Author: Helen Maria WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Letters written in France in the summer 1790, to a friend in England: containing various anecdotes relative to the French Revolution ... The third edition
Author: Helen Maria WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrina O'LoughlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108599923
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.
Dyce Collection: Printed books, L to Z
Author: South Kensington Museum. Dyce collectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Dyce Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce. Printed Book L to Z
Author: John ForsterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385379385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts
Author: Alexander DycePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385252873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Crisis in Representation
Author: Steven BlakemorePublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.
The Majesty of the People
Author: Georgina GreenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199689067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty, connecting theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer to the developing contestation of the concept of the majesty of the people during the 1790s.
A War of Ideas
Author: Emma Vincent MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429841906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.
Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Author: Gail OrgelfingerPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271084278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over a period of four hundred years, from her capture in 1429 to the early nineteenth century. The variety of epithets attached to Joan of Arc—from “witch” and “Medean virago” to “missioned Maid” and “shepherd’s child”—attests to England’s complicated relationship with the saint. While portrayals of Joan in English popular culture evolved over the centuries, they do not follow a straightforward trajectory from vituperation to adulation. Focusing primarily on descriptions of Joan’s captivity, trial, and execution, this study shows how the exigencies of politics and the demands of genre shaped English retellings of her military successes, gender transgressions, and execution at the hands of her English enemies. Orgelfinger’s research illuminates how and why English writers and artists used the memory of Joan of Arc to grapple with issues such as England’s relationship with France, emerging protofeminism in the early modern era, and the sense of national guilt over her execution. A systematic analysis of Joan’s English historiography in its political and social contexts, this volume sheds light on four centuries of English thought on Joan of Arc. It will be welcomed by specialist and general readers alike, especially those interested in women’s studies.
Author: Helen Maria Williams