Author: Felicity NussbaumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Brink of All We Hate
Author: Felicity NussbaumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Brink of All We Hate
Author: Felicity A. NussbaumPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Stratagems, what Wiles will they use for our Destruction? But that once accomplished, every opprobrious Term with which our Language so plentifully abounds, shall be bestowed on us, even by the very Villains who have wronged us"—Laetitia Pilkington, Memoirs (1748). In her scandalous Memoirs, Laetitia Pilkington spoke out against the English satires of the Restoration and eighteenth century, which employed "every opprobrious term" to chastise women. In The Brink of All We Hate, Felicity Nussbaum documents and groups those opprobrious terms in order to identify the conventions of the satires, to demonstrate how those conventions create a myth, to provide critical readings of poetic texts in the antifeminist tradition, and to draw some conclusions about the basic nature of satire. Nussbaum finds that the English tradition of antifeminist satire draws on a background that includes Hesiod, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal, as well as the more modern French tradition of La Bruyere and Boileau and the late seventeenth-century English pamphlets by Gould, Fige, and Ames. The tradition was employed by the major figures of the golden age of satire—Samuel Butler, Dryden, Swift, Addison, and Pope. Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire and exploring its uses, from the most routine to the most artful, by the various poets, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the Restoration and eighteenth century will be read anew.
Littell's Living Age
Author: Designing Women
Author: Tita ChicoPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room embodies contradictory connotations, linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet.
Elegant Extracts
Author: Vicesimus KnoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift
Author: Samira al-KhawaldehPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527504654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
How do young scholars from the Arab world interact with English literature? Is literature relevant to their life? Can it help shape their reality? Is this affiliation new, or is there a pattern? This book poses some answers to these questions and more; it is ideal for university students and young intellectuals who seek further insight into world literature and literary theory. As this book shows, strong and courageous voices from the past, voices that transcend time and space, like Swift’s, must remain alive in the departments of English and world literature in this wasteland of globalization - a world dominated by cold science, materialism, and conflict. There is need for Swift to haunt us, for his ghost to wake us to the truth. Anarchist, anti-colonialist, nay-sayer, champion of the oppressed and conscious of the plight of women, Swift is the ultimate “therapeutic ironist”; what more can a pen do?
Pope
Author: Brean S. HammondPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317890620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This collection of essays represents some of the best critical thinking on Pope in recent years. Professor Hammond examines the main issues in the debate, in particular why Pope's writing has been so resistant to modern methodologies, such as deconstruction. The essays focus on particular poems or themes and exemplify different theoretical perspectives, both traditional and modern. The editor's notes clarify the differences that exist, and what those differences can teach the student about theory in practice.
Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period
Author: Margo HendricksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135088047
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of `race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.
Author: Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander Pope