Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous and autobiographical pieces, fragments and marginalia
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous and autobiographical pieces, fragments and marginalia
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous & autobiographical pieces
Author: Jonathan SwiftEighteenth-century Contexts
Author: Howard D. WeinbrotPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299174804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, 18th-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women's novels of the 18th century.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Index, the prose works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftLetters and the Body, 1700–1830
Author: Sarah GoldsmithPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000896528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This research includes personal letters exchanged among family and friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs. Part I explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body, the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter writers and the means through which these imagined sensations were conveyed. Part II examines the letter as a material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters. Part III focuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a ‘body politic’. This interdisciplinary volume centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies, cultural history and literature.
Early Modern Trauma
Author: Erin PetersPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496208919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This edited collection explores what trauma—seen through an analytical lens—can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.
Enlightenment Orientalism
Author: Srinivas AravamudanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226024504
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift