Author: FrancePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Prophetic Conjectures on the French Revolution and other recent and shortly expected events ... with an introduction and remarks
Author: FranceProphetic Conjectures Referring to the French Revolution
Author: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
American Bibliography: 1793-1794
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
Author: A Catalogue of Theological Books, Forming a Part of the Library of William Harrison, Esq. of Cheshunt, Herts
Author: William HarrisonRomantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Author: Orianne SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107328543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, from Helen Maria Williams to Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley - through the lens of their prophetic influence. As this book demonstrates, Romantic women writers not only thought in millenarian terms, but they did so in a way that significantly alters our current critical view of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
Author: Morton D. PaleyPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191584681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.
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