Author: Assistant Professor of English Nicholas HudsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198122487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Hazel WilkinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108191495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–6) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every major writer of the century, from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth. What was it like to read Spenser in the eighteenth century? Who made Spenserian books, and how did their owners use and interpret them? The first comprehensive study of all of the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser addresses these questions through bibliographical analysis, and through examination of the history of the book and of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Within these contexts, Hazel Wilkinson provides new information about the production, contents, texts, and reception of the eighteenth-century editions of Spenser, to illuminate how his cultural presence became so far-reaching. With each chapter structured around a major edition of Spenser's work, this volume provides a timely addition to arguments about the nature of literary history and the growing cult of great writers of the past.
Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-century Thought. (1. Issued as a Paperback with Corrections.)
Author: Assistant Professor of English Nicholas HudsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198122487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765 Vol 1
Author: Florian StuberPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245625
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of "Clarissa". The various short works reveal Richardson's reactions to the concerns and issues raised by contemporary readers.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: pt. 1. Index to vols. 1-6. pt. 2. Index to vols. 8-9
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400862124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
America
Author: Victor KiernanPublisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1783606002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equalled the breadth or insight of this seminal text, one of the first to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, employs a nuanced knowledge of history, literature, and politics in tracing the evolution of American power. Far reaching and ambitious in scope, the book combines accounts of the changing relationship between Native Americans and the white population with readings of the works of key cultural figures, such as Melville and Whitman, as well as an analysis of the way in which money and politics became so closely intertwined in American democracy. Also included is a preface by Eric Hobsbawm providing insight into his own views on American imperialism as well as a valuable introduction to Victor Kiernan's work. Together, they shed useful light on such issues as the uses and misuses of American military might, its lack of respect for international agreements, and the right to pre-emptive defence – issues which remain just as urgent today.
The Club
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Helen WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842763
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.
The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain
Author: Sebastian DomschPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110362066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century that not only takes the discursive construction of its (self)representation into account, but also the social and economic conditions of its practice. It tries to consider the whole of the critical discourse on literature and criticism in the time period covered. Thus, it is distinctive through its methodology (there is no systematic account of the historical development of critical authority and no discussion of the institutionalization of criticism of such a scope), its material of analysis (most of the many hundred texts self-reflexively commenting on criticism that are discussed here have been so far virtually ignored) and through its results, a complex history of criticism in the 18th century that is neither reductive nor the accumulation of isolated aspects or author figures, but that probes into the very nature of the activity of criticism. The aim of this study is both to provide a thorough historical understanding of the emergence of criticism and as a consequence an understanding of the inner workings and power relations that structure criticism to this day.
Author: John Nichols