Author: Jeremy TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Author: Jeremy TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Author: Katharina M. WilsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820308668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation. Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Hélisenne de Crenne, a French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the Renaissance feminist, writing both as novelist and as champion of her sex; Helene Kottanner, Austrian chambermaid to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary whose memoirs recall her daring theft of the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen for her esteemed mistress; and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, the first Englishwoman known to write a full-length work of fiction and compose a significant body of secular poetry. Offering a seldom seen counterpoint to literature written by men, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation presents prose and poetry that have never before appeared in English, as well as writings that have rarely been available to the nonspecialist. The women whose writings are included here are united by a keen awareness of the social limitations placed upon their creative potential, of the strained relationship between their gender and their work. This concern invests their writings with a distinctive voice--one that carries the echoes of a male aesthetic while boldly declaring battle against it.
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI: 1824-1838
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674484566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
One notebook contains Emerson's translations of Goethe; another is devoted to his brother Charles and includes excerpts from Charles's letters to his fiancée. A third contains an interview with a survivor of the battle of Concord and household accounts from just after Emerson's marriage to Lydia Jackson.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Publishers Circular
Author: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors living and deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature
Author: S. Austin AlliboneA Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
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