Author: Charles HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Ladies' Diary
Author: Charles HuttonThe Ladies Diary: Or, The Womens Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Author: Lynn FestaPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental texts can be made to tell a simple story about the emergence of the modern psychological self. Placed in conversation with empire, however, sentimentality invites both psychological and cultural readings of the encounter between self and other. Sentimental texts, Festa claims, enabled readers to create powerful imagined relations to distant people. Yet these emotional bonds simultaneously threatened the boundaries between self and other, civilized and savage, colonizer and colonized. Festa argues that sentimental tropes and figures allowed readers to feel for others, while maintaining the particularity of the individual self. Sentimental identification thus operated as a form of differentiation as well as consolidation. Festa contends that global reach increasingly outstripped imaginative grasp during this era. Sentimentality became an important tool for writers on empire, allowing conquest to be portrayed as commerce and scenes of violence and exploitation to be converted into displays of benevolence and pity. Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human.
Lady's and Gentleman's Diary
Author: Serials Cataloging Handbook
Author: Carol LihengPublisher: ALA Editions
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Since publication of the first edition of the Serials Cataloging Handbook, a number of major changes have occurred in the world of serials cataloging, making it more complex than ever. As a result, the definitive guide to cataloging and classifying serials has been completely updated and expanded. This thoroughly revised edition incorporates the changes in serials cataloging resulting from the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition, 1988 revision, along with the 1993 Amendments. Other changes have resulted from the LCR Rule Interpretations (LCRI) as well as enhancements to the USMARC formats, the implementation of Format Integration in 1995 (phase I) and in 1996 (phase II), and from the need to provide access to various types of electronic resources. The Serials Cataloging Handbook, Second Edition merges the new rules and interpretations into a case method and problem-centered approach to discussing situations encountered in actual serials cataloging. This comprehensive revision covers all aspects of current serials cataloging practice and methods, and all of the previous edition's sections have been updated with new examples and problems. Anyone who needs to know the latest rules on serials cataloging and how to apply them everyday, will consider the new Serials Cataloging Handbook a must-have volume.
Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Leslie RitchiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351536621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barth mon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.
The Origins of Freemasonry
Author: Margaret C. JacobPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals to world governments and religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret C. Jacob notes. But what are their origins? How has an early modern organization of bricklayers and stonemasons aroused so much public interest? In The Origins of Freemasonry, Jacob throws back the veil from a secret society that turns out not to have been very secret at all. What factors contributed to the extraordinarily rapid spread of freemasonry over the course of the eighteenth century, and why were so many of the era's most influential figures drawn to it? Using material from the archives of leading masonic libraries in Europe, Jacob examines masonic almanacs and pocket diaries to get closer to what living as a freemason might have meant on a daily basis. She explores the persistent connections between masons and nascent democratic movements, as each lodge set up a polity where an individual's standing was meant to be based on merit, rather than on birth or wealth, and she demonstrates, beyond any doubt, how active a role women played in the masonic movement.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: The Gentleman's Diary
Author: American Bibliography: 1779-1785
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description