Author: Arthur MurphyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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The Citizen. A Farce
Author: Arthur MurphyThe Citizen: a farce in two acts and in prose
Author: Arthur MurphyThe Citizen
Author: Arthur MurphyThe Citizen
Author: Arthur MurphyThe Critical Review
Author: Tobias George SmollettPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature
Author: Hunter H. GardnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192516353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. Theorists such as Susan Sontag and René Girard have observed how the rhetoric of disease frequently signals social, psychological, or political pathologies, but their observations have rarely been applied to Latin literary practices. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature explores how the origins and spread of outbreaks described by Roman writers enact a drama in which the concerns of the individual must be weighed against those of the collective, staged in an environment signalling both reversion to a pre-historic Golden Age and the devastation characteristic of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Such innovations in Latin literature have impacted representations as diverse as Carlo Coppola's paintings of a seventeenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Naples and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. Understanding why Latin writers developed these tropes for articulating contagious disease and imbuing them with meaning for the collapse of the Roman body politic allows us to clarify what more recent disease discourses mean both for their creators and for the populations they afflict in contemporary media.
Arthur Murphy
Author: John Pike EmeryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151281573X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A biography of one of the most popular dramatist of his day, friend of Fielding, Dr. Johnson, David Garrick, and the Thrales.
The Citizen
Author: Arthur MurphyThe Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald Vol 1
Author: Ben P RobertsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000748804
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An energetic woman, Inchbald achieved fame as an actress, novelist, playwright and critic. This work includes her eleven surviving diaries, which record Inchbald's social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs such as the Napoleonic Wars and the trial of Queen Caroline.
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