Author: Bharat TandonPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 184331391X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
Author: Bharat TandonPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 184331391X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
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.
Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory
Author: David SimpsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226759466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Why has Anglo-American culture for so long regarded "theory" with intense suspicion? In this important contribution to the history of critical theory, David Simpson argues that a nationalist myth underlies contemporary attacks on theory. Theory's antagonists, Simpson shows, invoke the same criteria of common sense and national solidarity as did the British intellectuals who rebelled against "theory" and "method" during the French Revolution. Simpson demonstrates the close association between "theory" and "method" and shows that by the mid-eighteenth century, "method" had acquired distinctly subversive associations in England. Attributed increasingly to the French and the Germans, "method" paradoxically evoked images both of inhuman rationality and unbridled sentimentality; in either incarnation, it was seen as a threat to what was claimed to be authentically British. Simpson develops these paradigms in relation to feminism, the gendering of Anglo-American culture, and the emergence of literature and literary criticism as antitheoretical discourses. He then looks at the Romantic poets' response to this confining ideology of the cultural role of literature. Finally, Simpson considers postmodern theory's claims for the radical energy of nonrational or antirationalist positions. This is an essential book not only for students of the Romantic period and intellectual historians concerned with the idea of "method," but for anyone interested in the historical background of today's debates over the excesses and possibilities of "theory."
Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, to a Noble Lord
Author: John ThelwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The tracts and pamphlets [A-Fyson
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Aruna KrishnamurthyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Sober Reflections on the Seditions and Inflammatory Letter of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, Addressed to the Serious Consideration of His Fellow Citizens
Author: John ThelwallBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, to a Noble Lord. Addressed to the Serious Consideration of His Fellow Citizens, by John Thelwall. Second Edition
Author: JOHN. THELWALLPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379672982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T048479 Edition statement from half-title. London: printed for H. D. Symonds, 1796. [4],116p.; 8°