sketching during the Romantic era, this volume is a rich interdisciplinary study of both representation and gender.
Anthologia Hibernica
Author: Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Josephine KammPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135155798
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls’ education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the progress of popular education and the work of the pioneers who fought to bring girls’ education at every level into line with boys’; and it carries the story into the second half of the twentieth-century to discuss the problem of whether girls are really receiving the right kind of education.