Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Dryden
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Age of Authors
Author: Paul KeenPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770484264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through an age of extraordinary change. The texts in this collection respond to a series of fundamental questions about the changing nature of the literary field during a tumultuous age: What types of writing mattered in a thriving commercial nation? What kinds of knowledge ought literature to offer, if it was to continue to be relevant? What did it mean to be an author in this busy modern world, and what sorts of social distinction should authors expect to enjoy? The Age of Authors explores the complexity, sophistication, and creativity with which the eighteenth century literary community (or “republic of letters”) responded to the challenges of the time.
History of the Female Sex
Author: Christoph MeinersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Atlantic Monthly
Author: La Belle Assemblée
Author: The Welcome Guest
Author: The Sword and Womankind
Author: Edouard de BeaumontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dueling
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Writing the Voice of Pleasure
Author: A. CallahanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0312299141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Voice of Pleasure makes a persuasive and fascinating argument that the romantic couple of Western representation is not heterosexual. Nor is it homosexual. With insightful new readings of landmarks of Western culture from Tristan and Yseut to Seinfeld , Callahan demonstrates that the illusion of heterosexuality is created by a male artist's assumption of a feminine voice to express desire. Named the 'troubadour effect' for the first time here, this tradition of male femininity in romantic writing results in a cultural model of desire best described as 'heterosexuality without women.' The most compelling aspect of the book is its attention to the effect of this paradox on women writers. Illuminating her argument with striking examples from the 'troubairitz' to Toni Morrison, the author shows how women writers inscribe their 'vagabondage,' a term she coins to name the consequences of the 'troubadour effect' for women's agency, as both writers and lovers.
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume
Author: Adam PotkayPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501732102
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History of Religion to its status in novels by Sterne, poems by Pope and Gray, and Macpherson's Poems of Ossian. Potkay explains the sense of urgency that the concept of eloquence evoked among eighteenth-century British readers, for whom it recalled Demosthenes exhorting Athenian citizens to oppose tyranny. Revived by Hume and many other writers, the concept of eloquence resonated deeply for an audience who perceived its own political community as being in danger of disintegration. Potkay also shows how, beginning in the realm of literature, the fashion of polite style began to eclipse that of political eloquence. An ethos suitable both to the family circle and to a public sphere that included women, "politeness" entailed a sublimation of passions, a "feminine modesty as opposed to "masculine" display, and a style that sought rather to placate or stabilize than to influence the course of events. For Potkay, the tension between the ideals of ancient eloquence and of modern politeness defined literary and political discourses alike between 1726 and 1770: although politeness eventually gained ascendancy, eloquence was never silenced.