Author: John BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Unhappy Favourite: or, the Earl of Essex. A tragedy. Inverse. etc
The Unhappy Favourite; Or, the Earl of Essex, Etc
Author: John BanksThe Unhappy Favourite, Or, The Earl of Essex
Author: John BanksAugustan Studies
Author: Douglas Lane PateyPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132724
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Fifteen essay span the whole of the Augustan period (1660-1800). The volume concludes with a checklist of Ehrenpreis's published works.
The Unhappy Favourite: Or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy, Etc
Author: John BanksThe Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl of Essex
Author: John BanksThe Annals of English Drama 975-1700
Author: Sylvia Stoler WagonheimPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134676344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.
Annals of English Drama, 975-1700
Author: Alfred HarbagePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415010993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.
Genre in English Literature, 1650-1700: Transitions in Drama and Fiction
Author: Pilar Cuder-DominguezPublisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604978821
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book examines the theories and practices of narrative and drama in England between 1650 and 1700, a period that, in bridging the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, has been comparatively neglected, and on which, at the time of writing, there is a dearth of new approaches. Critical consensus over these two genres has failed to account for its main features and evolution throughout the period in at least two ways. First, most approaches omit the manifold contradictions between the practice and the theory of a genre. Writers were generally aware of working within a tradition of representation which they nevertheless often challenged, even while the theory was being drafted (e.g., by John Dryden). The ideal and the real were in unacknowledged conflict. Second, critical readings of these late Stuart texts have fitted them proactively into a neat evolutionary pattern that reached eighteenth-century genres without detours or disjunctions, or else they have oversimplified the wealth of generic conventions deployed in the period, so that to the present-day reader, for instance, Restoration drama consists only of either city comedies or Dryden's tragedies. A cursory survey of the critical history of seventeenth-century drama and fiction confirms these views. Although the 1970s and 1980s brought about a crop of interesting reassessments of the field, fiction continues to be seen as a genre that emerged in the eighteenth century. Most critics still treat earlier manifestations as marginal or as prenovelistic experiments; and in most instances it is even possible to discern a sexist bias to justify this treatment, as these works were written by women, unlike much of the canonical fiction of the eighteenth century. A revision of the critical foundations hitherto held and a re-evaluation of the works of fiction written in the seventeenth century is therefore in order. This study adopts, as a basic and essential methodological tenet, the need to decenter the analysis of Restoration fiction and drama from the traditional canon, too limited and conservative and featuring works that are not always suitable as paradigmatic instances of the literary production of the period. These studies have thus been based on a larger than usual--if not on a full--corpus of works produced within the period, and have sought to ascertain the role played in the development of each of the genres under consideration by works, topics, or even by authors hitherto somewhat outside mainstream literary criticism. This opens the field of English literature further through the framing of new questions or revising of old ones, as well as to beginning a dialogue, yet again, as to the meanings of these literary works and also to their circulation from their inception up to the present time. In addition, the rare attention given to works by women makes this all the more an important book for collections in English literature of the period.
Newgate Narratives Vol 5
Author: Gary KellyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351221256
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.